His Majesty King Harald V of Norway 1937 – 2026

The International Soling Association (ISA) mourns the passing of our Honorary president, His Majesty King Harald. The ISA sends its condolences and best wishes to Her Majesty Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon, the Norwegian Royal family and the people of Norway. The King had a remarkable sailing career on and off the race course. He participated in in three consecutive Olympic Games sailing in the 5.5 meter class in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico (1968). He finished 10th at the Munich Olympics ( ...  read more

GER 339 crowned after 8 races at the Zipfer Trophy

The last two races to complete the series finally saw a light and shifty wind from the North a typical summer day at the Attersee with a shiny sun at the lake and too many clouds at the mountains, preventing the thermal breeze and therefore the rise of the Rosen wind. Anyway, teams after 1hr waiting as an time extension for the typical weiss wurst breakfast at the UYCAs restaurant and or at the Zipfer beer tent were called to the water to race their 2 last races of the series. The first o ...  read more

Fantastic sailing day at the Zipfer Trophy

Attersee opened in the morning cloudy but windy from the west, after the Leberkäse a traditional breakfast held Out oat the UYCAs terrace, the teams were sent out for some sailing, they were advised that the wind was shifty, but good, -Blondl- Schmidleitner also advised that 4 races would probably will be achieved. All races had so many shifts that cause headaches in all thinkers at the water, the main issue were that sometimes it was not only the shift but a change in wind intensity th ...  read more

Two races at the Zipfer Trophy on its first day

The traditional event held at the UYCAs on lake Attersee, sponsored by the famous Austrian beer company started with the right foot although the weather forecast didn’t promised enough. Two races were accomplished by the IRO Gert Schmidleitner, both windward / leeward courses of two laps and a mini reach to finish. The first race started with winds from 7 to 10 knots from the North – Northwesterly and the second race the wind increased up to 13 knots but it suddenly went down for r ...  read more

Manac'h, Denis and Benon wins at the Voiles de Légende

It was a wonderful weekend for the 2026 edition of Les Voiles de Légende in La Baule, alongside the magnificent classic and metric yachts, a great turn out for the Solings that were able to enjoy beautiful races at La Baule Bay. This year, sunny weather and a light breeze of 6 to 14 knots made it possible to hold 11 races over three days for the nine boats in attendance. There was a fierce battle for the top spots between three local boats—FRA 198 (helmed by Jean Marie Le Guillou s ...  read more

GER 311 Geisler, Behrendt and Blum won in Starnberg

This past last weekend the traditional Erich Hirt Preis took place at the Bayerische Yacht Club at the Northern side of Lake Starnberg right at the base of the Alps in the Bavarian region of Germay. The winning team coming from Lake Eder a central region in Germany took its early lead on Friday with three bullets sailed in a light typical lake breeze from 5 to 11 knots from the west, a well-known wind in Starnberg. On Saturday due to storm only one race was sailed and won by GER 323 helmed by ...  read more

Disaster strikes the Madrid based fleet

Friday, July 24, raging wildfires in Spain continued to move towards the Spanish capital bringing more destruction. The fires moved quickly and ferociously into the Embalse de San Juan towards the yachting facilities of the Real Club Nautico de Madrid. At the same time, sailors were largely preparing for holiday traveling to potentially distant locations. Many boats were hauled out awaiting the next racing season. Sadly, 14 of 16 Solings caught fire and were destroyed as well as much of the  ...  read more