Richardson, Sloane and Ryan British champions in 2024

Not far from Nessie's hidden place ... At Fort William, heart of the Scotish Soling fleet and after a month of wind and rain the weekend dawned bright and sunny but without any wind. it was a lengthy wait before the race officer was able to lay a short windward/leeward course. However, four close races were achieved before the strenthening tide and failing wind called halt at the first racing day during the British Nationals. All the sailors and supporters gathered on Saturday evening ...  read more

2024 Class Survey

Sailors The International Soling Association Executive Committee, in an effort to better understand the thinking and concerns of Soling Class racing members, travelers, and crucial friends of the Class, launches the attached survey for all interested sailors and members. In tests, the survey required up to 12 minutes when fully answered. You will find that there are sections of the survey where you will be able to skip forward, if desired. We attempted to make this a rewarding experie ...  read more

Need your membership card?

The busiest part of season for the Soling class will start and many may need their membership cards. a) Make sure payment to your National Soling Association was made b) Make sure your National Soling Association communicated to the ISA that the payment was made c) Download the cards to offer it at the registration desk: - First login at www.soling.com - The login button becomes a profile button, click on it - The new window will show some  ...  read more

Dietzel, Zeileis and Seydl winners at the Alpen Cup

The Solings had their weekend at the Italian Alps, Lake Rescia (Reschensee) for the already traditional Alpen Cup organized by the SVR. The lake which water level depends on previous winter snow fall, and water needs down in the stream makes it an interesting venue where boats aren’t moored but placed at buoys “closer” to the club facilities. Saturday July 28 the racing started around 11 in the morning right after the thermal breeze from the south came in, not a strong one from 7 to 15 k ...  read more

HUN 11 Process Solutions & the 5^th title

Farkas Litkey, Karoly Vezer, Kristoff Wossala are the new Soling World Champions, in a memorable fleet with level and trajectory. The team placed high their Process Solutions HUN 11 winning the title for Farkas the fifth (2013,2015,2017,2019) and now for the first time in an even year. The title came with a great flavor, in a difficult fleet with so many talented sailors including Olympic, World & European Champions, like Farkas himself (OG Finn Class - 1996), or Anders Ostre Ped ...  read more

Strong winds at the third racing day

Hanko presented a great racing day, even when sun was not in the list, it came out together with the wind, and rolling swell. Two races were held, a few boats could not finish, others decided to not compete. After the day ended a discard started to count in the overall results, shaking the one. At the first race team Equilibrium BRA 78 sailed by class president Nelson Ilha, Manfredo Floricke and Leonardo Maryhofer took the bullet, they were followed by Process Solutions team HUN 11 with  ...  read more

Light winds at the second day of racing

Local knowledge was a key factor at this beautiful Norwegian summer day, two races were accomplished by the race officer Nina Myhre in which the last one was shortened at the upwind beat. The Olympic sailor in 1984 Dag Usterud sailing with Torgeir Pedersen and Terje Sorteberg in their recently acquired NOR 66 showed all cards and obtained two bullets in the day, catapulting them to lead overall. It was real difficult sailing where gains and losses were clear only after each rounding and  ...  read more