A light and hot day, experience and local knowledge a must!

Excellent conditions for the second day of the 2025 Soling World Championship. The day started with a postponement on land which gave many teams the opportunity to ask for the wonderful staff at the club for their lunch. The break didn’t last long and by 1230 the IRO Odecio Adam called the fleet to the racecourse. A clear start with a wind coming initially from 170 degrees but not more than 10 knots, saw boats in the left starting well but all, USA 853 (Collins, Celedoni and Siegel) who se ...  read more

Fantastic sailing at the Pedra Redonda racecourse.

After a morning full of meetings related to the class, all competitors went to the racecourse once the race committee gave the authorization. An amazing weather was waiting for the sailors, not super-hot, not cold, winds above the 13 knots reaching to 17 knots, coming from south with oscillations that the top local hotshots knew about. BRA 86 Cicero Hartmann, Frederico Sidou and Regis Silva empowered during the day claimed the two bullets sailing the races managed by the IRO Odecio Adam who ...  read more

Practice race at the 2025 Soling World Championship

With great weather and atypical, fantastic breeze from northwest moving to west at 13 to 16 knots, best way to start the championship in Porto Alegre Brazil, a three lap course (ISA nr.3) was set and race started without anyone being so anxious to cross the line early. The boats on the left granted a great start, moving ahead at the first mark, BRA 78 Nelson ilha, Manfredo Floricke and Leonardo Mayrhofer where the first to round followed by HUN 11 ( Process Solutions ) sailed by Litkey Farkas ...  read more

The Dolphin regatta at Milwaukee

Some say sailboat racing is in decline. While there are plenty of signs that this may be true there are also others that say that it is not. One of these positive signs is an annual regatta called The Dolphin held in Milwaukee that just concluded its 28th consecutive running on October 5, 2025. The Dolphin is primarily a Soling event organized by the Milwaukee Bay Soling Fleet but with other fleets/boats invited. Traditionally it has also included 470s with local legends like Doug Drak ...  read more

World Championship is around the corner

The Yacht Club Veleiros do Sul a traditional institution in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazi finishes all the details for the 2025 World Championship. The club which could be the envy to most other Yacht Clubs around the world has in its heritage the 100% focus on Sailing, where power boats are rarely seen, mainly used for club tasks purposes, it counts with an entire marine business inside the club that would allow any member to re-build its boat and or create new ones. The expected World Champi ...  read more

Pacific Coast Championship great turn out

The Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego once more hosted the traditional PCC event in the US. 12 teams took the chance to sail the typical weather in the west coast, with lumpy seas, always enough wind and for sure much fun, top four finishers granted all the bullets of 8 races raced, only the winner of the event managed to never be outside the top 5 finishers on each race. The winners were the international South Americans members of the MBYC now longtime residents in San Diego , Claudio Fa ...  read more

CAN 225 Canadian Champions in 2025

At his home waters, Peter Hall sailing with his son William Hall and Antoine Paccarar once more became the Canadian Champion after sailing a perfect last day of racing achieving 4 bullets to compensate a slow start that had CAN 230 sailed by Ross Findlater, John McNeil and Gord Devries as protagonist earlier in the series achieving the remaining bullets of the event. Following the team CAN 230 with origins at BQYC at the Ontario area, it was CAN 233 all the way from Port Stanley in Lake E ...  read more