Team Russia Fly By

If you’ve been involved in offshore racing for a while, you’ve probably come across the new way of calculating results: Weather Routing Scoring (WRS). The idea: combine a boat’s theoretical performance (the VPP polars on its certificate) with a weather model for the actual race, then measure how close each boat got to its possible performance […]

Efter Marstrand Big Boat så var det dags att ta båten till Östersjön för Gotland Runt och RORC Baltic Sea Race. Ett bra sätt att värma upp, och att få segla lite mer tillsammans med hela teamet (de långa racen kör vi doublehanded) var att segla Sandhamn Open som också var SM i ORCi. Eftersom […]

Nån som har koll på båten idag? Profilen SWE 8971 is the world’s first extruded yacht. SAPA, Scandinavian Aluminum Profiles AB produced it in 1981. The initiator of Profilen, creative impact photographer and sailor Lennart Hyse, initiated the idea, collected a crew, took the role as the project manager, documented the story and created a […]