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16 January 2026


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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Lake Ontario 300 Challenge 2026

Lake Ontario Offshore Racing (LOOR) welcomes Sailonline sailors to a second virtual version of a race in their annual series, and for the sixth year in succession the LO300. As the name implies, the LO300 is a 300nm offshore race across the length and breadth of Lake Ontario, from and back to Port Credit YC. This year, for the first time, we will be racing the 300nm circuit in Sun Fast 3200s. As usual, there is an overall prize for the SOLer who best bosses Lake Ontario over the two races hosted by Sailonline, this LO300 and the Susan Hood raced back in May, and this year also the race and the Susan Hood count towards the title of Super Buddy 2026; so, let the competition be fierce!
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Tall Ships 2026 - Harlingen to Antwerpen


Welcome to the second of four virtual Tall Ships Races in European waters which are concurrently being organized in-real-life by Sail Training International . This second race is from Harlingen in Friesland down along the coast of Holland and Friesland to Vlaanderen’s famous port of Antwerpen – circa 150nm in Sailonline’s classic Clipper 240.
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Race #1993
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Ranking: TSI - SUPBUD - SYC
Race starts: Jul 06th 16:00 Registration Open!
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Alaska to Easter Island 2026

Welcome to yet another all-new series. The initial leg of the RNW (Round the New World), Alaska to Easter Island, also part of our Ocean Championship. The first race of OCQ3 2026. This race will be sailed in our revised 'version 2' Imoca 60 Foil. Race #2042
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Ranking: OCQ3 - RNW - OCCH - SYC
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Cross the Convergence 2026 - Sao Tomé to Tristan

The fifth race of our series of ocean voyages across the World’s convergence zones takes us back south down the Atlantic from Sao Tomé on the Equator to Tristan da Cunha on the edge of the Roaring Forties. It’s 2500nm; in your path the Benguela winds and current along the south west African coast, and behind that the St Helena High stretching halfway to South America. So, mind where you go in your Volvo OD65 version 3 (based on sampled real-life race data by kroppyer)!
Race #1985
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Ranking: CCZ - SYC
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New Ice Age 2026 - Neumayer Station to Scott Base


For a second-half of long-distance ice-boating, we take our DNs to Antarctica for a circumnavigation of that continent in two legs clockwise, in harmony with the prevailing winds (such as there are), beginning with a race from Germany’s Neumayer Station to New Zealand’s Scott Base. It’s about 3500nm, which, if there’s wind at all, should, well-wrapped in your DN-cockpits, not take you much more than five days. And remember: charts down here are unreliable – what is land and what is ice?!
Race #1970
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WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: NIA - SYC
Race starts: Jul 02nd 07:00 Registration Open!
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