2.4 mR Open Nordic Championships

Sailed again august 7-8 after some year’s brake in Mariehamn hosted by MSF (Mariehamns Segelförening). Mariehamn is the capital of archipelago Aaland wich all belongs to Finland. This is an almost perfect site for this venue situated between the two biggest 2.4 mR fleets in the world.

The organizing committee did a great job, courses were excellent despite the shifting and sometimes non excisting wind, light 0-6 m/sek, varying between north and south. Weed occupied most of the racing area slowing boatspeeds down significantly when sticking to keel and rudder. You had to manage somehow to get rid of it.

15 swedes, 14 finns, 4 norwegians and one sailor from Poland fought for the medals but , as expected, the swedes tok them all.

5 World Champions, Peter Norlin (1996), Stellan Berlin (2000,2001,2002,2004, 2007 and 2008), Lennart Heselius (2006), Rikard Bjurström (1998) and Bo Hedensjö (???? beginning 1990’s) attended and ended up in the 7 top; Stellan Nordic Champion, Lennart 4th, Peter 5th, Rikard 6th and Bosse 7th.

2010 Sail for Gold Regatta
Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy

First Place: Damien Seguin 15pts.
2nd Place: Thierry Schmitter 18pts.
3rd Place: Kol Barend 34 pts.

Full results

2.4 Meter, Open Canadian Championships were held this past weekend in Toronto at National Yacht club, as usual they put on a fine event but the conditions were, to say the least, 'trying'. Saturday started out with plenty of promise nice winds but increasing velocity. The decision was made to move the course to the inner harbor. There we had 3 races and, with increasing winds, plenty of carnage, further racing was put on hold because of approaching thunder cells and the fleet headed for shore. The weather did not improve and the racing was cancelled for the day with Bruce Millar in the lead. Saturday, following sailing, we had a 'sailors debrief' where the experts in the class shared their tuning tips with the newer racers. Sunday's forecast was for moderate winds but dropping after noon. The good wind was short lived to get one race in a left dominated course. The wind really got serious and died completely. However, there was some wind farther out so the RC and 2.4's went on the great wind hunt around Slumber Bay. Finally with about three knots of breeze and 1.5 kts of current, a race was started.

Around July 15th,2010, our International Class website went down and the company who was hosting it was not able to be contacted. I had a back up copy from several months ago and installed it on a new server in the USA. At the same time I took on the challenge of developing a new website which I think you will enjoy.

The new website allows you to:

· Register and build your own personal profile which allows others to see info about your sailing and also allows people to search for you and your contact information if you wish to share it.