Nouvellon, Rousseau and Montoriol the new French Champions

The French Open Championship was held at the Yacht Club La Baule the past days in conjunction with the classic Voiles de Legendes sailing week. 10 Solings accepted the challenge to sail at the same waters where Dragons & Classic boats yearly contest this traditional trophy, a show of French sailing tradition where the 2022 edition had 4 of Tabarly boats competing, the famous Pend Duicks. Amongst the 9 French boats a Dutch team defending their title obtained in 2021, NED 33 with Rudy Den Out ...  read more

Eight Races in the Whispering Winds of Wilmette:

On the North Side of Chicago and just 100 miles from the Milwaukee Yacht Club, 2023 World’s Host, Wilmette Harbor is a picture-perfect sailing venue on the “Fresh Coast”. Being late summer the winds trend lighter and the shallower waters of southern Lake Michigan warm quickly. Much to the delight of middle and foredeck crewman over the side, this sometimes has the downside of preventing strong thermal breezes from developing. This Race Weekend threatened even worse, with the Thursday forec ...  read more

GER 2 Mack, Fabry and Lobmann the new Erich Hirt Preis winners

Starnberg like no other time provided an amazing sailing condition to the 13 teams attending the traditional Bavarian event hosted by the Bayerische Yacht Club. The first day with the typical conditions fluky winds, holes, patchy and shifts driving crazy the teams in which the race officer Eberhard Fischer-Brandies pull out three races from his sleeve, like a magician. A day that the winning team had two bullets but also an eleven, it was the perfect day for the Berliner team GER 323 leaded by  ...  read more

Vittorio Porta Trophy - Match Race event

The 14th Porta Trophy organized by AVAS in Match Race formula  was held on 23 and 24 July in the waters overlooking Lovere (Lake Iseo). The four crews confronted each other over the two days with the Round Robin formula, combining the spectacularity of the event, organized in the water mirror in front of the Lovere promenade, with great fun for the participants. In the finals held on Sunday, the AVAS crew composed of Michele Campagnoni, Davide Arata and Simone Campagnoni preceded the mixe ...  read more

2022 British Soling Championship - Rutland Water Sailing Club, UK

Because the small number of Solings this year, four boats, the HUNTER Formula 1 fleet at Rutland Water offered to join the Solings to make it to make it a larger/more viable event which was much appreciated. The UK’s Soling and Formula 1 fleets have paired up before very successfully. Of the four Solings that assembled for the 2022 British Championship, one boat was local (IRL3), two boats (GBR155 and GBR144) were from Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club on the northwest coast of England and  ...  read more

Finally the new Soling release

Quite a long time ago, Roman Koch came to me to discuss the possibility of building Solings with a new material: vinylester. He bought the moulds from Petticrows Ldt. in the UK, who ended their production of Solings recently. It took an amount of time and effort to get the container down to Germany. Finally I got the moulds, took all the stuff out and we tried to sort everything out. Unfortunately, the moulds had been in a disastrous condition (inside osmosis, scratches and so on...). Lots  ...  read more

French Soling Nationals at La Baule

French Nationals to be held together with the 'Voiles de Légende' a large fleet of classic boats that race out in the Atlantic Ocean and in 2022 including 4 famous Pen Duicks boats where Erik Tabarly a French sailing heroe used in his Atlatntic crossings and record attempts., all of them meeting at the Yacht Club de La Baule for three days of regattas, good social gathering and the excellent sea food. The Solings once more present at the week will have again another international ...  read more