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SM-Gold in Sea Sailing today!

Today we managed to win the SM gold in ocean sailing after a great weekend of sailing. In total we have sailed six races during the Swedish Championship, four track races, a longer sea race overnight of about 17 hours for us and a shorter sea race today of just over 3 hours. Our result during the SM has been: 1, (5), 2, 1,5, 1 and 1 with a total of 6,5 after one course race is counted out. In total we managed to nail 4 of the 6 races (the long sea race had a weighting of 1.5). Here are the results.

We also congratulate Club Swan 42 Ray who came in second place with 9 points and Farr 40 Stormtrooper in third place with 23 points. Ray in particular has sailed very well during the SM and several races were decided by just a few seconds so it was tight racing as it should be during a championship.

The race offered tough competition and we are very happy that we managed to win in the end and we had a strong finish with spikes in the last three races (both sea races).

Generally it has been nice weather with variable winds, quite light on Saturday, then a bit more medium wind and today really good and stable wind. However, it has been quite cold and some of the crew who didn't bring enough clothes on the longer races must have been freezing a bit.

Photo: Malcolm Hanes/Stefan Rahm/KSSS

KSSS together with the Swedish Sea Sailing Association and the other organizers have arranged really good races during the SM and everything around the actual sailing with courses, results and information has been handled in a really professional way and to sail off Sandhamn is always fantastic!

The crew during the SM has been: Joakim Hoppe, Zacharias Krafft, Emil Alnebeck, Peter Thorwid, Pontus Dahl, Anders Björk, Sven Eriksson, Roger Nilson and Patrik Forsgren.

Photo: Malcolm Hanes/Stefan Rahm/KSSS

During the SM we have also had very professional help from our meteorologist Måns Håkansson, who is really involved in the fact that we finally managed to win the race - thank you very much for your help Måns!

Now we are gearing up and in two weekends we will go to Tallinn to participate in the Baltic Offshore Week, which is also the Finnish and Estonian championships.

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SM is decided tomorrow

This weekend, the Swedish Championship in ocean sailing will be held in Sandhamn. After two days we have sailed three course races and one long sea race on Sunday night. After four races we are in second place and the results can be found here: https://www.ksss.se/globalassets/resultatarkiv/2022/sm-orc-havskkappsegling/sm-i-havskappsegling_2-result-overall.html

Tomorrow it will be decided with two races, a track race and a shorter sea race. If all the planned races take place, they will be able to count out their worst track race.

We thought it was great that we could win the long sea race that started at 7pm last night and where we finished today around lunchtime.

We are looking forward to tomorrow and we will do our best!

Charging up for the SM!

Now over the long weekend, some of the crew are off to participate in the Gullviver Rally, while planning and preparing for the World Ocean Racing Championship (ORCI). The SM will take place next weekend on 3-6 June in Sandhamn

More information about the SM can be found here and we will provide updates later

North Sails Offshore Clinic

This weekend we have had a very good training weekend in connection with the North Sails Offshore Clinic based at Lökholmen at Sandhamn. The training started on Friday and after an afternoon session at high speed we did night sailing in the dark with various courses and also an exercise in MOB which is always useful to practice. On Saturday the training continued and we also did some more distance sailing with some open bows, very good to get some practice in. Finally today there was more start training and more cross country sailing.

Photo: NSOC/Christian Harding

Really good with a training weekend like this when we get to race against other boats and do some different exercises and give us the opportunity to tune up even better!

Picture of the start. Photo: NSOC/Christian Harding

We thank North Sails, SHF and KSSS for a very good event and perhaps the best NSOC so far? We would love to come back again and hope even more boats take the chance next year and to have so much varied training with starts, short course, manoeuvres, night sailing, MOB, open bulkheads, distance etc in one weekend with other boats is unique! Special thanks to Anders Lewander, Christian Harding and Anders Bengtsson for coaching us at sea! See you next year again.

Spin and staysail. Photo: NSOC/Christian Harding

Victory in Viggan Open!

The first Viggan Open race of the year on the Trälhavet was sailed today in fine weather with varying winds, ranging from 6 to 20 knots. We managed to win the race under both the ORC and SRS rules with four spikes (and one false start). All results are available here: Results VO

Photo: Michelle Nadeau/Team Pro4u

It was really fun and useful to race with other boats and although we did many things well with nice route choices and mostly good speed in the boat, there are lots of details to improve in the training sessions to come.

Thank you to the Viggan Open organisers who made it possible for us to have a great day on the water with some very good racing!

Photo: Seapax Viggan Open

KSSS SPRING BREAK 2022

During the weekend KSSS held a J/70 clinic on Saturday and racing training on Sunday which we participated in. Both days offered great mirroring conditions with sun and perfect wind.

The wind was between 6-10 m/s so it was perfect training for us in a little more wind. Practicing crosses and crisscrosses, setups, takedowns and jibes in a bit more wind is super good and rewarding but we also realize that we have several points to work on

On Sunday, five races were planned and completed. We had the series (2),2,2,1,1 and managed to win SPRING BREAK 2022. The full results can be found here

Thanks to all the other boats that participated and a big thank you to KSSS for organising a great weekend!

J/70 Easter Camp Denmark

Over Easter, the J/70 crew has been in Copenhagen for a training camp. We have very good memories from here as we did the European Championships here last year. The Danes once again offered a fantastic event both on land and on the water. Coaches were Ida Marie Baad Nielsen (represented Denmark in 49erFX in the Tokyo Olympics), Michael Hestbæk (Olympian and America's cup sailor) and Claudia Rossi (3x European champion J/70 and World champion in doublehanded mixed offshore). Very high level. 

The days consisted of two sailing sessions with a briefing and debrief before and after each session. We feel that we have developed a lot but also received lessons from the coaches that we are working on. 

Next year we hope for more Swedish and Nordic crews. 3-10 April the Danes are running the same event again but this time on Lake Garda in Italy and they hope for over 40 boats from all over Europe!
Already next weekend we will have the next training camp/regatta at home on Baggensfjärden!

Update to follow

Good training weekend!

Team Pro4u started the season's training last week and we have been training all this weekend. Today we were at sea off Sandhamn and the conditions were really nice, 12-18 knots of wind, sunshine and some sea waves. We did some testing of our staysail sail settings and then we did a round trip with Alma as our cruising mark. Fun and useful to get our new guys on the team too.

Now we continue with training to be ready for the first race of the year, Viggan Open 8 May.

The season starts soon...

We are starting to prepare for this year's training sessions with Malin, starting in April - it will be fun!

The website has been updated and if you want to see this year's racing programme, you can find it here: https://swe88.se/tavlingsprogram/. We are looking forward to racing in Nynäshamn, going to Tallinn for Baltic Offshore Week and then going to Hanken for the European Championships.

We have also updated the team for both boats and it can be found here: https://swe88.se/besattning/. We especially welcome Pontus and Emil A as new members of the team (presentations are available on the website) and also very happy that Joakim Hoppe is coming back as strategist/hub!

We are also grateful for our two new Partners (Liros and OneDeisgnCenter) and they can be seen here: https://swe88.se/partners/

Next week the KSSS Offshore Clinic will also start and a new bunch of younger sailors will undergo the course, read more here: https://www.ksss.se/traning/clinics/ksss-offshore-clinic/

Season premiere at Primo Cup

The last few days we have been in Monaco sailing the Primo Cup, which is the biggest race for the J/70 class during the winter, at one of the most prestigious sailing clubs in the world: the Yacht Club de Monaco. 72 participants from 15 nations. This was the first race that the semi-new J/70 team sailed together. Emil Forsgren is new in the trim position and Tomas Movin is new in the tactician/mainsheet position. Remaining from the previous season is Thomas Tennström on foredeck and of course Patrik Forsgren as helmsman. The race was meant to be a run-through before the season and to feel the waters before the World Championships in October.

We arrived on Wednesday, launched and had some great training sessions on the water. Much needed when Tomas had only spent one day in a J/70 before. Already now we realized that this would be a tough regatta given the light, shifty wind in combination with the extreme wave size.

Day 1 of the regatta offered light winds from the east-southeast, which later in the day shifted to the south. And BIG waves from a slightly different direction than the wind direction that made it very difficult to keep the boat moving. The first start we started close to the starter and got off to a good start and were able to pick our own track. Despite the difficult conditions, we felt we had okay boat speed and were hanging on well at the top. But we messed up at the first cruising mark and lost about 15-20 boats. The wind died down, the course shortened and we finished 46th. The second race of the day we started on the leeward side and got a very good start and were able to beat the field. We rounded the first tick mark in 15th, made a good leg and sailed our way up to 10th place. The second leg we did almost even better than the first and rounded fifth before the last leg. During the last leg the wind dropped again and we unfortunately dropped to 15th place. But now we knew that if we get away well at the start, we will catch the top boats. Very good feeling.'

Day 2 is spent almost all day on land. And then the Yacht Club de Monaco is a very nice place to be. At the end of the day, the race committee sent us out on the water and two start attempts were made before the AP over A flags were raised and we were sent ashore again. In the evening there was the regatta dinner, "Pasta Party", where we were served a pasta buffet, charcuterie buffet and dessert buffet with highlights from the Italian and French cuisine.

Day 3 We managed to get three races together with a good wind from the north, even though the forecasts predicted almost no wind at all, which was great fun. The first race was our worst sailing of the regatta with a bad start and going to the wrong edge. 51st place at the finish. In the second and third races of the day we finished 20th and 17th respectively after relatively good starts and smart route choices.

We finished the competition in 30th place out of 72. A good result considering this was our first competition together and that the best in the world were for training for the World Championships. We would like to congratulate the winners and thank the organizers.

During the competition, robot badges were used, which we thought was a bit cool. Also a very funny sight when 72 boats are chasing and trying to ping for the starting line's lane mark as it drives away after a button press on an iPad on the starting ship. Now the boat is heading back to Saltis but already next week Thursday the team flies to Montenegro to sail the Montenegro Sprint Cup.

To be continued

All results can be found here

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