Pedersen, Heigberg and Ringstad European Champions

Grimstad delivered the tuff conditions the North Sea can offer, a weather state that menaced the event, which had 4 days of racing and only at the third one some real competition started where 3 races were held in nearly perfect conditions, the two first there were no racing, either to a heavy situation or a no breeze at all. This last day of racing delivered again challenging conditions, but the race committee managed to achieve a full complete race to validate the championship starting the  ...  read more

Fantastic sailing at the Europeans

A bit too much to be called champagne sailing and probably sometimes missing some sun, but it was almost there, three races were achieved with duration of approximate hour and 10 min. The wind from 230-240 degrees initially around 15 knots then gusts came to end reaching 20 knots at some spots, the downed to the left was always a nice ride in the surfing waves of about a meter, the gate at the bottom mark with not enough separation pushing into a congestion some times. NOR 156 helmed by An ...  read more

Cold, gray, rainy and no races achieved at the Europeans

After 6 hours of waiting at the offshore race course, a race attempt that was abandoned after only 4 boats rounded the offset mark and the other 19 tried to round the windward mark all together, the day of racing was aborted, but usually as it never fails, an hour later the boats are in their slips, the wind comes nicely. The only upwind sailed saw happy FRA 208 helmed by Marc Lefevre sailing with Karine Filmon and Francois Gombeaud round the mark first and behind GER 1 helmed by Roman Koch s ...  read more

No racing at the first day at the Europeans

Strong winds, heavy seas but a fantastic sun and actually some sail to all boats who initially went out after the briefing morning. At the outside course the Race Committee vessel started to set the course but they were not confident with the reefs and shallows close to the starting area, something sailors in such situation would have to deal with but due to the safety they decided to move to the inside the fjord race course, all teams had that sail through puffy gusts, some quite extremes. T ...  read more

Tapas, speeches, safety demonstration at the Europeans

The last day of inspection, the non-stop rain and the strong winds softened for the afternoon giving room to an emotional inaugural act of the 2026 Soling European Championship being held at Grimstad, Norway. Thomas Gjestland the member of the director board of the Grimstad Seilforening gave his emotional speech and called for a one-minute silence in honor of King Harald V the sailor king that also was the honorary president of the Soling Class and the honorary member of the Word Sailing board.  ...  read more

Inspection time at the Europeans

Monday started slow at te Grimstad fjord, a time set for 0930 in the morning ended to be 1000-1030, it reminded all about Italian moments. The good thing, no rain, not much wind, sun many times in the day, but some clouds showing that a front is coming, which will make tomorrow a worse day for doing the checkups. The parking lot for inspection area were already full of outsiders, luckily many of them with the ByPass possibility which would release the pressure from the technical committee che ...  read more

NOR 156 Pedersen, Heigberg and Ringstar crowned in Grimstad

It was a great light air day at the Grimstad fjord, the sun at its most, the last three races of the Norwegian championship were held in the racecourse outside the fjord. The wind which started Northeast and started to veer to the East more and more during the day, never had more than 10 knots, but enough to finish the Norwegian Championship with all scheduled races. At the first race twice Soling world champion GER 1 helmed by Roman Koch sailing with Bjoern Geisler and Elena Strauch took a ...  read more