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16 January 2026


Happy New Year, SOLers all, and, here, without further ado is an early outline for your sailonline.org Racing Programme 2026. This year, the long tradition of recognizing the most dedicated and winniest SOLer with a SUPerSOLer award will be replaced by instead recognizing the SOLer who scores best overall over the 43 planned buddied races after 6 discards with a new SUPerBUDdy prize.

This year also, we shall discontinue the All-Round Championships, replacing this series, with a number of special series, some new, some repeats. The annual ever-popular Ocean Championship, Sprint Championship, and TIMED Championship, however continue, as before. Click on the images to discover more about these always fiercely contested annual contests.

Some, in fact most, of the races of the Ocean Championships will also count towards other series, namely a Round the Old World series, a Round the New World series, and The Migrations series, which latter will also include two races of insufficient length and duration to be proper SOL Ocean races. And one Ocean race, the Cape to Rio, which starts before the New Year is a buddy-up and thus will count towards the SUPerBUDdy title. Click on the images to discover more about these three new series.

Three of last year’s other special series will repeat in 2026, but each with a subtle difference. Our four-race iceboat series will be restyled as the New Ice Age in the form of four long-distance races, two in the Arctic, two in the Antarctic. Our balloon series will reduce by one in number to three, but will be across land, ignoring land/water boundaries entirely. And our Red Eye series, of races in high resolution weather generally overnight, will increase to eleven in number, and will include buddied races whenever possible. Click on the images to discover more about these three series.

Two further series complete the challenges for you to take on, both determined by the likelihood of variability and surprise in forecasted weather; the Magical Mediterranean series of eleven races including several buddy-ups; and the Cross the Convergence Zones series of nine races, each and every one crossing the Equator. Click on the images below to discover more about these two new series.

       

Finally, as always, many of our buddied races that will all count towards the SUPerBUDdy prize, will themselves be part of various short series, including this year our two races to Tasmania in partnership with the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria, which we are adding to our traditional year-end double from New South Wales to Tasmania and back to create a new Tasman Quadruple. Click on any of the images below for further details about any of these buddied-up series.

   

       

       

Fair winds from SOL to all!

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New Ice Age 2026 - Scott Base to Neumayer Station


To complete our DN circumnavigation of Antarctica and our 4-race ice-boat marathon series, we continue clockwise, now departing from Scott Base back to Neumayer Station. It’s about 3500nm back as well, which, as said if there’s wind at all, should, well-wrapped in your DN-cockpits, not take you much more than five days. And remember: charts down here are unreliable – what is land and what is ice?!
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Cross the Convergence 2026 - Tenerife to Fernando de Noronha


The sixth race of our series of ocean voyages across the World’s convergence zones takes us back up the Atlantic to Tenerife, from whence we will depart on a classic transatlantic passage to Brazil’s Fernando de Noronha. It’s 2150nm as the albatross flies, but you will undoubtedly have to take some and sometimes sudden detours to get your Volvo 70v4 through the doldrums stretching across your path from the Amazon to the Niger.
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Palk Bay TIMED Race 2026

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This is a TIMEDrace so you may RE-REGISTER HEREto try again after finishing a run. You will have two weeks to test your skill and decision making after the race opens.
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The British Isles Circumnavigation 2026


The British Isles Circumnavigation is here! Inviting skippers to take on an epic 1,720nm clockwise voyage around Britain and Ireland! Starting and finishing in Cowes, the course passes some of the most iconic landmarks in offshore sailing, including Fastnet Rock, Tearaght Lighthouse, Black Rock, St. Kilda and Muckle Flugga before the long run home. Racing in our fast and versatile TP52, this Super-Buddy Championship race will reward smart routing, changing weather strategy and sustained concentration over every mile. Good luck!
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Easter Island to Tristan da Cunha 2026

Welcome to the second leg of our RNW series, rounding Cape Horn. This middle-most leg Round the New World, from Easter Island to Tristan da Cunha, is also part of our Ocean Championship, and as such the second race of OCQ3 2026. This race, like the previous race in the RNW series, will be sailed in our revised 'version 2' Imoca 60 Foil. Race #2050
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