Posts by author: Sailbjorn
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 →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 →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 →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 [...]
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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 →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 →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 →Welcome to Helsinki summer, its light wind and a lot of sunshine. First day we raced out on the big race course and had three nice races, on the second day, the forecast was, no wind. After a couple hours of waiting, the race committee decided to try to race just outside the club. After [...]
Continue Reading →Taking a few days break from sailing myself. Instead Im coaching Europe Dinghy at the Swedish Junior Championship, in Arkösund, giving me a chance to look at sailing from a different angle. Being back in Arkösund is extra fun, not only because the sun in constantly shining, but also because this is the place were [...]
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