Tapas, speeches, safety demonstration at the Europeans

The last day of inspection, the non-stop rain and the strong winds softened for the afternoon giving room to an emotional inaugural act of the 2026 Soling European Championship being held at Grimstad, Norway. Thomas Gjestland the member of the director board of the Grimstad Seilforening gave his emotional speech and called for a one-minute silence in honor of King Harald V the sailor king that also was the honorary president of the Soling Class and the honorary member of the Word Sailing board.  ...  read more

Inspection time at the Europeans

Monday started slow at te Grimstad fjord, a time set for 0930 in the morning ended to be 1000-1030, it reminded all about Italian moments. The good thing, no rain, not much wind, sun many times in the day, but some clouds showing that a front is coming, which will make tomorrow a worse day for doing the checkups. The parking lot for inspection area were already full of outsiders, luckily many of them with the ByPass possibility which would release the pressure from the technical committee che ...  read more

NOR 156 Pedersen, Heigberg and Ringstar crowned in Grimstad

It was a great light air day at the Grimstad fjord, the sun at its most, the last three races of the Norwegian championship were held in the racecourse outside the fjord. The wind which started Northeast and started to veer to the East more and more during the day, never had more than 10 knots, but enough to finish the Norwegian Championship with all scheduled races. At the first race twice Soling world champion GER 1 helmed by Roman Koch sailing with Bjoern Geisler and Elena Strauch took a ...  read more

Norwegian Championship a test for the Europeans

This weekend the Norwegian Championship takes place at Grimstad, and the center of activities will be the Marina Bar right in town inside the fjord with the slips at one side where the Soling will park for an entire week with a fabulous background. The Saturday had an amazing forecast, despite rain and cold arriving later in the day. Initially the international fleet who entered the Norwegian Championship with countries from Germany, Canada, Sweden and USA amongst the Norwegian head out  ...  read more

Light winds at Cospudener lake to close the Leipzig Open

GER 339 helmed by Donald Lippertt sailing with Eric Pfaff and Sven Rikwald kept their crown in the tiny lake always finding the right spot to take the shift and the wind gust, the managed to win both races of the day before the wind died. The Bayerische team GER 2 helmed by Christian Mack sailing with local help Christoph Zeidler and the night entertainer and beer specialist Leopold Berner just closed the event in fantastic performance taking two second places at both races it was not enough  ...  read more

3 races at the Leipzig Open

Fantastic sailing at the Cospudener lake, an amazing weather system, sun, enough warm at the air and water, blowing hard at the little water mirror, a sustained 14-15 knots of wind with great gusts reaching the 20s, with nice 20 degrees shifts on wind direction. The Easterly wind probably not the best option for the regatta making the course a bit short, therefore the fleet ended up sailing the L4 course (4 laps), it really squeezed all the strength of the sailors, some decided to come to the ha ...  read more

Leipzig Open underway

The youngest event of the Soling class takes shape, improving year by year. Despite a small location, the fresh and flat water, the facilities at the Cospudener lake makes the Sailors interact in a fantastic way. With the possibility to come with your own camper or to rent a small cabin right front of the harbor, which most of the sailors for this edition did it, and with an event organization committed to please the sailors offering a fantastic breakfast at the pressoway cafe , this Friday ...  read more