During our training in Norway before the Europeans we had a strange incident. We were out practicing training in the dark and we were caught in a fishing net.
We unfortunately got the fishing equipment in our propeller when we had ended the training and the motor stopped. The wind were around +20 knots and complete darkness. We had to contact the Norwegian sea rescue and in some 30 minutes they came to our assistance.
First they towed us into more calm waters and then took us beside their sea rescue boat and then they dived under out boat.
The diver found the problem and the fishing equipment was removed. After that we could start our engine again and everything worked. Below is the fishing gear that was removed.
This was a real adventure with a happy ending but we came to bed around 5 in the morning after a very exciting night on sea! We want to make a big thank you to the Norwegian sea rescue boat and crew that helped us, very professional and friendly – many thanks from us!
We are in Hankö, Norway for the European Championship in offshore sailing. We have been here a few days for preparations and training and today the championship was started with a tune-up race to prepare for the real races that will start tomorrow.
The tune up race today went well and we managed to win the class C ahead of a few Italia 11.98’s. Results are here. Not all boats competing in the Europeans participated so competition will increase when the real races starts but still a good tune up for us. The conditions today was very good with around 15-18 knots of wind and good weather. During our training days we have had quite a lot of rain so we hope this will improve now for next race week.
Tomorrow we will start on the long offshore race and it is calculated to take around 36 hours depending on wind. We plan to start 10 in the morning and sail all day/night and finish sometime on Tuesday.
Today the Baltic Offshore Week and Estonian and Finnish Offshore Sailing Championship ended with three inshore races in very windy conditions with 20-30 knots of wind and sunshine. We managed to continue to sail well in the windy conditions with two new race wins and one second place. Overall, during the 8 races during BOW we have had the series 1, 1, 1, (2), 1.4, 1, (2) and 1 with a total of 6.4 after two races was discarded (and offshore race had weight 1.4). All BOW Results here. Second in the regatta was Estonian Arcona Katarina 2 and in third Estonian First Amserv Toyota. Great to see two First 36.7 on the podium!
We are very happy now to also be Estonian and Finnish Champions in Offshore sailing this year in addition to the Swedish Championships we won two weekends ago.
– It was a very good and useful regatta for us with a lot of race practice in a lot of wind, especially today when we raced in around 25 knots gives a lot of new learnings and experiences, says Peter Thorwid tactician.
We want to thank the Estonian hosts for an excellent regatta and everything around the races such as courses, results, information has been excellent. We hope that we will be able to come back to BOW another year.
Finally, big thanks to Måns Håkansson for great support with weather prediction and he is an important part of our team.
Baltic Offshore Week, BOW, continued today in Tallinn with the offshore race. The course was 35 nautical miles and the rain started around when we started at 11 hours but good sailing conditions with wind and wind shifts (big right shift). We had at the start 14 knots of wind and then gradually increasing during the day topping at around 25 knots. We managed to win the race in class ORC B and now after 5 races we have the series 1, 1, 1, (2) and 1.4 with a total of 4.4 (the offshore race scored 1.4 and cannot be discarded). Estonian Katarina 2 is in second place with 9.8 and Directo in third place with 15.6. All BOW Results here.
We had great boat speed, good start and good maneuvers during the offshore race today and even if we did not take all the wind shifts perfectly we sailed relatively conservative and managed to win the race with 3 min 17 sec after a bit over 5 hours sailing. As usual we worked hard the entire race and the team had great focus and positive team spirit!
Tomorrow is the last day of BOW and the Finnish and Estonian Offshore Sailing Championship and the plan is to have 3 inshore races. If there will be 3 more races one more inshore race will be discarded. We are happy to be in the lead after two days with 5.4 points and tomorrow we will just continue sailing in the good way we have been doing this weekend.
We notice that Estonia is really a land of sailing the arrangements with courses, information and everything around the regatta is really excellent and we enjoy very much sailing here in Tallinn!
Today Baltic Offshore Week (BOW) started with four inshore races. Conditions was excellent with sunshine and wind, the day start with around 12 knots of wind and during the day increasing and in the fourth and last race of today we had 20+ knots.
We have sailed well overall today and we are in the lead in ORC B class with our series of 1, 1, 1, (2) with a total of 3 after one discard. Estonian Katarina 2 are second on 7 points and Directo third with 10 points, all results here.
Photo: BOW / Janis Spurdzins
Our sailing in the first three races was good with great speed, starts, maneuvers and tactics and we are overall pleased with our performance even if there are still things that could be improved of course. In todays last race when the wind picked up a bit we did not sail as well and made a few more mistakes but still happy to finish second in that race. Tomorrow we continue with the offshore race with a 35 nautical miles course that will be very important as it cannot be discarded and also the weight will be 1.4 for the race.
Team Pro4u arrived in Tallinn, Estonia yesterday and during this long weekend we will race in the Baltic Offshore Week that is also the Open Estonian and Finnish Offshore Sailing Championship. Overall, there are 26 boats participating in the Championships, 13 in ORC A (larger boats) and 13 in ORC B (smaller boats). We will race in the class ORC B and are the only boat attending from Sweden.
Everything about the regatta including participating boats can be found here: BOW
We have very good memories from BOW 2021 in Helsinki that we managed to win, we will try our best this year as well but competition from the Estonian and Finnish boats are usually hard so we expect tight racing! This is also one of the reasons we participate in BOW to be able to race against very good boats.
A lot to fix before a regatta as usual
Today we did some practice sailing just to get the crew up to speed and had great conditions outside Tallinn. Tomorrow the plan is to start the Championship with 4 inshore races, then on Saturday one offshore coastal race is planned (6-10 hours) and then finally on Sunday 3 inshore races is planned. Overall 8 races planned.
We will provide daily updates so we will do what we can to defend the Swedish colors over here in Estonia!
Under helgen har vi varit i Marstrand och seglar J/70. Helgen bestod av 7 seglingar, 4 på lördag och 3 på söndag. Det bjöds på propagandasegling med syd-sydväst 6-9 m/s, drygt 50 minuter långa seglingar på havet utanför Marstrand i fina vågor.
Vi lyckades vinna med serien (5),2,1,2,1,1,1. Alla resultat hittas här
Stort tack Marstands segelsällskap, MSS för en fantastisk helg, vi ser fram emot att komma tillbaka.
Vi lyckades idag vinna SM-guld i havskappsegling efter en härlig helgs segling. Totalt har vi under SM kappseglat sex race, fyra banrace, ett längre havsrace över natten på ca 17 timmar för oss och ett kortare havsrace idag på drygt 3 timmar. Vårt resultat under SM har varit: 1, (5), 2, 1,5, 1 och 1 med en total på 6,5 efter att en bansegling räknats bort. Totalt lyckades vi spika 4 av de 6 racen (det långa havsracet hade viktning 1,5). Här finns Resultaten.
Vi gratulerar också Club Swan 42 Ray som kom på andra plats med 9 poäng och Farr 40 Stormtrooper på tredje plats med 23 poäng. Speciellt Ray har seglat väldigt bra under SM och flera race avgjordes med bara några sekunder så det var tight racing som det ska vara under ett mästerskap.
Kappseglingen bjöd på tufft motstånd och vi är väldigt glada att vi lyckades vinna till slut och och vi hade en stark avslutning med spikar i de tre sista racen (båda havsracen).
Generellt har det varit fint väder med växlande vindar, ganska lätt under lördagen, sedan lite mer mellanvind och idag riktigt bra och stabil vind. Ganska kallt har det dock varit och en del i besättningen som inte tog med tillräckligt med kläder på de längre racen har nog frusit en del.
Foto: Malcolm Hanes/Stefan Rahm/KSSS
KSSS tillsammans med Svenska Havskappseglingsförbundet och övriga arrangörer har ordnat riktigt bra kappseglingar under SM och allt runt själva seglingen med banor, resultat och information har skötts på ett verkligt proffsigt sätt och att segla utanför Sandhamn är ju alltid fantastiskt!
Besättningen under SM har varit: Joakim Hoppe, Zacharias Krafft, Emil Alnebeck, Peter Thorwid, Pontus Dahl, Anders Björk, Sven Eriksson, Roger Nilson och Patrik Forsgren.
Foto: Malcolm Hanes/Stefan Rahm/KSSS
Under SM har vi också haft väldigt proffsig hjälp av vår meteorolog Måns Håkansson som verkligen är delaktig i att vi till sist lyckades vinna kappseglingen – stort tack för din hjälp Måns!
Nu laddar vi och om två helger åker vi till Tallinn för att vara med på Baltic Offshore Week som också är finska och estniska mästerskapen.
Imorgon kommer det avgöras med två kappseglingar, ett banrace och ett kortare havsrace. Om alla de planerade racen genomförs kommer man kunna räkna bort sitt sämsta banrace.
Vi tyckte det var kul att vi kunde vinna det långa havsracet som startade vid kl 19 igår kväll och där vi gick imål idag runt lunch.
Vi ser fram imorgon och vi kommer göra vårt bästa!
Nu över långhelgen är några ur besättningen iväg och deltar i Gullviverallyt samtidigt som planeringen och förberedelserna inför SM i havskappsegling (ORCI) pågår. SM går av stapel nästa helg den 3-6 juni i Sandhamn
Mer information om SM finns här samt att vi kommer med uppdateringar från oss längre fram
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