Racing started at Balaton

This morning with heavy wind conditions 25+knots, the Solings headed out to the racecourse, all those who had issues the day before could solve them yesterday and were ready to roll, due to the wind a few decided to stay and wait for a wind decrease. Meanwhile the teams were on their way out the BYC harbor master were busy moving trailers to the parking zone. The first race already had a team way too anxious for sailing, UKR 2 helmed by Dmitry Yarovyy sailing with Roman Marchenko and Yevg ...  read more

Inspection is over, time for the Opening after some sailing.

Today the Technical Committee finished inspecting the boats, many boats presented different things to solve before the competition, from boats that were light to mast tips also being light, sails without sail labels, outside the proper dimension, etc. A warning and the reason the inspection process exists, but when done ensures the fairness of the game amongst the competitors in a class that at the end it will matter the sailing knowledge and teamwork of the crew giving all teams the chance to a ...  read more

First day of Inspection at the Soling Worlds

The Technical team and volunteers from the BYC have done an exhaustive job on Saturday a preparation day and today the first official inspection day. In a single indoors area located about 2km away from the Yacht Club, everything is set at perfect conditions to fully inspect the Solings taking part at the World Championship, a crane waits outside to splash the beauty in the water. The progress was amazing despite some confusion where to go next, where to drop the boat in the water, w ...  read more

Soling World Championship starts tomorrow?

The Balatonfured Yacht Club, 2026 Soling World Championship organizer didn’t expect the rush of Sailors arriving earlier to the event. Saturday was scheduled by them to be a day to prepare everything for a deep inspection to be made into approximately half of the fleet that will be seeking to obtain not only the approval to compete at the event, but also the ByPass ticket that will exonerate them of deep inspections for a 5 year period. The other half of the fleet will be using their ByPass ri ...  read more

Busy weekend world wide at the Soling Class

Past weekend was busy one for the Soling Class, where there were racing in four different countries such as Norway, USA, Brasil and Argentina. 4 races were raced in Brasil with great winds and good media footage distributed at the Instagram, in Argentina the wind ruled by its absence but 5 races were held in a range of 5 to 8 kots of wind, the weather in Annapolis, USA had a glance of spring time for Saturday but a leftover from winter on Sunday where temperatures dropped into the zeros,  ...  read more

2026 US Championship - Mission Bay Delivers Classic and Challenging Conditions

The 2026 U.S. Soling Championship brought together a competitive fleet of 14 boats, with teams traveling from Maryland, Canada, Texas, Hawaii, and California for three days of racing in the Pacific Ocean off Mission Bay, San Diego from April 10 to 12. Hosted by Mission Bay Yacht Club, the regatta delivered a wide range of conditions. Friday and Saturday featured classic San Diego light westerlies, while Sunday introduced unstable weather, including squalls, shifting breeze, and highly variab ...  read more

2026 Soling World Championship on Lake Balaton, Entry Now Open

The International Soling community is warmly invited to enter the 2026 Soling World Championship, to be hosted by Balatonfüredi Yacht Club on Hungary’s Lake Balaton from May 10th to 16th, 2026. Online entry and all event information are now available on the championship minisite. Entries for the 2026 Soling World Championship are now open through the official event minisite hosted by Balatonfüredi Yacht Club. Sailors will find the Notice of Race, schedule, local information, and  ...  read more