3 races at the Leipzig Open

Fantastic sailing at the Cospudener lake, an amazing weather system, sun, enough warm at the air and water, blowing hard at the little water mirror, a sustained 14-15 knots of wind with great gusts reaching the 20s, with nice 20 degrees shifts on wind direction. The Easterly wind probably not the best option for the regatta making the course a bit short, therefore the fleet ended up sailing the L4 course (4 laps), it really squeezed all the strength of the sailors, some decided to come to the ha ...  read more

Leipzig Open underway

The youngest event of the Soling class takes shape, improving year by year. Despite a small location, the fresh and flat water, the facilities at the Cospudener lake makes the Sailors interact in a fantastic way. With the possibility to come with your own camper or to rent a small cabin right front of the harbor, which most of the sailors for this edition did it, and with an event organization committed to please the sailors offering a fantastic breakfast at the pressoway cafe , this Friday ...  read more

Busy weekend at the Soling Class – CAN, GBR & BRA

With three national events in three different continents, this past weekend had an unusual activity at the Soling Class. In Montreal the Canadian Championship was held at the Royal Saint Laurence Yacht Club, at Fort William, Scotland the British Nationals took place and in Porto Alegre, Brazil the Brazilian Championship. In Canada the weather was good, the wind on Saturday started with a 8 to 10 knots, four races were held and in the last ones the wind increased to 16 to 18 knots. On S ...  read more

His Majesty King Harald V of Norway 1937 – 2026

The International Soling Association (ISA) mourns the passing of our Honorary president, His Majesty King Harald. The ISA sends its condolences and best wishes to Her Majesty Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon, the Norwegian Royal family and the people of Norway. The King had a remarkable sailing career on and off the race course. He participated in in three consecutive Olympic Games sailing in the 5.5 meter class in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico (1968). He finished 10th at the Munich Olympics ( ...  read more

GER 339 crowned after 8 races at the Zipfer Trophy

The last two races to complete the series finally saw a light and shifty wind from the North a typical summer day at the Attersee with a shiny sun at the lake and too many clouds at the mountains, preventing the thermal breeze and therefore the rise of the Rosen wind. Anyway, teams after 1hr waiting as an time extension for the typical weiss wurst breakfast at the UYCAs restaurant and or at the Zipfer beer tent were called to the water to race their 2 last races of the series. The first o ...  read more

Fantastic sailing day at the Zipfer Trophy

Attersee opened in the morning cloudy but windy from the west, after the Leberkäse a traditional breakfast held Out oat the UYCAs terrace, the teams were sent out for some sailing, they were advised that the wind was shifty, but good, -Blondl- Schmidleitner also advised that 4 races would probably will be achieved. All races had so many shifts that cause headaches in all thinkers at the water, the main issue were that sometimes it was not only the shift but a change in wind intensity th ...  read more

Two races at the Zipfer Trophy on its first day

The traditional event held at the UYCAs on lake Attersee, sponsored by the famous Austrian beer company started with the right foot although the weather forecast didn’t promised enough. Two races were accomplished by the IRO Gert Schmidleitner, both windward / leeward courses of two laps and a mini reach to finish. The first race started with winds from 7 to 10 knots from the North – Northwesterly and the second race the wind increased up to 13 knots but it suddenly went down for r ...  read more