Tjörn Runt 2020 Double-handed
Tjörn Runt 2020 took place last weekend as usual on the 3rd Saturday of August, this year with an important change for us. Th arranging club has introduced a double-handed class, finally! Interestingly enough, 39 out of 220 competing boats participated in the double-handed class and thus, the largest startingContinue Reading
International One Design – Swedish Club Championship 2020
Last weekend I had the chance to participate to the Swedish Club Championship of International One Design class hosted by IOD flee Sweden in Almösund. I had already sailed some of these boats previously and since one team was short of bowman and spinnaker trim, I gladly jumped in atContinue Reading
8 reasons to sailboat race doublehanded
Sailors are engaging more than ever in different forms of shorthanded sailing. Partly thanks to technology that allows for increased ease of handling by smaller crews. Partly because a growing number of doublehanded classes in sail racing events. I will go through some of the reasons why I love sailboatContinue Reading
Pantaenius Bohusracet 2020
Pantaenius Bohusracet 2020 thema was light or no wind at all. We know we are underpowered upwind without the overlapping genoa for which the boat is designed, but we counted on broad reach and downwind to exploit the new light spi, which, after our Offshore training has proven itself. WeContinue Reading
Shorthanded Offshore Training
Mid-May wonderfully sunny days. Lady Godiva Sail Racing Team skippered by Anders Dahlsjö suggested a shorthanded offshore training with a pretty intense course around Kattegatt and stretching over 3 days and 3 nights. As we are planning to participate at the Vegvisir Race in late summer running the 2Star courseContinue Reading
Midsummer Solo Challenge 2020
Last week Veloce has participated Midsummer Solo Challenge 2020 along the Swedish West Coast, with start on the North side of Marstrand Island and arrival at the harbor of the same Island. The race, which in fact is not a race, but a challenge, has 5 classes and Veloce fitsContinue Reading
Foils trailing edges
I was supposed to write this earlier on this spring, however, it did not happen and now a long time due, let us view at one of the performance optimization carried on during the past winter: sharpening the trailing edges of underwater foils. The keel trailing edge comes from theContinue Reading
A complete shorthand sail inventory
After underwater race finish (part 1 part 2 and part 3) in 2019, the one priority in 2020 is to try out a new and complete shorthand sail inventory. It consists of mainsail, medium jib, heavy jib, light, all-purpose and heavy spinnakers. As main and medium/heavy jib gave up on the lastContinue Reading
Planned races 2020
Looking back at 2019, we have done great progress in preparing the boat for shorthanded sailing, in spite of a reduced sail kit (main, medium jib, spinnaker AP). Stripping loads of “un-needed” clutter paid dividends in simplicity, ease of handling and weight. Race finish bottom had a terrific impact onContinue Reading
Lesson learned 2019
1. Sailed not aggressively enough for lack of confidence. In all of the 3 of the 4 major races we have not sailed at full potential, reducing sail to avoid messing up the taking a reef when it would get airy, or not deploying appropriate downwind sail area to avoidContinue Reading