Things got spicy at the top places of the 2026 Worlds

Fourth racing day started slow, 2 to 3 knots not fully covering the lake, sailors were waiting at the harbor, after 3hs and a half finally AP was down with a 5 to 8 knots of wind from Southwest, all the waiting time was not so bad thinking on all the sailors who spent a late evening the day before at the Vitorlas Restaurant enjoying the Jammer Borbirtok wines and the famous Hungarian cuisine. During the waiting it was time for the Race Office too work hard publishing the craning out proce ...  read more

Berliners masterpiece at Balaton

Light winds on the third racing day, around 6 to 9 knots oscillating from the south to southwest. The race committee went to the racecourse while sailors were preparing their boats. Like sailing at home in the Mugelsee located in Berlin the experience at lake sailing and soft conditions also did play well for GER 339 helmed by Donald Lippertt sailing with Tim Giesecke and Sven Rikwald at the first race of the day taking their 4th bullet at the Worlds. The local club representative HUN 1 h ...  read more

Team Carioba BRA 73 , almost perfect day

After a shifty and super strong winds on first racing day, the Race Committee headed by Bence Karpati went out to the Lake with already 12 to 15 knots coming from Southwest, it was a sunny day, super cold, the gusts reached 20 knots, making an unforgettable sailing day for the class. While boats were sailing out the race office headed by Petra Koleda was already updating the results, after HUN 1 helmed by Sandor Varjas sailing with Gabor Meretei and Laszlo Kovasci retired from race no 1, an ...  read more

Racing started at Balaton

This morning with heavy wind conditions 25+knots, the Solings headed out to the racecourse, all those who had issues the day before could solve them yesterday and were ready to roll, due to the wind a few decided to stay and wait for a wind decrease. Meanwhile the teams were on their way out the BYC harbor master were busy moving trailers to the parking zone. The first race already had a team way too anxious for sailing, UKR 2 helmed by Dmitry Yarovyy sailing with Roman Marchenko and Yevg ...  read more

Inspection is over, time for the Opening after some sailing.

Today the Technical Committee finished inspecting the boats, many boats presented different things to solve before the competition, from boats that were light to mast tips also being light, sails without sail labels, outside the proper dimension, etc. A warning and the reason the inspection process exists, but when done ensures the fairness of the game amongst the competitors in a class that at the end it will matter the sailing knowledge and teamwork of the crew giving all teams the chance to a ...  read more

First day of Inspection at the Soling Worlds

The Technical team and volunteers from the BYC have done an exhaustive job on Saturday a preparation day and today the first official inspection day. In a single indoors area located about 2km away from the Yacht Club, everything is set at perfect conditions to fully inspect the Solings taking part at the World Championship, a crane waits outside to splash the beauty in the water. The progress was amazing despite some confusion where to go next, where to drop the boat in the water, w ...  read more

Soling World Championship starts tomorrow?

The Balatonfured Yacht Club, 2026 Soling World Championship organizer didn’t expect the rush of Sailors arriving earlier to the event. Saturday was scheduled by them to be a day to prepare everything for a deep inspection to be made into approximately half of the fleet that will be seeking to obtain not only the approval to compete at the event, but also the ByPass ticket that will exonerate them of deep inspections for a 5 year period. The other half of the fleet will be using their ByPass ri ...  read more