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Calendar 2025 - PREVIEW


Happy New Year, SOLers all, and, here, without further ado is an early outline for your sailonline.org racing programme 2025, and as always the title of SuperSOLer will be determined by the best 42 results from the usual four annual series: the Sprint Championship, the All-Round Championship, the Ocean Championship, and the TIMED Championship. Click on the buttons to discover more about these always fiercely contested annual contests.

In previous years we have raced circumnavigational series around Australia regularly and North America a few times, and across the many seas of Asia also, but Africa has been less explored. So, this year we will explore ‘Africa by Sea’, finishing with a transit of the Suez Canal, but, as there will be two discards, it can be ‘chickened out of’.

It is arguable that our long-standing Sprint Series, featuring short races of just a few hours, does not give enough ‘bang for our high-resolution bucks’ from our unique wrfems weather, so this year, additionally to the Sprints, we will race a hires series of races of 24 hours duration - the ‘Red Eye’ - which to win may require a certain amount of sleep management.

In 2016 we introduced our version of the DN ice yacht to an unsuspecting online sailing public. On good ice and in good wind it skates at up to 50 knots, tacking and gybing at will without performance loss. Racers loved it, so much so, that every northern hemisphere winter since we have organized a four-race series. In 2025 we will again host an Ice Series, but straddling the entire year, which means trips to the southern Andes and the Himalayas will be required.

Apart and entirely different to the DN, we have one other highly unusual craft in our boathouse. Although it floats in a fluid, it is not a boat either, but a balloon buoyed by the air, and this year, in response to public demand, we will race our SOL Balloon in a proper series. ‘Sinbad by Balloon’ will, like his seven online voyages of three years ago, take you to the four corners of the Indian Ocean.

In recent years, and in years gone by as well, within our Ocean Championships, we have also raced a Round the World (RTW) series, and we will do so again in 2025, but this year it will be a RWW 'Round Our Water World' eight-race series, in other words races that, again responding to demand, will avoid land as much as possible, by going from lonely island to lonely island à la Kevin Costner in the eponymous epic movie, in a mixed bag of ocean greyhounds.

     

The other four ocean races will be: 1/ a race from Cape Horn to Sables d'Olonne in a tuned-up foiling IMOCA 60, which hopefully will be able to match this year's Vendee fleet on their way home up the Atlantic, 2/ a race from Valparaiso to San Francisco inspired by Isabel Allende's terrific read 'Daughter of Fortune' , 3/ a second literature-inspired race from Cape Town to Java (lesser-known 'Mountains More Ancient' by Isna Marifa about the indentured Cape Malays of the 18th C), and of course 4/ our great and festive annual Christmas to Christmas race, back E to W.

There will be one other ocean race, which because of its great length in a comparatively slow yacht, to best match the real-life competitors we will be racing against, will not count towards the Ocean Championships; the Melbourne Osaka Cup .

Finally, as always, we will be partnering with numerous real-life race organizations and many of these partnerships will be in the form of short series. Click on any of the buttons below for further details about any of these.



       

       

Fair winds from SOL to all!

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ORCV Melbourne to Hobart 2024 - RESULTS


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Parabéns Vida_Maldita!!!
GRATULACJE WRmirekd!! Félicitations ALP317!

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The legendary 435-nautical-mile Westcoaster once again delivered an unforgettable challenge for our SOLers. Tackling the treacherous Bass Strait and Tasmania’s rugged west coast in our swift First 47.7s, our SOLers faced intense competition from start to finish.

In one of the most tightly contested finishes, Vida_Maldita of Brazil claimed victory by just one second over WRmirekd of Poland, with ALP317 of France securing third.

Congratulations to our podium finishers, top 10, and everyone who completed this fantastic race!

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Refeno Rally 2024 - RESULTS


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CONGRATULATIONS Satori !!!
CONGRATULATIONS CriticalHippo !! GRATULACJE WRmirekd !

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The route and weather conditions of the last ARCH race in 2024 presented limited opportunities for competitors to enhance their standings in the final rankings. Satori achieved a notable milestone in his career by winning the race with an impressive time of 39 hours, 37 minutes, and 44 seconds. CriticalHippo finished just 16 seconds later, having engaged in fierce competition with WRmirekd, ultimately surpassing him by a mere second. The General Classification saw only two alterations within the top ten. WRmirekd secured a decisive victory, while the race host, Vida_Maldita, ascended to second place, significantly outpacing FreyjaUSA, who claimed third. Additionally, CriticalHippo's triumph over Rafa allowed him to secure fourth place, relegating Rafa to fifth. The remaining positions in the TOP10 standings remained unchanged.

Congratulations are extended to the race winner and the overall classification leader.

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Christmas(W) to Christmas(E) Island 2024 - RESULTS


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CONGRATULATIONS CriticalHippo !!!
CONGRATULAZIONI RICOTINA !!
CONGRATULAZIONI ita10267 !

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This was an extraordinary race for sure. This traditional Christmas race, normally sailed from east to west, this time in reversed direction though, second time in the history of the X2X. 109 parties sat sail on time and an additional 57 joined in later. 134 managed to reach the finish line (time of writing).

Initially there was 3 different strategies, eventually split to 6 main schemes. Some strategy involved going further away (backwards) from the finish line. Some of the top finishers went as far ‘backwards’ as 300 nm, occasionally with a negative VMC of almost 7 kn, being 1600 nm behind the front runners. This all to seek advantage from ‘the roaring forties’, and also obviously with success.

The most extreme strategies north vs south went as far apart as 5700 nm (N41° vs S54°).
The main strategies’ mutual 'podium’: #1-North, #2-South, #3-West, #4-Northwest. Longest route sailed: #1-North, #2-South, #3-Nortwest, #4-West. The Western route being more or less along the rhumbline, and closest to the great circle, of all strategies.
Longest distance sailed, 8945 nm, finishing #109.
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Aden to Goa 2025


Europeans are primarily acquainted with the historical narrative of how spices reached their continent from distant regions. However, the spice trade from Goa to Aden predates the modern era, as detailed in this article. Sailonline is now reversing this route, organizing an eastbound yacht race of approximately 1700 nautical miles across the Arabian Sea for our 21st-century Archer 78 yachts. Wishing you fair winds and may the enticing aroma of spices guide you safely to your destination!
Race #1887
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Archer 78 PARTICULARS
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Race starts: Jan 20th 17:00 Registration Open!
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Lake Namtso Ice Race


To kick off our annual Ice Yachting Series, we will travel to Tibet and to one of the World’s highest lakes, Namtso, the “Heavenly Lake”, at an altitude of 4720m. Just fly to Gonggar Airport via Kathmandu, and get a taxi to Lhasa where the Dali Lama lives, then hire a truck with guide to take you and your DN and gear a further 200km north across the Nyenchen Tanglha mountains to Xianga where a 95nm triangle will be beaconed out on the ice for your enjoyment. Although like most of the Tibetan lakes, Namtso is a saline sump with no outflows, rest assured it is bitter cold there and ice is guaranteed. Mind the monks, you’ve no PL!
Race #1850
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Ranking: DN - SYC
Race starts: Jan 19th 09:00 Registration Open!
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Red Eye - Wellington to Nelson 2025


Welcome indeed to our first race of six “Red Eye Specials” - short overnighters through tricky high resolution winds, that will likely have you setting an alarm or two to not miss a weather update or tight rounding or three. This first one is a 105nm IRL classic out into New Zealand’s Cook Strait usually raced around the same time as our online race will start, raced only once before on SOL in 2012, and which on this occasion we will take on in our J-130!
Race #1843
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J-130 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
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Ranking: SYC - RED
RACE CLOSE: Saturday,
January 18 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Jan 12th 12:00 Registration Closed
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Vendee Home - Cape Horn to Olon 2025

Welcome to our 2025 Ocean Race Championships starting off with the classic 6900nm drag race from Cape Horn back to the coast of Brittany leading or following the boats of the Vendee Globe fleet. A new polar from the board of the BNH Design Partnership is being made available to you for this one, in the hope that aboard her you too will be able to cover 600nm in a day when the conditions are right! It's winter outside, so like the IRL sailors, enjoy and stay inside!
PRIZE: SMPF
Race #1874
INFO by brainaid.de
IMOCA 60 Foil v2 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: OCQ1 - OCCH - SUPSOL - SYC
Race starts: Jan 06th 11:00 Registration Closed
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AGage TIMED 100 Race 2025

SOL's gift to the memory of AGagewas a yearlong series of races circumnavigating Australia. This 100 nm race takes place in the St. Vincent Gulf off Adelaide to mark 12 years since the too-sudden end to the life of this remarkable SOLer. These were Aaron's home waters - he was a total competitor so... race to win! Please take the time to read the many tributes left in his memory. This is a TIMED race, so you may RE-REGISTER HERE to try again, after finishing a run. You will have 13 days and 11 hours to test your skill and decision making after the race opens.
Race #1879
INFO by brainaid.de
Sun Fast 3600 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking:
TRQ1 - TRCH - SUPSOL - SYC
RACE CLOSE: Saturday,
18 January at 23:00 UTC
Race starts: Jan 05th 12:00 Registration Open!
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  1. Sailonline Yacht Club Member WRmirekd
  2. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CriticalHippo
  3. Sailonline Yacht Club Member vida
  4. Sailonline Yacht Club Member FreyjaUSA
  5. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rafa
  6. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Satori
  7. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Kipper1258
  8. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Sax747
  9. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CollegeFund
  10. Sailonline Yacht Club Member BRENTGRAY

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