Warm season starts with a nice Soling weekend race

The Solings in Argentina initially scheduled to race over the multi-class event at the traditional sailing week in downtown Buenos Aires fantastically organized by the Argentine Yacht Club (YCA) decided that the full program to share with little classes was too difficult not appealing to them since the Fleet is in rebuilding moment with young incorporation new owners, etic, and none is based in downtown. 8 Solings attended to the race on Saturday and 7 on Sunday, the wind was much better than ...  read more

Hurricane Fiona strikes at the Canadians update

No Canadian Championship for 2022, Fiona's Hurricane smashed the power network around Halifax and the one was not fixed in time to make it available the crane at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron , therefore the Solings could not get into the water and go out for some exciting races on Sunday. However the club made available to all Soling teams local boats who survived the storm the day before for some informal racing during Sunday, who had nice and shifty winds and teams at least h ...  read more

HELLO SOLING SAILORS & WELCOME TO ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND!!!

The Chesapeake Soling Fleet and SSA - Severn Sailing Association, are delighted to officially welcome you, your friends and families in joining us for the 2022 Soling North American Championship Regatta, October 20 to 23. The regatta will take place at Severn Sailing Association in Historic Annapolis, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay – home of the famous Skipjack, Blue Crabs, Oysters, the United States Naval Academy, and great sailboat racing. At the close of the American Revolutionary Wa ...  read more

Felzmann, Beurle and Felzmann European Champions

The morning was cold, but the sun came out and increased quickly the temperature back to summer mode, the wind never really built, and sailors kept waiting at the SCK mooring deck. The waiting was ended at 1400hs the time limit for the last start of the 2022 Steinbach Soling European Championship. Team Steinbach AUT 7 Florian Felzmann, Stephan Beurle and Michael Felzmann were crowned the Champions with only two points ahead the also brilliant Hungarian team HUN 1 with Sandor Varjas, Laszl ...  read more

Fantastic sailing at the 2022 Steinbach Soling Europeans

A great sailing day, sun, windy much more stable than yesterday, two more races completed by the race committee at Attersee lake. The first race with clear start , most boats in first line, speed was a key, those in the middle field tacked to right, while those on the right went realy early to the right, due to speed the first pack of Solings heading to the right side saw USA 853 with Collins, Baumueller and Mueller decide to tack earlier to avoid the boat grouping, it was the perfect timing, ...  read more

Champagne sailing at Attersee on the 2022 Steinbach Soling Europeans

A fantastic day at the lake, finally the sun came out the clouds, the thermal breeze built up as forecasted after the cold and rainy night. It was a difficult wind for the sailors, some ups, and some downs, from 7 to 17 knots and shifts that sometimes were persistent ones with 20+ degrees at some point, but the major issue was always the holes of light spots. Any way a gorgeous day at the water, where Gert Schmidleitner the race committee head, managed to conclude three races all using the  ...  read more

Heavy rain and no wind at the 2022 Steinbach Soling Europeans

Sailors today only have the good memories from yesterday, the air temperature fell down considerably, the rain was at moments so heavy that even the noise at the event tent didn’t allow for a normal communication. Around 1500hs the race committee cancelled the day since forecast continue to show same situation at least until 2000hs. An announced start for race number 4 tomorrow Thursday at 1100hs with a good forecast and great chances of thermal breeze again. Please do not forget to collec ...  read more