USA 782 Walton, Fotz & Perry winners at the PCC

This past weekend John Walton sailing his USA 782 together with Andy and Alex were on fire at the 2021 PCC regatta sailed out at the Mission Bay in San Diego, CA. John and team just came from sailing in Milwaukee the US Championship and finishing second at the event, being the best US team just behind the already Soling expert Canadian Peter Hall and team. The event at the bay started with the typical fluky winds, a condition that Walton has a masters’ degree but it improved over the weeke ...  read more

BRA 86 Cicero Hartmann, Frederico Sidou and Andre Renard the South American Champions

The South American championship took place past weekend at VDS located in Porto Alegre Brazil. The wind was the protagonist blowing from 15 to 32 knots, the waves were also present making it difficult for all newcomers into the class, and at the first day many repairs were necessary at the boats. On the first day only two races were sailed in which BRA 86 won both them and were followed by BRA 15 the classic boat with Carlo de Leo, Thiago Knippling and Augusto Alreiter becoming the surprise o ...  read more

The Soling 40 years at the Boterletter!

This year the Boterletter will be sailed on November 27 & 28. The entry opens on October 30 on manage2sail. The entry fee will be until November 13 €52,50 for the Soling after that date the fee will be €62.50. Besides the prizes for the series each competitor will receive his personal Boterletter. This event will count for the ranking list with factor 1.2. Besides Solings from the Netherlands several German and French boats are expected. On Saturday November 27 a dinner will be ...  read more

CAN 225 Peter Hall, William Hall and Scott McNeil Canadian Champions

Canada after two years, held its first Soling event this past weekend at the Royal Saint Laurence Yacht Club, despite the fleet still being cautious about traveling, teams from USA (832) Ashley Henderson, Mark Keast and John Bayldon and CAN 236 from Nova Scotia with Bill Haliburton, Keith Davidson and Terry Booth hit the road to sail in Montreal. Sailors eager to sail faced a fabulous wind on Saturday with peaks of 20 knots and a much lighter situation on Sunday, Saturday went in vain, allowi ...  read more

Soling Fall Bowl invitation

The SSA Chesapeake Soling Fleet would like to invite you to the 2021 Fall Soling Bowl Regatta at Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Maryland, October 28th through October 31st. The Chesapeake Fall Soling Bowl was first held in 1969 and was won by our illustrious Stuart Walker. Since then, the Fall Bowl has been held almost every year. There are many well-known sailors who have won the original silver bowl, including past Olympic Medalists: Buddy Melges, Hans Fogh, Don Cohan, Jim Brady ...  read more

NED 33 Rudy den Outer, Theo de Lange and Ramzi Souli European Champions

The last day of the Europeans, the solid lead of NED 33 was known difficult to be broken, and the weather helped even more, a typical Dutch day gray, no wind, cold morning, and a light rain made all sailors know in advance that orange’s day would be. Many teams anxious to go out and give at least one more sail at the beautiful Como Lake which really didn’t show its wind potential during the event. Nothing came in, sometimes a breeze of 2 knots made more than one stand up and look around ...  read more

A long day in the water at the Europeans

With no racing on the second day of the event, teams had no time to be bored, at the morning with AP hoisted, the ISA started its annual meetings, first the AGM and then the ACM, the one at some point had a call for a brake at noon time when everyone thought we would go out for sailing, but it was a false alarm. After the meetings were adjourned with nice weather and time ahead a quick move from Alberto de Amicis, crew and friends which did an extensive and fast shopping at the super market  ...  read more