Extreme weather at the last weekend of the State Championship

After the Worlds held in La Baule, in which two Brazilian teams attended, the VDS, the traditional Yacht Club first started honoring their team BRA 78 with Nelson Ilha, Manfredo Floricke and Cuca Ilha who achieved a second place in France with a nice dinner and then the two subsequent weekends the competition amongst the strong Brazilian fleet was on again. The first weekend with medium to light winds and 5 races achieved by the RO Odecio Adam, had former 2007 World champions BRA 73 with Ge ...  read more

HUN 11 World Champion at his Odd Numbers

The 2019 Soling World Championship finally conclude once more with great winds from the SouthWest, just a bit more rain that gave a rest in the afternoon allowing for a relaxing prize giving ceremony after a controlled chaos while lifting the fleet out of the water. Litkey Farkas, Kristoff Joo and Peter Nemeth from team HUN 11 were crowned World Champions the fourth time to Farkas (13,15,17,19) after the last race placing during the day a 7th and a second enough to keep the lead ahead BRA 78 ...  read more

Team HUN 11 takes control

With winds from 23-28 knots from the North-West today and rolling one meter waves from the West, the first race of the day was dry however rain arrived for the second race impairing visibility. It was a difficult day for most of the boats either due to lack of maintenance or just failures. It has been a long time since the Soling class had two broken masts in a regatta, along with shrouds, vangs, and other failures. Team HUN 11 didn’t have their best start, they were not at favourable pin  ...  read more

Nine countries at the top 10 after the third day racing.

Team HUN 11 leads the championship with all results at the top 5 but it follows BRA 78 and CAN 225 who had a great day today in much lighter winds but ugly rain. Despite a bad forecast with strong winds, that have gone over the night, only the soft rain remained, the wind initially was from Northwest and then moved to the West and the intensity varied from 7 to 11 knots. The first race boats that started at the pin end and tacked early like CAN 225 got the lead early over those who opted t ...  read more

Strong winds at La Baule

Despite the sun came out at the bay, the wind marked its presence blowing hard from the west quite constant with little oscilations, on top of that a crossing swell of about 0.8mts from the Southwest. All teams sailed out but a couple ended coming back early to fix equipment failure, the teams got lucky with the weather that allowed all sort of maintenance on the harbor before the end of day. The first race, a group of boats started well on the left, but just some tacked in the right mom ...  read more

La Baule Soling Worlds 2019 two races in

The day started with overcast skies and 15 knots from the southwest as the teams prepred in the channel at La Baule. Slowing as the jetties emptied and the boats headed for the racaecourse the wind increased a little. As the first race commenced, CAN 225 had a good start at the pin end with USA 853 tacking off on port at the committee boat end. Up the first windward leg BRA 78 and ARG 32 looking good in the middle of the course. As the boats piled in to the first windward mark it was CAN ...  read more

Last Inspection day at the Worlds

Practice turned into a drag race at the last inspection day during the 2019 Soling World Championship. The day didn’t turn into an ugly one as forecasted but it was a champagne sailing with sun included and a starting wind from SouthWest that quickly developed into a Westerly one, the Race Committee without changes had then a one tack upwind, and a reaching back to the mark. Some boats decided to go back after one round to enjoy what could be the last sun of the week with ni ...  read more