Zipfer Trophy the crowdest event of the year?

The Union Yacht Club Attersee (UYCAs) the host of the Soling main event in Austria is expectant they are close to be the largest Soling event for the year 2025. All this due to the strong work done by class member Ludwig Beurle that should be proud on what he has achieved in the past 19 years of partnership with his yacht club and the iconic Austrian beer brand ZIPFER, making the event so special that no one wants to miss it despite sometimes the wind abandon the sailors. The Zipfer Trophy  ...  read more

Spanish Victory at the 2025 French Nationals

The Soling named Sanbo ESP 146 leaded by Carlos Elosegui sailing with Guillermo Parodi and Tomas Peuvrel and representing the Soling Spanish class, became victorious at the French Nationals held at YCLB, La Baule from July 27 to 30. 4 days of competition where 11 races under different wind conditions from 8 to 16 knots, making the event to be technical and highly competitive. The team from Madrid displayed a solid and constant performance at the French waters, which allowed them to trap the c ...  read more

Carl Auteried obituary 1943-2025

With sadness we inform that Carl Auteried passed away this Wednesday July 23 at Mondsee in his 'newest' beloved area where the water was warmer and the winter was softer. Carl was the one behind the scenes in the SCK, he started to organize Soling European Championships at Lake Attersee since 2001 and then opened the doors for the next ones in 2011 & 2022 , all successful events that brought the attention from the local comunity helping SCK to develop their infra structure.  ...  read more

GER 339 Lippert, Giesecke and Rikwald on fire in the high Alps!

After winning the German Championship at Leipzig, the team from the VSaW Donald Lippert, Tim Giesecke and Sven Kikwald marked their presence at the Italian Championship also the Alpen Cup. Their astonishing record taking all bullets home prepare them to face the traditional Erich Hirt Preis next week at Starnbergsee with just a target ahead, occupying the kingdom throne from Bavarian windsniffer Burschi Haist and team. At Reschensee the final day at the Italian Championship had some similarit ...  read more

The Berliners on their way to the Alpen title

At Reschensee the wind this Saturday was more like it is usually a South ranging from 14-18 knots, at the beginning the right side favored stablishing the 1st race, meanwhile with the sun rotating the things started to level and by the third race no side had significant effect. GER 339 with Lippert, Giesecke and Rikwald had no contest, sailed perfectly each race achieving three bullets and shooting ahead in the leaderboard. The next fight at the races was then amongst GER 11 with Dietzel, ...  read more

Great scenary at the Italian Championship

Wonderful sun, great weather astonishing scenary with glaciers on the background welcomed the Soling teams taking part at the Italian Championship being held at Sudtirol, the event also being the Italienische Meisterschaft und Alpen cup since the lake Reschensee is located in the German speaking part of Italy. Two races were held today with 4-8 knots north wind, the one had a quite low intensity to what normally blows at the lake. The abnormal wind created extra work for the race committee ...  read more

CAN 1 Bill Abbott, Joanne Abbott and Matthew Godfrey North American Champions

The last day of the North American Championship started slow, ugly and even cold to be summer, the wind from South wouldn’t stablish with a light intensity of 4 to 6 knots, flat water. After about an hour waiting finally it started, amazingly both ends paid and three boats arrived close at the weather mark, first the Californians USA 794 Andy Folz, Josh Lippitt and Alex Yakutis showing a boost of speed, followed on same side by USA 853 Matias Collins, Peter Norman and James Watson and lose ah ...  read more