The European Championship is on the way. Today we had two races in 6-8 knots of wind. In the first race the pin end was clearly favored, and I managed to get a rather good start a few boats up from the pin. Having good pressure and a clear line i continued out on the [...]
Been at home for a few weeks, practice winter-sailing, working-out at the gym and beeing real ill. Now Im up in the air using the WiFi on the flight (great!) and have high motivation to jump back into my Finn. On the 19th the European Championship starts and until then it will be training, bikeing [...]
2nd at Cannes Olympic Week
Cannes, first stop on this years racing calander. Welcome to swedish summer, with sunshine and heat, we did however have some issues on finding wind during the first three days. Leaving us with only 4 conducted races on three days, all made in light and shifty conditions which really put the sailors to a challenge. [...]
Continue Reading →Snow sailing
Ok, I leave sweden to be able to sail and hopefully get some degrees warmer weather. The two first days of training was cold but ok, today we had a lot of snow and had to wait until the afternoon to go sailing. Once on the water it was great! Real fun to be back [...]
Continue Reading →Takeoff sailing season 2012
Sitting at the airport, takeoff in 30 minutes. Destination Salzburg, Austria, a perfect place for sailing this time of the year… Well maybe not. Will have one day at the Doyle Raudaschl sailloft, before Florian Raudaschl and I head down to Hyeres for sailing tomorrow morning. The plan is to focus on partly matchrace, to [...]
Continue Reading →Takeoff, destination Perth
Time to leave Sweden for slightly warmer Australia. Preparing for the upcoming World Championship in beginning of december. Will be lovely to once again visit Perth, Fremantle, that served us last winter with absolutly fantastic sailingcondition. Last year I finished 8th at the Pre Worlds, and I hope to be able to find the same [...]
Continue Reading →Video and pictures from Lake Garda
Training camp at Lake Garda
The second training camp down at Lake Garda is now to an end. This time we had just the conditions we were hoping for and expecting – windy. We put effort in improving our starts, by various exercises, some of them probably looked slightly strange, but improved the feeling for finding the starting line. We [...]
Continue Reading →4th at Italian Championship
The Italian Championship in the Finn Class gathered not less then 12 nations, all down at Lake Garda preparing for the upcoming Worlds down in Australia in December. It felt real good to be competing again, last regatta was in July. Some times the best practice is competing. During three days we were challenged by [...]
Continue Reading →Training camp in Garda
Now down in Garda, Italy for two weeks of training and racing. On the trip down one started to wonder if one had made the right decision leaving sweden. The reason, in Austria their was snow… Once we reached Garda, the snow was however long gone and the temperature reached 25 degrees celsius. During the [...]
Continue Reading →Sailbjörn on twitter
- Yesterday evening after sailing we had a very serious mini table tennis tournament between SWE, AUT, TUR and USA http://t.co/pWClEkIr 2012/05/09
- Yesterday it looked like no wind in the harbour, but out on the race area we had 8 knots and hiking :) :) you must lile that 2012/05/09
- Today light winds in Falmouth, long long upwind and then wind die, lucky enough the AUS coach also gave me a toe! 2012/05/04
- On Calais-Dover ferry, plan is to be in Falmouth tonight and tomorrow start preparing for the Worlds 10-18th of May 2012/05/03
- Have had some windy days in Hyeres :) Tomorrow is measurement and a short sailing session 2012/04/20




