BRA 86 South American Champions

On the last day of the regatta, while boats floated just beside the beach in a form of parade the sailors at least had their swim in the famous summer resort of Punta del Este, the parade an extra for the tourists. The swim was necessary to cool down the temperature while waiting for the wind that arrived softly later, but enough to race two races, the last one shortened just before a storm coming in, causing the first planning of the event at the last downwind of the championship with up t ...  read more

Light winds in Punta, Brazil dominates

Not usual but it happens, today only just a race was held, the one with very light winds from the west/southwest with no more than 8 knots of intensity. A course set of 0.8 NM was long course, since it was not shortened, started around 1130 and by 1300hs everyone was floting around waiting for a second race, that was abandoned close to 1530hs and as usual around 1630 a nice east breeze built but sailors were already in beer mode... The only race of the day had a huge lead from BRA 86 (Hartman ...  read more

Perfect day for BRA 78 Ilha, Floricke and Ilha

In the morning strong winds from the west reaching 17 knots, the race started with a few boats over early, and by the second upwind there were a course change not observed by a few boats, which over stood the mark considerably, USA 853 almost rounded the old one… BRA 78 who took the lead at the first downwind mark never lost the one winning their first bullet even when the wind decreased strongly for the last lap after the rain was gone. BRA 86 (Hartmann, Sidou and Renard) managed to accomp ...  read more

BRA 45 Kadu, Vilnei and Chtmann on fire

An amazing first day at the 2019 South American Championship in Punta del Este being organized by the Yacht Club Punta del Este and all its glamour, the Atlantic sea merging with the Rio de la Plata exit a soft breeze from the South East, two fighting currents and an some nice rolling waves of 0.3mts all these and not a single cloud in the sky seasoned a great start in a great venue. Race Officer Bernie Knuppel a former Soling sailor and dedicated himself as race organizer together with t ...  read more

ARG 32 with Gustavo Warburg, Hernan Celedoni and Matias Roldan the Argentine champions

The past two weekends the Club Náutico San Isidro organized the Argentine Championship, managing to conduct 10 races in which the first 5 had light winds super shifty and rotating and the rest over the second weekend better and increasing intensity quite stable from the East, Southeast. ARG 32 started slowly and consolidated strong after fierce battle at the second weekend over ARG 37 with Alejandro Chometowski, Estanislao Chometowski and Facundo MacGowan (three out of six team members ...  read more

Past Soling Guides & Soling Sailing Magazines

At this moment the Communications Committee through Rudy den Outer is making progress with the inventory of all ISA publications (Soling Guides, Soling Manuals and Soling Sailing issues) since 1970 to the present. All publications will be scanned and published on www.soling.com . Some Soling Guides and Soling Sailings are already available under the publication tab (login required). Unfortunately it looks like we are missing a  ...  read more

Fall Soling Bowl 2019 at the Severn Sailing, Annapolis

The wind gods finally provided the Severn Sailing Association Fall Soling Bowl with typical fall weather which over the past few events has included no wind, fog, or blowing a gale. Saturday greeted the 8 boat fleet with a light easterly that required a short delay before heading out to sail under beautiful sunny skies with a 10 to 14 knot southerly sea breeze. In the first race, Henry Thomas (USA 852) dialed in the start at the committee boat just right. At the start, he tacked onto port and ...  read more