Peter Hall grabs Fall Bowl and heads North

Severn Sailing Association’s traditional Fall Soling Bowl took place on the Chesapeake Bay, in Annapolis, Maryland, this past Saturday/Sunday October 28-29. Nine boats competed with 8 local Chesapeake Soling Fleet sailors; Peter Hall traveled from Montreal, Quebec to continue support the event as an international venue for the Soling Class. Four races of the five races planned were sailed — 3 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. Exceptionally mild warm weather and light breezes presented fun b ...  read more

French Open at Angers

Fantastic sailing on the Maine this weekend in Angers for the national Soling. No less than 13 boats including two crews from La Baule, two crews from Paris, and especially our friend Bramy the Dutchman, were ready to do battle on this playground in the heart of the city. From the outset, it was François GOMBEAUD, Christian DOUSSET and Jean Christophe MOUILLE who did well, ahead of Patrick GODEST and Claude LEGOND, from Paris, on a FOUNTAINE PAJOT from 1979, in this first race with such cap ...  read more

BRA 73 Kadu Bergenthal, Vilnei Goldmeier and Edgard Opptiz, 2023 World Champions

Fantastic last day of racing for the Soling Worlds in Milwaukee, with a nice Sun shining, wind from Southwest 10 to 13 knots. Two more races held by RO Russ Sobota and his staff completing all 10 scheduled races for the championship. Brazil took it all, with team Campos, SSquadrias leaded by Kadu with the Young Vilnei and Edgard sailing ICO BRA 73 managing to finish second behind CAN 1 with Bill Abbott, Joanne Abbott and Andrew Macrae at the first race after climbing from fourth place passing ...  read more

Close to a perfect day at the Soling Worlds in Milwaukee

A day where the shy sun ticketed its presence, the wind built from the Southwest quite stable with some high and lows, and the waves were not that a big factor. The early start was just in time, with the first warning signal at 1100hs , GER 1 with Roman Koch, Alex Hasenclever and Joe Brase taking an early lead at the weather mark, followed close by a pack of boats including BRA 73 with Kadu Bergental, Vilnei Goldmeier and Edgard Opptiz on the left side of the course, with a good start took a ...  read more

No racing on third day at the Soling Worlds

A lumpy day with rain menace, no wind, fogh in the morning, conflictive super light breezes, prevented any kind of racing, but boats were at Lake Michigan, many crew members were contesting the best snoring of the lake. After about 2hs waiting, a shy sun appeared, the fog went away and the lake became a mirror, boats were towed inside, the sailors grabbed a beer and many attended the ISA annual meetings as observers. By the afternoon the one was concluded, and each team has their programs.  ...  read more

Great sailing day at the Worlds, three races

Despite the morning didn’t promise much with some possible showers, 4 different forecasts, light wind at the club, Russ Sobota the RO at 1200 initiated the countdown start sequence of the first race of the day. This race with many incidents and two new holes in different hulls had the first one at the starting sequence when USA 834 on port ran into USA 853 on starboard slowly sailing close to the RC vessel to catch the gun time. A big hole, that had to be patched in less than 4 min with Duct  ...  read more

Brazilians lead the 2023 Worlds in Milwaukee

Today despite the clouds and light rain, sailors after their club breakfast and then the traditional skippers meeting conducted by the RO Russ Sobota, at 1200hs the first warning signal finally happened, the fleets ended split in two, some choosing the right side and others the left in a lumpy wind from Southwest from 5 to 10 knots of wind. By the first mark it was clear that the left side paid big, and getting out of the trouble for those in the left were quite difficult, but not an impossible ...  read more