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Calendar 2026 - PREVIEW


Happy New Year, SOLers all, and, here, without further ado is an early outline for your sailonline.org Racing Programme 2026. This year, the long tradition of recognizing the most dedicated and winniest SOLer with a SUPerSOLer award will be replaced by instead recognizing the SOLer who scores best overall over the 43 planned buddied races after 6 discards with a new SUPerBUDdy prize.

This year also, we shall discontinue the All-Round Championships, replacing this series, with a number of special series, some new, some repeats. The annual ever-popular Ocean Championship, Sprint Championship, and TIMED Championship, however continue, as before. Click on the images to discover more about these always fiercely contested annual contests.

Some, in fact most, of the races of the Ocean Championships will also count towards other series, namely a Round the Old World series, a Round the New World series, and The Migrations series, which latter will also include two races of insufficient length and duration to be proper SOL Ocean races. And one Ocean race, the Cape to Rio, which starts before the New Year is a buddy-up and thus will count towards the SUPerBUDdy title. Click on the images to discover more about these three new series.

Three of last year’s other special series will repeat in 2026, but each with a subtle difference. Our four-race iceboat series will be restyled as the New Ice Age in the form of four long-distance races, two in the Arctic, two in the Antarctic. Our balloon series will reduce by one in number to three, but will be across land, ignoring land/water boundaries entirely. And our Red Eye series, of races in high resolution weather generally overnight, will increase to eleven in number, and will include buddied races whenever possible. Click on the images to discover more about these three series.

Two further series complete the challenges for you to take on, both determined by the likelihood of variability and surprise in forecasted weather; the Magical Mediterranean series of eleven races including several buddy-ups; and the Cross the Convergence Zones series of nine races, each and every one crossing the Equator. Click on the images below to discover more about these two new series.

       

Finally, as always, many of our buddied races that will all count towards the SUPerBUDdy prize, will themselves be part of various short series, including this year our two races to Tasmania in partnership with the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria, which we are adding to our traditional year-end double from New South Wales to Tasmania and back to create a new Tasman Quadruple. Click on any of the images below for further details about any of these buddied-up series.

   

       

       

Fair winds from SOL to all!

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Cape Town to Rio 2025

Welcome to South Africa and one of offshore sailing’s most iconic challenges: the Cape2Rio Yacht Race, crossing the South Atlantic from Cape Town, South Africa, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. First run in 1971, this legendary event has tested sailors for decades with powerful trade winds, shifting weather systems, and long tactical stretches of blue-water racing. Sailonline is proud to partner once again with the Royal Cape Yacht Club, in cooperation with the late Clube do Rio de Janeiro, alongside the Cape2Rio 2025!

Although officially announced as the 2025 edition with a December 27 start, this race also marks the kickoff of the 2026 Sailonline Ocean Championship season. The virtual fleet will compete in the spectacular C2R74, Mark Mills’ 74-foot speedster designed for outright performance and relentless pace. Expect fast reaching, strategic positioning, and classic South Atlantic decision-making.

Registration opens 23 December 2025 at 12:00 UTC, with the starting gun firing 27 December 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Get ready for a true ocean classic!

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Christmas to Christmas Island 2025 - RESULTS


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CONGRATULATIONS bonknhoot !!!
CONGRATULATIONS Garagiste !!
CONGRATULATIONS BRENTGRAY !

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The final Ocean Race of 2025 proved to be a truly memorable event. A fleet of 154 courageous skippers set out on this demanding 6,900-nautical-mile voyage, and by the time of writing, 125 competitors had successfully crossed the finish line. As is tradition for this Christmas race, the fleet explored no fewer than four distinct strategic routes:
1. North of the Philippines, continuing through the South China Sea
2. South of the Philippines, a myriad of options (boat #80, finishing 30 hours behind the winner)
3. South of Australia (boat #102, 82 hours behind) 4. Through the Torres Strait, boat #123, arriving roughly one week after the winner


The race began with a downwind start, raising the immediate question: port or starboard tack? Roughly 80% of the fleet opted for a port-tack start, committing to a north-westerly course aligned with strategies 1 or 2. The northern group remained largely cohesive, with only a handful of skippers occasionally deviating from the plan. In contrast, the south-western contingent appeared less settled, experimenting more with their routing choices. On Day 4, a significant split occurred within the main group when roughly one-third gybed southwest. This maneuver ultimately failed to deliver gains, and those boats rejoined the leaders approximately 100 nautical miles behind.

In the end, only about a dozen boats from the main pack chose to sail south of the Philippines. Once the fleet rounded the northern tip of Luzon, routing options narrowed considerably. The South China Sea delivered steady northeasterly winds, offering little opportunity for tactical divergence. One particularly bold skipper attempted an alternative route, but the gamble backfired, resulting in a loss of six positions. Further south, neither the Java Sea nor the Sunda Strait produced any decisive shifts in the standings. At the finish, competition at the front was fierce: the leading dozen boats arrived within just three hours, and an additional 61 competitors crossed the line within the 24 hours mark, underscoring the tight racing conditions throughout the fleet.

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Sinbad by Balloon 2025 - Carnarvon to Dondra - RESULTS


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CONGRATULATIONS jay8s !!!
ONNITTELUT BS1 !! GEFELICITEERD DIKKEHENK !

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Well? Well, well, well, it wasn't easy, but Sinbad the Balloonist in the end got back to Dondra, together with just 25 SOL-looning genies/geniuses of the 74-strong floatilla ! As there were many days, uh.. weeks, in the doldrums anywhere between Sri Lanka and Madagascar, marking time, working north whenever a waft of wind permitted, to get out of the easterlies into the westerlies, there was time for a few reports - one from each tread on the podium and one nearly from the podium. Read them and find out what went on - worries would the provisions last, tricks for floating upwind, luck and strategy!

As in our previous bal-gattas, new names again showed at the front of the floatilla, with jay8s this time being the first to land. Fantastic floating, jay8s! The series overall was won by the redoubtable WRmirekd, who told us that he was using this race for experimenting, which would appear to have not worked! Yes, in a balloon anybody can get unstruck.

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Cape Town to Rio 2026

Welcome to South Africa and RCYC's classic transatlantic Cape2Rio Race from Cape Town, South Africa, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. First run in 1971, this run is buddied with the IRL, Cape2Rio 2025 arranged by the Royal Cape Yacht Club with the cooperation of the
Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro Despite this being announced the 2025 race (starting dec. 27) it is the 2026 SOL championship kickoff. This virtual version, will be raced once again in Mark Mills' 74ft speedster, the stunning C2R74.
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Race starts: Dec 27th 12:00 Registration Open!

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ORCV Melbourne to Hobart 2025

Welcome to the legendary Westcoaster, a true test of endurance and seamanship that’s challenged sailors for over 50 years! Spanning 435 nautical miles, this iconic race takes the fleet from Melbourne, across the wild Bass Strait, and around Tasmania’s rugged west coast to Hobart. Organized by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria, this year our SOLers will be racing the sleek and powerful Dehler 46—a fast, elegant regatta cruiser built for both speed and adventure. Get ready for an unforgettable offshore classic!
Race #1952
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Ranking: SYC
Race starts: Dec 27th 02:30 Registration Open!
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Tasman Double 2025 - Sydney to Hobart

Christmas in Summer? Indeed! Kick off the first leg of our two-leg Tasman Double series in the classic 625nm Sydney to Hobart race, this year in the upgraded SuperMaxi 100v2. Inspired by Neville Crichton’s legendary Alfa Romeo II and her near-sister Wild Oats XI, these yachts blaze across online and real-world waters alike. Feel the thrill even in storm-force winds as you tackle the Tasman Sea—dock in Hobart victorious, or at least in time for a well-earned post-Christmas drink!
Race #1953
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Ranking: TD - SYC
Race starts: Dec 26th 02:00 Registration Open!
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Valletta Sprint 2025


We invite you once again to this SOL classic around the Middle Sea, departing from and returning to historic Valletta. Loseley modelled on an IRL classic often sponsored by a luxury wristwatch purveyor, our c 600nm course takes us north as far as Stromboli, then west of Sicily and south to Lampedusa and back to Valletta probably via the strait between Malta and Gozo. This year we will race it all in very Meddy Dufour 40’s!
Race #1949
INFO by brainaid.de
Dufour 40 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
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Ranking: SYC
RACE CLOSE: Monday,
December 29 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Dec 20th 11:00 Registration Open!
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Chatham Island TIMED Chase 2025

The final TIMED race of 2025 takes us to the isolated and mysterious Chatham Islands archipelago 430 nm east of New Zealand’s South Island. There promises to be plenty of breeze from every point on the compass as we sail the Farr 38 around Chatham Island, Pitt Island, and The Forty Fours on this 124 nm course. This is a TIMEDrace so you may RE-REGISTER HEREto try again after finishing a run. You will have 13 days and 11 hours to test your skill and decision making after the race opens.
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Farr 38 Particulars
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking:
TRQ4 - TRCH - SUPSOL - SYC
RACE CLOSE: Saturday,
27 December at 23:00 UTC
Race starts: Dec 14th 12:00 Registration Open!
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