King Constantine II - ISA Honorary Member obituary 1940-2023

The International Soling Class sadly announces another great loss in the sailing community, King Constantine. He was an honorary member at the ISA Committee, dedicated sailor who won gold at the Dragon class in Rome 1960, deeply involved with sailing at World Sailing and the International Olympic Committee. We wish his family strength and we celebrate his life contribution to the sailing. ...  read more

Gyorgio Shaiduko obituary 1962-2023

This past Sunday Gyorgio Ivanovich Shaiduko at age 60, a Soling legend passed away. He was fantastic sailor representing his country, wining an European Championship title in 87 (Karlsham, SUE), two World Championship titles in 96 (Punta Ala, ITA) and 98(Milwaukee, USA) and the Silver Medal in Atlanta 96 at the Soling class, besides being a great Star class sailor and FD as well. The International Soling Class wishes his family strength  ...  read more

Nelson Ilha - ISA President 2023/2024

Dear Soling family! We are happy with the opportunity to give back part of what the Soling Class has provided to me and my family over all these years. In the period of 2023/2024 as president, we will dedicate time and attention to the class to continue holding the events, where we meet friends, compete, and fraternize each other. I want to thank Michael Dietzel and his team for the excellent management of the class in recent years, Peter Hall for being a mentor, and especially Matia ...  read more

Letter from the President

The Soling Class Association wishes you a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year. In 2022, we have set ourselves the primary goal of further developing the class. What is most important. We found a new Soling builder this year. The first boat has already been delivered and the next one will follow in early 2023. Our membership has increased. Many thanks to all of you who support us with your membership. In 2022 we were exempt from the rules of the Covid crisis in many regions. As a r ...  read more

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas!!

Dear Soling Sailors, 2022 comes to an end, Christmas is around the corner and a new year is approaching fast. After these past two years facing the pandemic, with all these events cancellations, finally the schedule is mainly being completed, sadly the class were not lucky and ran out of air during the World Championship held at Chiemsee but put together a magnificent European Championship with great wind conditions at lake Attersee, like the one many other events were held successfully, som ...  read more

ARG 37 Chometowski, Longarela and Longarela champions

This Saturday with a fabulous weather 4 more races were held at the `Rio de la Plata` during the 2022 Argentine Championship reaching the total races goal and including the scheduled discard, this concluded the last event of the Soling class for the year 2022, a good recovery year after the two ones under influence of covid. The first race of the day started at noon (1200) with a 7 to 12 knot breeze from the East. A group of boats despite the river stream went to the right side, and  ...  read more

Argentine Championship the event at the wind

This Friday started the 2022 Argentine Championship, the date move worked out for the class, even when the country football team move into the finals at the World Cup, condensing the racing for just Friday and Saturday, a fabulous weather condition, typical for the season time, strong winds from East – Southeast from 20+ knots, from the 11 entries only 8 boats dared to face the Friday racing, the wind gets a bit more stronger at the late afternoon, besides all working issues prevented some tea ...  read more