A Night of Many Firsts

Biking to my first Soling race in the heart of Rotterdam I was remembering all that transpired to get to that point. I moved to Rotterdam less than a month ago after living and sailing in Barcelona for the past two year. Having spent a long quarantine without getting back on the water I was eager to find a place to sail in my new home. After a goggle search and a few afternoon runs I found Kralingse Plas, where the Kralingsche Zeilclub is located. This beautiful lake in the heart of the city is  ...  read more

GER 323, new names at the Erich Hirt Preis trophy

On the first weekend in August, 8 teams met at the Bayerischen Yacht Club in Starnberg to sail under the direction of Professor Dr. Eberhard Fischer-Brandies the Erich-Hirt-Preis, the oldest and as well the first German Soling regatta after the COVID-19 easing. On Friday, despite the hot weather, a shortened race could be sailed in a dying south wind. The following obligatory BBQ, "sponsored in kind" by Thomas Scherer, Andi Baumüller, Gerd Auerswald, Burschi and Irene Haist, was a gr ...  read more

2020 Race Weekend SSYC, Wilmette IL

While Covid seems to have altered every tradition, circumstances allowed Race Weekend to be held this year. Five boats competed with the Dave Baum and Dave Crysdale traveling from Milwaukee. Friday races had winds 6 to 10 out of the NE with left over 4’ rollers. Racing was notable because of non-forced errors. Race 1 had the fleet asleep as they bore off on a run directly toward the off-limits starting area. Race 2 had two leaders way out in front who somehow forgot that a ‘shorten cou ...  read more

Just another Wednesday night in the city - Netherlands

Although the small faces are singing about their “Lazy Sunday afternoon”, as per U2 it was another Sunday, where the Boomtown Rats don’t like the Monday. Lynyrd Skynyrd sings “Tuesday’s gone (with the wind)”, David Bowie got his Thursday Child. The Easybeats already got the Friday on their mind and Herman Brood Saturday Night. Leaves the Wednesday evening perfect for Soling Sailing at the Kralingse Plas (Rotterdam, waar anders dan?). Moreover, I was the lucky guy who could replace th ...  read more

2020 ISA Annual General & Committee Meeting announced

As required on ISA constitution item 5.3.5 the office announce the AGM and ACM for 2020 to be held on October 17th, date replacement of the original first scheduled past 2019 meetings on September. Due to the current world situation (COVID19) the 2020 AGM and ACM will be held for the first time virtually, it will use ZOOM (zoom.us), the scheduled time for the AGM meeting will be 1730hs UTC (1930 European time, 1430 SA time and 1330 NA time), the ACM will follow (it might require a new con ...  read more

Wednesday night series at the Solings are back in Netherlands

Last Wednesday the first real races were sailed on Lake Kralingen (Rotterdam). Since that day the 1.5m distance rule was lifted for contact sports including rowing and sailing. During the Après sail the 1.5m rule was still in force. At the start were NED 39 (the team of Ben Boogaerdt, Gerben den Hartog and Karsten Kraan), NED 38 (Bram Soethoudt, Kai Spruijt and Julian) NED 33 (Rudy den Outer, Theo de Lange and Ramzi Souli). The NED 49 was absent and on holyday in the Dutch wetlands. T ...  read more

Sanbo ESP 26 wins the Autonomic Cup at San Juan(Madrid)

The sailing community in Madrid is back in action with all the safety measures, enforcing all the protocols stablished by the General Sports Direction from the community. The Real Club Nautico de Madrid hosted the past weekend the first regatta of the season in region, after coming back to the new normality, celebrating the Autonomic Cup for the Soling class with great attendance in a fleet of 13 boats, under acceptable wind conditions in general lines which allowed to complete 4 races. T ...  read more