I helgen kördes första upplagan av Nordön Race Week. Det Ă€r en “uppgraderad” variant av Nordön Race dĂ€r man kör 2 eller 3 kryss/lĂ€nsbanor pĂ„ lördagen och sedan ett distanserade pĂ„ söndagen. För vĂ„r del sĂ„ lĂ„g detta perfekt helgen innan Tjörn Runt, och det blir en kort uppsegling denna vecka. Jag tror att bĂ„de […]
Hermanö Runt har alltid varit mitt favoritrace. Men jag har inte haft chans att vara med de senaste Ă„ren. Senast jag körde var 2020, dĂ„ i Dominant Race Special. I Ă„r fick jag chansen att segla med Anders Eklind i hans J/99. Han fick den förra sommaren och var dĂ„ med utom tĂ€vlan dĂ„ han […]
Here’s some video from leg one of Bermuda 1-2. My full race report is here.
Sometimes things come full circle. One of the reasons I got into sailing, especially offshore racing, was all the fantastic photos from offshore races around the world. When I was young, magazines like Yachting World and Segling inspired me to get onto big boats and do longer races. One of those amazing photographers was Billy […]
TyvĂ€rr blir det inget Pantaenius Bohusrace för oss i Open 7.50. Vi har aldrig seglat bĂ„ten i >10 m/s. Vi har aldrig seglat den shorthanded, DĂ„ Ă€r det inte lĂ€ge att ta ut den pĂ„ Marstrandsfjorden för det Ă€r +15 m/s i byarna. NĂ€r jag tittar pĂ„ vĂ„r roiuting sĂ„ hade vi varit vid HĂ€tteberget […]
This is part two of the Bermuda 1-2 race report. Part one is here: the solo leg to Bermuda. Bermuda is a fantastic place. But after recovering from leg one and getting boats and (most) skippers back in race condition, everyone was ready to go again. And as co-skippers, or “number two” started to arrive, […]
Time to race back to Newport. This time with Mattias Bodlund as co-skipper. The start is at 11:00 EDT Thursday. It looks like a decent southwesterly to get north, then a slight chance of 40+ knots before we enter lighter winds when we approach Newport. The biggest question is, naturally, how to manage the Gulf […]
It’s very hard to distill a race like this into one blog post. Naturally, there are the facts; the YellowBrick track and the Expedition log files that account for what happened, second by second. Then there’s my, subjective and emotional, version. And they don’t really match… The data says it was a four-day rather tough […]