Ib Andersen is back! For a day at the Madrid Gold cup

The Spanish fleet is facing the end of the season, missing only one next weekend of races, it had this last weekend another close racing at Madrid Gold cup series held since February. Too many teams fighting for the victory are left for the last weekend that will conclude on November 20 at the Trofeo Capitan. Saturday November 6th started with a fabulous wind forecast, 18 knots sustained and some gusts over the 25. The biggest news of the weekend was that for just a day the famous  ...  read more      

Entries at Boterletter are open, the last ranked event in Europe

Boterletter dialog heard outside Rotterdam, just after the entry was opened. Peter: Hi Jack, do you know that the Boterletter entry has opened? Jack: What is it that time of the year again? Peter: Yes, and it promised to be a fantastic event this year in Rotterdam on 27 & 28 of November! Jack: You must be kidding, In Rotterdam on Lake Kralingen the only heated regatta venue in the World? Peter: Absolutely and as always, the Soling will be participating ...  read more

USA 845 Baum, Bailey and Lennie new Chesapeake Fall Bowl Champions

It was not a very scary Halloween Sunday on the Chesapeake for the final day of racing. Just a perfect (and slightly unusual) westerly with a fair amount of chop for the short fetch on the course at 10-15 knots provided for two perfect and highly competitive races as the results attest. Dave Baum prevailed with 2 bullets for the day and won the final tie-breaker over USA 857 Karin Olsen Campia (Eddie Trevelyan & Ales Yakutis) for his great come from behind performance for the series. But the ...  read more

Fall Soling Bowl Championship- Meltemi’s report

Thursday’s long distance race took place up the Severn River. The light winds mostly blew from the east. The downwind start began in very light air and it was important to honor all government marks, unless you wanted to push your boat off of the sandy shoals! The three boat fleet did a fine job navigating the river, rounded the island in Little Round Bay and raced up wind to the finish under a bridge span that was showing little to no current. Friday, 10/29, was a blow-out, literally. A s ...  read more

Fall Bowl Opens with a `Round The Island` Classic

SSA’s Fall Bowl opened this year with Thursday’s “fun race” - variation on the famous ICE BOWL format - a tradition for over 60 years of New Years Days' racing on the Severn River in Annapolis. Competitors start just north of the Naval Academy Bridge, go up the Severn River to a bouy mark in the middle of Round Bay, go left and round St. Helena Island — in whatever direction they choose. They started at 11:40am. At 12:50pm, boats were rounding St. Helena Island with USA 857 ...  read more

USA 782 Walton, Fotz & Perry winners at the PCC

This past weekend John Walton sailing his USA 782 together with Andy and Alex were on fire at the 2021 PCC regatta sailed out at the Mission Bay in San Diego, CA. John and team just came from sailing in Milwaukee the US Championship and finishing second at the event, being the best US team just behind the already Soling expert Canadian Peter Hall and team. The event at the bay started with the typical fluky winds, a condition that Walton has a masters’ degree but it improved over the weeke ...  read more

BRA 86 Cicero Hartmann, Frederico Sidou and Andre Renard the South American Champions

The South American championship took place past weekend at VDS located in Porto Alegre Brazil. The wind was the protagonist blowing from 15 to 32 knots, the waves were also present making it difficult for all newcomers into the class, and at the first day many repairs were necessary at the boats. On the first day only two races were sailed in which BRA 86 won both them and were followed by BRA 15 the classic boat with Carlo de Leo, Thiago Knippling and Augusto Alreiter becoming the surprise o ...  read more