Second place in Worlds long Offshore race

The ORC Worls Champinship has now started in Tallinn, Estonia and there are overall 104 boats from 12 countries competing in three classes. Half of the boats, 62, are racing in our class C that is the most competitive class.

The long Offshore race was around 140 nm started on Monday morning and we sailed for a total of 22.5 hours. Due to the large size of the C fleet it was divided in two heats and we managed to finish in second place in our heat. See results for the race here. The total results can be seen here

We are happy with the result and having a low score in the Offshore races will be important for the total as these races cannot be discarded in the total for the World Championship.

The race from us was far from perfect and there are several things we could have done better but some things we also did very well.

But if gives a good feeling that in spite of not sailing a perfect race we still managed to score a second place and we are very much looking forward to the rest of the Worlds. Tomorrow the plan is to sail two inshore races and overall 8 races are planned.

See more about the World Championship here: orcworlds2021.com

Photos: ORC Worlds 2021 Mauro Melandri and Felix Diemer.

World Championship opened today

Today the ORC World Championship in offshore sailing was opened here in Tallinn Estonia. After being here for a week preparing for the race we very much look forward to starting for real now. Today we did a practice race and there was no scoring from this but we sailed well and we have a very good feeling going into this championship. This evening we then joined the opening ceremony with parade, speeches and the lightning of an Olympic fire just like they did in 1980 when the Olympic sailing was done in this area.

One of the speeches was done by Patrik and he had the honor to speak on behalf of all the international sailors.

Tomorrow the races will start with the long offshore race that is estimated to take around 33 hours for the slowest boats in the class. We are preparing the course for this right now and we are very much looking forward to this first race in the Worlds out of the planned 8 races.

All information about the Worlds and also results and tracking can be found here: https://www.orcworlds2021.com/

Second place in Pre-Worlds

Today the Pre-Worlds One Sails Cup ended and conditions today had very light winds and after some waiting only one race could be completed in around 5 knots of wind out of the planned three.

We came on 6th place in the race today and overall we finished on second place in the regatta with the series 4, 2, 2, 1.6 and (6) with a total score of 7.5 after one discard. We congratulate the winners Italia 11.98 Sugar 3. On third place was J-112E Adelante. All results here

The race today was difficult and we had extreme wind shifts in the light conditions, on the first beat we the wind changed 80 degrees so key was to find the wind and be on the right side in the shifts and did not manage to do a perfect sailing but overall we are happy with the regatta and finishing second is good and gives us a good feeling for the upcoming Worlds.

Now we will have some more training tomorrow and then a free lay day on Saturday. Then on Sunday the World Championship will be opened with a practice race.

Team Pro4u in the lead after Pre-Worlds day 1

Today the Pre-regatta before the Worlds started here in Tallinn. We had four good inshore races in light to medium winds 7 to 14 knots. In our C class there are 20 boats competing in the Pre-Worlds One Sails Cup.

We had a good day and we are in the lead after day one with the results 4, 2, 2 and 1.5 with a total score of 9.5. After us we have Sugar 3 (Italia 11.98) and Adelante (J-112E). All results are here: https://data.orc.org/public/WEV.dll?action=series&eventid=ybuuh&classid=C

We are pleased with today's racing and for every race during the day we improved our sailing so we are very much looking forward to tomorrow when there are three new inshore races planned. But the competition from all the Estonian boats is really though and we have to sail the best we can to beat them.

We would also like to thank Anna Drougge for coming a few days earlier in the week to train with us when we had one crew member waiting for negative Covid tests (that he had in the end). Anna flew in to Tallinn on short notice and joined us for training a few days and what a pro she is and we want to thank her warmly for that as it helped us to prepare in a difficult situation!

The pictures and the video below are from the offshore training we did yesterday where we had up to 25 knots of wind and we had a long downwind ride with great spinnaker training with in wind and waves.

Worlds in Tallinn starts soon

First of all as to make it easier for our international friends and followers we will do updates on this page in English before and during the Worlds as we have done during international championships earlier years as well.

The 2021 ORC World Championship in Tallinn, Estonia is coming closer and we are getting ready to travel to Estonia soon. The plan is that the entire team meets in Tallinn on Saturday and then we will have a few days of practice onsite. Then we will race in the Pre-Worlds Regatta on August 4-5 (Thu-Fri next week). After that the World Championship starts on Sunday 8 August.

We herring race in Worlds Class C and as usual this is the most competive class with the most boats, at the moment there are 65 boats on the entry list. All information on the World Championship is available here: https://www.orcworlds2021.com/

The competition will be very though, especially from the Estonian boats but we will of course do everything we can to try to beat as many as possible. We will be competing both in the Open division and the Corinthian division and our goal is to try to win the Corinthian division (for non-professionals) for the 9th time in a row in the Europeans and Worlds we have competed in plus additionally try to get on the podium in the Open division.

Pictures from the last time we raced in a World Championship in the Hague in 2018.

Second place on Gotland Runt

This year's Gotland Runt is over for us and after just over 57 hours of sailing we finished Monday night. After a somewhat strange race where we have ridden the roller coaster in the results list, we finally finished second in the ORCi class and given what it looked like, we are happy with the result.

The results can be found here: https://www.ksss.se/globalassets/gotland-runt/gr2021/resultat/race-results-orci_finnish_7.html

We made a good start and had a nice sailing through the archipelago and we cruised successfully and led out at Korsö Hals. Then, unfortunately, we more or less ran out of wind before Fårö and were left lying in very little wind for a long period while the slightly larger boats in the class, which had gone the same way, got nice breeze and left us considerably. There was no good feeling on board when we already found out that between the first and second rounds we had lost 20 places from 1st to 21st place.

But it was just to bite together and keep sailing well and we started picking placings all the time and managed to round Hoburgen as 8th and then it was from Visby and home that we were able to take a few more places after we got a long shoulder with our new Jibtop that worked very well.

We finished the race second 11 minutes behind Finnish XP-44 Xtra Staerk and we congratulate them until the victory!

We also thank the organizers KSSS for a good race and very fun that we got to race again. We are also looking forward to next year when we hope all the nice country activities will be back to normal again.

Below is an interview with our team shortly after the finish.

Gotland Around start on Saturday

We are very much looking forward to catching up with Gotland Runt again this year after it was cancelled last summer. However, not everything is business as usual and, for example, an adaptation is to put the start over two days. We who sail in the ORCi class will start on Saturday and we start at 11:00. The ORCi class has a total of 32 boats. See start list here: https://www.ksss.se/globalassets/gotland-runt/gr2021/dokument/saturday_orci_mh_sh.pdf

Unfortunately, there will also be no open boat this year and we must hope to meet you all who usually come by the boat to the next Gotland Runt as we hope that the land activities are also back.

But you will be able to follow us during the race this year in several ways:

• We start Saturday at 11:00 in the ORCi class with the number 29.
• KSSS will live stream the start Saturday from 10:30 a.m. on: https://m.youtube.com/user/ksssfilmer
• On the noticeboard there are all relevant documents: https://www.ksss.se/gotlandrunt/competitors/OfficialNoticeboard/
• Via TracTrack: https://tractrac.com/event-page/event_20210622_GotlandRun/2082
• Via our own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Pro4uSailRacingTeam

When we last raced Gotland Runt it was really wet, cold and windy but it still went well and we managed to win our class (the pictures from GR 2019). This year we hope for a little better weather with warmth and medium wind... But you never know what it's going to be like.

We are looking forward to this year's sailing and we will be running with our regular team of 9 people which is fun. As usual, we will have a high goal and to be involved in fighting in the top 3 is what we want.

Below is the team that races this year's Gotland Runt:

• Emil Forsgren, fore tyre
• Hugo Christensson, mast
• Zacharias Krafft, keyboards
• Thomas Tennström, focktrim
• Anders Björk, spin strip
• Peter Thorwid, tactics
• Roger Nilson, Strategy & Navigation
• Patrik Forsgren, Helmsman & Skipper
• Sven Eriksson, BigTrim

Team Pro4u Finnish champions!

Today the Open Finnish ORC Championship / BOW ended and we managed to win the championship and are now Finnish Class C champions! The plan was to get to at least two races today but unfortunately the wind ran out and after several hours of waiting we finally got to a race where we finished third.

We got the series 1, 2, 1.2, 3 overall 7.2 points. The results can be found here:

https://data.orc.org/public/WEV.dll?action=series&eventid=cxiic&classid=C

We also thank the organizers for a good competition and despite tough conditions with very little wind, after all, they got to a championship! Very nice award ceremony where the Swedish national anthem was also played for us. We are happy to come back another time and sail in Helsinki.

Team Pro4u leads the Finnish Championships

Baltic Offshore Week (Open Finnish ORC Championship) continued today with the second day and today we raced an offshore course of 30 distances in continued radiant sun and light winds between 4 and 12 knots.

We sailed a really good race where we had good speed in the boat, made good choices and maneuvers and took another nail in the championship. In total, after three sailings, we now have series 1, 2 and 1.2 with a total of 4.2 after the sea race is listed with 1.2. The results can be found here:

https://data.orc.org/public/WEV.dll?action=series&eventid=cxiic&classid=C

It was also the second race of the competition where we took line honors in the class (if you exclude a boat today that did not run the track correctly).

The organizers had laid a fun and good course with about 15 rounds and we sailed around in just under 7 hours. There were both hefty cruises and bilge winds interspersed with some semi-winds and some jungle around islands. It was difficult to sail because the wind was really sheared and there was a big difference between the shoulders and it changed all the time so there was a varied extreme twist in the sails and none at all on the shoulder after. It was about being alert the whole race and we re-tuned constantly in a usually pretty good way.

Tomorrow the race ends with hopefully a 2-3 track race. Of course, we aim to continue sailing well and we hope that wind and forecasts will be sufficient, but we are keeping our fingers crossed!