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Silverrudder 2025 - RESULTS


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CONGRATULATIONS CollegeFund!!!
CONGRATULATIONS AWoL!! CONGRATULATIONS BRENTGRAY!

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The 2025 edition of the Silverrudder – Challenge of the Sea was a thrilling and unforgettable race! Sixty determined SOLers took to the waters around Denmark’s island of Funen, leaving the island to port as announced at the skipper’s briefing. Known for its narrow straits and shifting winds, this year’s conditions surprised many—steady winds replaced the usual light breezes, making for fast and tactical sailing.

After a gripping contest around the island, CollegeFund of the USA crossed the finish line first, securing a well-earned victory. AWoL of the United Kingdom followed just eight seconds later in a nail-biting finish, with BRENTGRAY of South Africa close behind to complete a truly international podium.

Congratulations to all 49 finishers and every skipper who took part in this classic solo challenge!

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Red Eye - Frisian Isles Trophy 2025 - RESULTS


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FELICITATIONS KaSToR !!!
GEFELICITEERD bonknhoot !! FELICITATIONS ForbanduCollet44 !

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Our last race of our new 'Red Eye' Series was a short and sharp affair of little more than 13 hours duration, so that, with a start at 12:00 UTC, only our antipodean friends had to suffer much 'red eye' getting round our course across the German Wattensee. And, despite our weather being modulated at high resolution for local effects, the wind was remarkably straight, and the polar of the Farr400s that we ventured forth in also remarkably round - a polar like a billaird ball, erstwhile SOLer A2 would have opined.

So the race was going to be won by high precision finesse, including a sharp rounding of the buoy at Helgoland, and who better to show us how that was to be done, than the race winner and Series winner, KaSToR, new to the SOL this year, but clearly with quite some considerable practice elsewhere under his belt.

And never resting on his laurels, KaSToR has also graced us with a report, which you will find under the button above (modelled on the flag of Ostfriesland). Well worth a read! Well done, KaSToR!!

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Mistli's Birthday BBQ Race 2025 - RESULTS


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GRATULACJE WRmirekd !!!
CONGRATULATIONS Sadlersailing !! FELICITATIONS KaSToR !

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Ninety SOLers made it to the line for Mistli's annual birthday bash through the maze of SLIs and skerries of the Stockholm Archipelago, and well told sixty-seven made it all the way to Mistli's jetty at Trosa, enjoying some very close racing along the way, as can be gleaned from the report under the button above from last year's winner, KaSToR.

However, this year it was the turn of WRmirekd to take the gold, who must have had a ding-dong battle with Sadlersailing, back from gone away and as ever very competitive, and only for WRmirekd spotting a course south of the long island identified on the charts as Askö for the approach to Trosa to be quicker, if a little longer, Sadlersailing might have enjoyed the limelight instead. Well done, Mirek, and try some more, Sadler - good to see you out!

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Camel or Balloon 2025 - Khartoum to N'Djamena - RESULTS


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GRATULACJE RyBa !!!
GRATULACJE WRmirekd !! FELICITATIONS blackcat !

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No offence intended, but if only Erwin Rommel had been of Prussian descent and better still Ferdinand von Zeppelin as well, then maybe our Polish friends might have been able to offer some sort of explanation for their dirigible desert dominance in our experimental race from the banks of the White Nile to the banks of the Chari, and not a drop of water in between. But Rom and Zep were Wuertembergers and RyBa, WRmirekd and garent finished 1st, 2nd and 4th anyway, kept from a clean-podium-sweep appropriately enough by blackcat from France, the nation that founded Fort Lamy later to become N'Djamena. Well done, all!

And yes, the experiment worked. A sleight of hand in defining the topography tiles that create our charts makes the race engine ignore all land/water boundaries, so that our balloons float everywhere, except over the edge of our chart world. Moreover, we also learned that desert wind is highly variable, diurnal perhaps, so that unfavourable winds and favourable winds follow each other with some regularity, giving your average balloonist a better chance of getting to There, eventually. Unlike, for example on the Indian Ocean where once the monsoon settles down, patience turns to petrifaction.

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Raja Muda Selangor 2025 - Penang to Langkawi

Welcome to the third online race of the Raja Muda Selangor International offshore series – a 70nm final trip further north again up the Malacca Strait from Penang to the exotic island of Langkawi, and again in J-109s.
Race #1963
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Raja Muda Selangor 2025 - Pangkor to Penang

Welcome back on board your J-109 for our second online offshore race in cooperation with the Raja Muda Selangor International organisation – an 80nm trip from Pangkor north up the Malacca Strait to Penang.
Race #1962
INFO by brainaid.de
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Raja Muda Selangor 2025 - Port Klang to Pangkor

Sailonline is delighted to be able to offer online sailors an opportunity to once again compete in all three of the offshore races of the Raja Muda Selangor International race week, organised by the Royal Selangor Yacht Club in association with the RORC, and commencing with a 75nm trip from Port Klang to Pangkor. This year we will be racing this race, and the other two, which together will count towards our Sailonline Raja Muda Series (RMS), in J-109s.
Race #1961
INFO by brainaid.de
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Ranking: RMS - SYC
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November 20 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Nov 15th 04:00 Registration Open!

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Africa by Sea 2025 - Suez to Port Said


When Napoleon (briefly) occupied Egypt at the turn to the 19th C, he ordered his expedition’s Directeur des Ponts et Chaussées, Jacques-Marie Le Père, to evaluate the ancient, derelict, infilled course of a Ptolemaic canal connecting the Red Sea to the Nile via the Great Bitter Lake, versus a new canal to the Mediterranean directly. Neither were considered feasible – locks to climb a pauvre-surveyed 10m sea-level difference, or continuous dredging of the Nile, would both be equally financially prohibitive. Fifty years passed before the unlikeliness of Le Père’s survey finding was challenged and a French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez obtained a 99-year concession from the Khedive of Egypt, Said Pasha, to construct and operate a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, much against the will of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdulmecid I (the Pasha’s nominal overlord), and the wishes of the (Irish) British prime minister, Lord Palmerston. The year was 1859, the very number of this race (planning, dear boy, planning!), which, despite the canal’s double-super-tanker gauge and lack of locks, is strictly prohibited to sailors IRL. But not SOLers! 85nm in Fareast 28Rs to complete your circumnavigation of Africa!
Race #1859
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November 18 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Nov 12th 17:00 Registration Open!
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Round Hong Kong TIMED Race 2025

This month’s TIMED race takes us to the hectic, bustling sea lanes of the South China Sea for a 118 nm race beginning and ending in Hong Kong rounding several of the 260 nearby islands along the way. The boat for this race is the South African built Cape 31. 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.
Race #1964
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RACE CLOSE: Saturday,
22 November at 23:00 UTC
Race starts: Nov 09th 12:00 Registration Open!
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Fernando de Noronha to Faroe 2025

The RWW Series concludes with a spectacular journey from Fernando de Noronha to the Faroe Islands, a legendary destination in the wild North Atlantic. Panning 4,100 nautical miles, this leg will be a true test of endurance, strategy, and sheer determination. Also the penultimate leg of the 2025 Ocean Championship, it’s your chance to prove your mettle against the sea, the wind, and yourself. We’ll be racing aboard the Ragamuffin 100, a vessel built for speed and challenge — demanding planning, precision and grit from every sailor on deck. Do you have what it takes to master the Northern Atlantic?.
PRIZE: SMPF
Race #1960
INFO by brainaid.de
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Ranking: RWW - OCQ4 - OCCH - SUPSOL - SYC
RACE CLOSE: Monday,
November 24 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Nov 03rd 11:00 Registration Closed
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Sinbad by Balloon 2025 - Carnarvon to Dondra


From here, our home in Bharatavarṣa is now north west of us – said Sinbad to his fellow balloonists. Perhaps we can ride the wind first further north, and then catch the winds that every year bring the rain, perhaps not. It’s 2600nm and we could be aloft awhile, so, Master el-Quarters, victuals only, no sandbags, provisioning the giant hamper. It will be not a picnic!
Race #1886
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Ranking: SYC - SBB
Race starts: Oct 15th 11:00 Registration Closed
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  1. Sailonline Yacht Club Member KaSToR
  2. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CriticalHippo
  3. Sailonline Yacht Club Member WRmirekd
  4. Sailonline Yacht Club Member vida
  5. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rafa
  6. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CollegeFund
  7. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Panpyc
  8. Sailonline Yacht Club Member brellis
  9. Sailonline Yacht Club Member BRENTGRAY
  10. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Sax747

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