My local sailing club arrange the Alnö runt regatta every year, where we sail around the island Alnö outside Sundsvall (Sweden). The course is around 25 NM long and is a SRS regatta (SRS is the Swedish Sailing Federation’s Rating System). The race is usually in June, but due to Covid 19 we was forced to sail a short handed version of the race in June, and had an extra full crew normal race in August when Corona restrictions is less strict.

I did not mange to get together any crew at all so I sailed it single-handed. The start was in very light winds, around 1-2 m/s but the seabreeze built just after start and built some during the day. The first part of the race was a beat upwind in light air and I performed very nicely and was head of most similar SRS boats. Then we turned the south east corner of the island Alnö and got a in to nice reach/run in 5-6 m/s wind all the way to the north west corner of the island. I had beautiful gennaker sailing and hold my ground well. But then we turned the corner and came in to the Alnö straight, between the island and mainland. This is a narrow straight that offered very puffy and shifting winds. We had wind between 3 m/s and 9-10 m/s in puffs and fast shifts up to 40 degrees back and forth. That kind of puffy shifting wind in a narrow straight is very challenging when sailing single-handed in this boat so I lost a lot to competing boats on the long beet back to finish.

But I had a nice day on the water with beautiful weather and nice sailing.
One if the pictures show my AIS track from MarineTraffic during the day.

A local race around the cans in Sundsvall area. I did not find any crew for the day and sail alone, in very gusty wind up to 12 m/s. It was really a challenge to handle the gusts and shifts alone not using the autopilot. So I did not preformed good at all, but it was fun.

A 95 nautical miles long small offshore race in the north part of the Bothnian Sea.
We had varying winds over the 22 hours it took, from 2-4 m/s at times to 8-12 m/s some times. The night sailing was amazing, clear night with beautiful stars and 3-5 m/s wind on a long beat. The end leg was a nice gennaker run in 8-11 m/s in beautiful weather.
A very nice race.

My local sailing club arrange the Alnö runt regatta every year, where we sail around the island Alnö outside Sundsvall (Sweden). The course is around 25 NM long and is a SRS regatta (SRS is the Swedish Sailing Federation’s Rating System) and we had 28 boats starting this year. Due to Covid 19 we was forced to sail it short handed (regulations from Swedish Sailing Federation).
The race went ok and I finished on 12th place out of 28 boats.

My local sailing club arrange the Alnö runt regatta every year, where we sail around the island Alnö outside Sundsvall (Sweden). The course is around 25 NM long and is a SRS regatta (SRS is the Swedish Sailing Federation’s Rating System).

I bought my Elan 210 early June 2019, and picked it up on trailer in Stockholm the same week as the regatta. I got the boat in the water and sailed it a few NM from the ramp to my home port the day before the regatta. SO the boat was brand new for me when the regatta started, and I also had only one crew, a very inexperienced sailer.

The regatta day offered very little wind, some puffs coming and going but also hours with absolutely no wind at all.
The weak wind resulted in that only half of the around 30 boats that started got into goal before the max time run out. I was one of the boats that run out of time.