pogen
03-22-2012, 04:11 PM
I follow a boat blog called Blur http://www.blur.se run by a fellow who has had a series of boats in Sweden all called Blur. The latest is a J/111.
There's a very active solo and shorthanding scene there -- one of the latest is the Harken Solo Challenge (http://www.no-crew.se/harken-solo-challenge/).
From Google translate of this story (http://www.hamnen.se/batfeber/giganternas-kamp-%E2%80%93-harken-solo-challenge-2012) --
Solo Sailing on the agenda in mid-August and in writing it is 44 boats registered for the regatta "Harken Solo Challenge." It's about challenging yourself and sail alone in the waters around Sandhamn. All ships and boats are welcome to go along with this adventure.
Båttestaren Curt Gelin sets its folk boat and is one of the smaller contribution to date together with a catamaran F18.
On the other side of the spectrum, we have two giants, one is a 63-footer Refanut, a classic offshore cruiser designed by Sparkman & Stephens from the mid 50th century with skipper Fredrik Wallenberg.
The second is a Swan 65 called "Who Valley" with Peter Holmberg at the helm. Not only do these gentlemen to budge around the opposite boat of nearly twenty feet and 35 tons of completely alone on board, they have also signed up to sail downwind sails! There you can talk about the challenge!
With the starting grid, there will also be some very experienced solo sailor, one is Ulf Brändström not have done other than to sail solo in a mini 6:50 the last three years and rumor has it that the others will be Pia L'Obry, first Swedish to implement the Mini-Transat.
Do you not think it's challenging enough just to get around the track solo so one can measure up to these quantities in Swedish solo sailing to lift it all one level to!
You can also set up just to meet like-minded and beautiful people on the regatta dinner in Sandhamn afterwards, a quite good reason, I think!
Hang on you, all you need is a flotation with SRS's. Why not take on the challenge of a laser or a 2.4mr? Learn more and sign up for Harken Solo Challenge .
The SRS alluded to seems to be the Swedish version of PHRF, a quasi measurement rule with Time Correction Factor. See here (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.svensksegling.se/Batteknik/SRS/&usg=ALkJrhhoPe5fxxF6l24E54hVYxMITQWV6g) for a translated description.
The sailing grounds in Sweden are very beautiful. I myself haven't sailed there, but I took an overnight ferry once through the Aaland Islands from Stockholm to Turku, Finland on the Summer Solstice -- it never gets full dark in summer. But there are plenty of hazards to beware of, millions of rocks for example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1s4qoYKCqM&feature=player_embedded
Sound like fun.
There's a very active solo and shorthanding scene there -- one of the latest is the Harken Solo Challenge (http://www.no-crew.se/harken-solo-challenge/).
From Google translate of this story (http://www.hamnen.se/batfeber/giganternas-kamp-%E2%80%93-harken-solo-challenge-2012) --
Solo Sailing on the agenda in mid-August and in writing it is 44 boats registered for the regatta "Harken Solo Challenge." It's about challenging yourself and sail alone in the waters around Sandhamn. All ships and boats are welcome to go along with this adventure.
Båttestaren Curt Gelin sets its folk boat and is one of the smaller contribution to date together with a catamaran F18.
On the other side of the spectrum, we have two giants, one is a 63-footer Refanut, a classic offshore cruiser designed by Sparkman & Stephens from the mid 50th century with skipper Fredrik Wallenberg.
The second is a Swan 65 called "Who Valley" with Peter Holmberg at the helm. Not only do these gentlemen to budge around the opposite boat of nearly twenty feet and 35 tons of completely alone on board, they have also signed up to sail downwind sails! There you can talk about the challenge!
With the starting grid, there will also be some very experienced solo sailor, one is Ulf Brändström not have done other than to sail solo in a mini 6:50 the last three years and rumor has it that the others will be Pia L'Obry, first Swedish to implement the Mini-Transat.
Do you not think it's challenging enough just to get around the track solo so one can measure up to these quantities in Swedish solo sailing to lift it all one level to!
You can also set up just to meet like-minded and beautiful people on the regatta dinner in Sandhamn afterwards, a quite good reason, I think!
Hang on you, all you need is a flotation with SRS's. Why not take on the challenge of a laser or a 2.4mr? Learn more and sign up for Harken Solo Challenge .
The SRS alluded to seems to be the Swedish version of PHRF, a quasi measurement rule with Time Correction Factor. See here (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.svensksegling.se/Batteknik/SRS/&usg=ALkJrhhoPe5fxxF6l24E54hVYxMITQWV6g) for a translated description.
The sailing grounds in Sweden are very beautiful. I myself haven't sailed there, but I took an overnight ferry once through the Aaland Islands from Stockholm to Turku, Finland on the Summer Solstice -- it never gets full dark in summer. But there are plenty of hazards to beware of, millions of rocks for example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1s4qoYKCqM&feature=player_embedded
Sound like fun.