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Africa by Sea 2025 - Swakopmund to Maputo - RESULTS


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GRATULACJE WRmirekd !!!
CONGRATULATIONS CriticalHippo !! FELICIDADES rafa !

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After nine days at sea, the much anticipated (in the NOR) headwinds finally came through as our fleet of more than a hundred Xp55 yachts approached Maputo, creating some last-watch opportunities for gaining (or losing) a place or two, expertly taken by WRmirekd, nudging the leader of many days CriticalHippo to the sliver step on the podium, and by rafa, sneaking onto the bronze third thread at the expense of Kipper1258.

Close racing, and it's off to Mogadishu next. Be sure not to miss it!

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Marquesas to Young Island - RESULTS


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CONGRATULATIONS Kipper1258 !!!
CONGRATULAZIONI RICOTINA !!
CONGRATULATIONS FreyjaUSA !

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Another race has now been written into the logbooks—this one marked by calm consistency rather than dramatic shifts in strategy. The fleet sailed in tight formation throughout, with no significant tactical deviations to set boats apart. Favorable winds graced the first half of the course, offering sailors beam to broad reaching conditions. The latter half, however, brought strong headwinds, turning the race into a grind toward the finish. Despite the challenge, the competition remained incredibly close: the top 10 boats crossed the line within just one hour of each other, with the podium places decided by a mere 15 minutes.

The leaders sailed approximately 4,400 nautical miles over a 4,100nm great circle route—indicating a relatively direct course with minimal detours. The winning time of 10 days and 6 hours translates to an impressive average speed of nearly 18 knots.

By the time of writing, 114 out of 127 participants had completed the journey—an excellent turnout for a race that demanded focus and endurance over flair and risk.

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TuziTekwini TIMED Race 2025 - RESULTS


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FELICITATIONS KaSToR !!!
CONGRATULATIONS CriticalHippo !!
FELICITATIONS ForbanduCollet44 !

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Eighty one SOLers completed at least one run in the TuziTekwini TIMED race. Almost two hundred attempts were made with a handful of boats still on the course as time ran out. The winning times were turned in on day 5 of racing with the top five finishers separated by razor thin margins. The time difference between 1st and 2nd was only one second; 2nd and 3rd three seconds; 3rd and 4th two seconds; and 4th and 5th sixteen seconds. The race report from KaSToR includes a screen shot of these results.

A special thank you to the King Shaka Yacht Club (KSYC) for inviting Sailonline to partner with them for this virtual version of their race. There was a larger than usual contingent of racers from South Africa and we hope the new comers enjoyed their time racing with us.

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Isle of Wight RTI Sprint 2025


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FELICIDADES rafa !!!
GRATTIS marman !! CONGRATULATIONS CollegeFund !

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The Isle of Wight RTI race is iconic, historic, and IRL a congested and difficult challenge with crowded waters, tricky winds and the Solent tides to contend with. In SOL more congestion is welcome, and tides are not in play, which leaves the winds and for some an overnight start time as the biggest headache. Ah, but then there are the Needles, which according to the chat your reporter gleaned several boats navigated on the wrong side of. If you managed the Needles okay there was still several areas of the coast to avoid, and not everyone did. Once everything was settled it was rafa who managed it best. The critical bit turned out to be the navigation in the Solent from Cowes to the Needles. Racing was extremely close as well, with the top 10 finishing exactly 1 minute apart, and the top 6 within 19 seconds. You are encouraged to read the excellent report by Satori above.

With Q2 sprints in the books, it was rafa taking top quarterly honours, followed by CollegeFund and HoratioPugwash. For the annual championship CollegeFund is out front with a nice lead, but HoratioPugwash has a tenuous second place followed closely by CriticalHippo and rafa. With two quarters to go anything can still happen. See you in July for the start of Q3 sprints.

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Lake Ontario 300 Challenge 2025

Lake Ontario Offshore Racing (LOOR) welcomes Sailonline sailors (SOLers for short) to a second virtual version of a race in their annual series, the LO300. As the name implies, the LO300 is a 300nm offshore race across the length and breadth of Lake Ontario, from and back to Port Credit YC. Once again, as is our wont on Lake Ontario, a fleet of Beneteau First 36.7s is being made available to virtual racers. There is an overall prize for the SOLer who best bosses Lake Ontario over the two races hosted by Sailonline, this 300 and the Susan Hood raced back in May; so, let the competition be fierce!
Race #1931
INFOby brainaid.de
First 36.7 PARTICULARS
NAM_AWIP WX Updates:
0245 / 0845 / 1445 / 2045
Ranking: LOOR - SYC
Race starts: Jul 12th 15:10 Registration will open soon

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Tall Ships Races 2025 - Le Havre to Dunkirk


Welcome to the first of four virtual Tall Ships Races in European waters which are concurrently being organized in-real-life by Sail Training International . The course for this first race is between the French ports of Le Havre and Dunkirk; circa 125nm in Sailonline’s magnificent 90m Barque.
NOTE: Starts and Finishes in tall ships racing are always offshore to avoid conflict with shipping and shipping lanes; online and real-life may not match exactly.
Race #1923
INFO by brainaid.de
Barque 90m PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: TS - SYC
Race starts: Jul 07th 16:00 Registration Open!
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Young Island to Christmas Island 2025

The adventure continues as we launch this fifth leg of the RWW series, racing from Young Island to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, familiar from our Xmas 2 Xmas races. Get ready for a chilling new challenge as we set sail on the seventh leg of the 2025 Ocean Championship Series! A 4100nm journey of endurance, strategy, and pure sailing excitement. This leg will be pursued aboard the Super Maxi 100 v2, pushing sailors to their limits. Do you have what it takes to conquer the Indian Ocean? Join us and put your skills to the ultimate test!
PRIZE: SMPF
Race #1929
INFO by brainaid.de
Super Maxi 100 v2 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: OCQ3 - RWW - OCCH - SUPSOL - SYC
Race starts: Jul 07th 11:00 Registration Open!
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Red Eye - Key Lime Pie-gatta 2025

Opposite the Bahamas at the tip of the Florida peninsula, we find the Florida Keys, a honky-tonk arpeggio of islands, where another SOL classic, the Key Lime Pie-gatta, so-called after the famous local condensed-milk-based tart speciality, awaits to be navigated once again. We’ll race its “Red Eye” 180nm in very-American Santa Cruz 52s, ignoring such artefacts as bridges, causeways and piers joining the keys one to the other and to the mainland!
Race #1846
INFOby brainaid.de
Santa Cruz 52 PARTICULARS
NAM_AWIP WX Updates:
0245 / 0845 / 1445 / 2045
Ranking: SYC - RED
RACE CLOSE: Monday,
July 7 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Jul 02nd 12:00 Registration Open!
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Sail Around Turkey 2025


Welcome to the 11th running of one of Sailonline's most iconic races, where our fleet races the length of the Turkish coastline from Hopa (the easternmost harbour on Turkey’s Black Sea coast) to Iskenderun (the easternmost harbour on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast). It’s a 1,372nm race and aboard our classic, 1st decade of the 21st Century, version 2 IMOCA 60, you should be able to get around the course in less than a week. That is if, of course, once you get out of the Black Sea you don’t stop to enjoy the sights or a BBQ or two in the Golden Horn, or on the Marble Islands, now land-locked Troy or Gallipoli or any of the myriad Aegean islands, that you shall have to carefully navigate past.
Race #1930
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IMOCA 60 v2 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SYC
Race starts: Jun 27th 15:00 Registration Closed
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  1. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CriticalHippo
  2. Sailonline Yacht Club Member KaSToR
  3. Sailonline Yacht Club Member WRmirekd
  4. Sailonline Yacht Club Member FreyjaUSA
  5. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rafa
  6. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Kipper1258
  7. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rumskib
  8. Sailonline Yacht Club Member BRENTGRAY
  9. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Sax747
  10. Sailonline Yacht Club Member vida

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