Tight racing on short courses with a least 4 races. An excellent opportunity to get the boat handling started and also practice starts and tactics. Today much better boat speed compared with yesterdays Lidingö Runt. Very challenging conditions with light winds 2-4 knots and shifting directions mainly from North. Göran proved to be a real asset with his short course experience and the whole crew worked hard to get all the maneuvers right. But it was a real fun day out and we l

After a reasonably good start on port we gybed and seeked wind on the starboard side with various results. Soon the wind turned and we started going upwind with our brand new Jibzero which we had a lot of initial problems with. Also the whole boat felt really stiff so we probably had wrong settings and a far to stiff mast. After a long time dealing with this we finally got going a bit better before rounding up before the start of Askrikefjärden. Downwind we managed better see

Just back after a few days of training and preparations outside the sailing center of Sandhamn in clear but cold conditions. We hade the privilege to exercise together with a few other ORCi boats like the two Farr 40s Stormtrooper and Hurrykanen, the Sydney 40 Rush, AlmaViva a First 40 and SALT 2.0 an Arcona 465 Carbon. We did speed checking against each other excellently coordinated by Håkan Forslund from his Sydney 40 named Rush. We had excellent dinners at Sandhamn Värdshu

Another Tuesday evening with mostly dockside preparations with various results. Although we are half way into May, still temperature is unusually cold dipping under zero degrees and with some snow fronts passing by. Tried to get the new furling sails in place and the Karver lock mounted in the rig. Trying to get the sprit mount in the right position was not easy. The new Sheetbags and Winch Covers from Blue Performance matches the boat perfectly. Mats all the way up the rig m