Last year`s Sjögårdsregattan Stockholm City Classic, has been nicknamed the ice-box regatta. It was just so cold, windy and rainy. And this year it has looked worse.The spring has been late, late, late in Stockholm. Many yachts have not been launched yet and only two weeks remain to the races in Stockholm Classic Yacht Week.

Fifty years ago Princess Svanevit, a twelve metre yacht that would have been a crown jewel of the Swedish classic fleet, was sold abroad. For a very long time the whereabouts of this gem designed by Gustaf Estlander, where unknown and yacht aficionados believed she had been lost for ever. But she is still around, on a dock in Britain under another name. Boat builder Bobby Cyrus is hoping to bring her back to Sweden. He will talk about Estlander`s masterpiece at the Stockholm Baltic Classic Week Seminar. Don`t miss the seminar, you  can find the invitation in the column to the right.

Now it is time to prepare for your participation in the Baltic Classic Master Cup 2013. Last year`s winner was team La Morena, the 95 sq m Swedish yacht. Here the skipper Nils and co-skipper Artur receive the GL Watson trophy. The winner in 2011 was the Russian L6 NIka and in 2010 the Swedish 10mR Itaka.

Three beautiful historic cities on the Baltic Sea welcome you to a grand regatta series in the summer of 2013.The three Baltic Classic Yacht Weeks will be based on major regatta events in Stockholm, Saint Petersburg and Helsinki. They include a number of land-based activities promoting our cultural yacht heritage, the unique Baltic Sea archipelagos and environmental issues.

Stockholm Classic Yacht Week. May 23 - 26,  marks the start of the season for the many wooden boats in the waters of Stockholm. Ideal cruising waters with many islands and beautiful historic vistas surround the city.

Last year`s Saint Petersburg Classic Yachts Week was a great success that many international visitors missed because it was late in the season. Classic Boat, the world`s leading classic yacht magazine wrote: "The most impressive and beautiful regatta supported by all classic yacht lovers in the Baltics took place in the city of th Czars."

In 2013 SCYT and the St Petersburg Yacht Club will start the event already July 23rd and there will be plenty of time to sail to Russia and back from Sweden and other distant ports before work starts again after the vacations. Visitors should prepare for a warm welcome in many ways. St Petersburg can be hot in July.

Helsinki has become the hotbed of classic yacht racing in the Baltic. The regatta program for the 2013 season includes an entire week of sports, social and cultural events and exhibitions. The Unesco world heritage site, Suomenlinna fortress,will be at the heart of the activities. It can accomodate hundreds of participating yachts and opens up the Helsinki Classic Yacht Week to tens of thousands of visitors, August 3rd – 10th.

Swedish 95 sq m La Morena won the Baltic Classic Master Cup with Swedish 10mR Itaka finishing second. The magnificent GL Watson cup will be presented to Nils Forsfält and the La Morena team at the prize giving ceremony for the Scandal Beauty Trophy Race in Stockholm, Sunday September 2nd.

The Swedish offshore cruiser Athena won the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Baltic Classic Masters in Helsinki. Two days of tough and windy sailing conditions gave the following results 1) Athena, Sweden, 2) Friendship II, Finland, 3) La Morena, Sweden and 4) Gun, Finland. La Morena won the FinnLYS class, but the result was different with the Baltic Rule for Classic Yachts. Check sailsandsea for more great Jorma Rautapää pictures.

Saint Petersburg Yacht Club and its Commodore Vladimir Lyubomirov has great aspirations for Russian Classic Yachting. SCYT has signed a  partnership agreement with the yacht club. The two organizations will develop the Baltic Classic Circuit focusing on three major future events: the Stockholm, Helsinki and Saint Petersburg Classic Yacht Weeks.
The purpose of the agreement is to raise the attraction and visibility of the Circuit and Baltic  classic yachting in general.

Tom Jacoby from Finland has declared he will race 75 sq m Gun for the Baltic Classic Master Cup. Gun will participate in the olympic jubilee races at Nynäshamn, Sweden, the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Masters and the Viapori Tuoppi in Helsinki. Gun finished 5th in last year`s cup.

The 95 sq m S10 La Morena has declared she will race for the Baltic Classic Master Cup. She will race in Nynäshamn, Mariehamn and Helsinki and also plans to participate in St Petersburg.

Last year Finland`s TV4 run two programs from the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Regatta and the Baltic Classic CIrcuit. Part of the program is in English. Here you can watch what Ingmar Bergman, captain of 10mR Itaka, his colleagues Alexey Rusetsky on the newly built Holm-designed Astra II and Magnus Swahn on SK 75  Trumph from 1921,  think of the regatta circuit.

The Saint Petersburg Classic Yacht Week is the first of its kind in Russia`s beautiful and historic former capital. After three days of races, the bridges will open and the yachts will be welcomed into the Neva river where they will moor in the very city center, across from the Winter Palace. In the past only the Volvo Ocean Race yachts have been shown this honor.
The first three days the yachts will be based at the Hercules marina a new top class facitlity.

The entry to the Neva river requires some minor paperwork which you need to complete as soon as possible. Here you can find  more information.

The 1920`s racing schooner Troubadour will stay in The Caribbean until next spring. The planned crossing in late April had to be postponed because of initial engine troubles and unfavorable winds .

The Pommern Regatta is the perfect meeting point for the Swedish and Finnish classic yacht fleets. This summer it will start at Rödhamn island 10 nm south of Mariehamn, Åland.  The yachts will race to Mariehamn, spend a night there and then race back to the island.

The first ever 22 sq m British championships will be held at Cremyll in Eastern Cornwall in June. British entries will be Vigilant, Patriot, Chadrak,  Caritana and Cremyll Keelboats` latest addition Solve (so far). It is an open championship, so there will also be international yachts in the race.

Three new events will be added to the BCC program 2012:
The Classic Boat Meet, part of the Jubilee commemorating the Olympic Sailing Races in Nynäshamn, Sweden, 1912, Some of the yachts that participated in 1912 will be back. One of them is the Swedish Olympic Gold Medal Winner 10mR Kitty, now flying the Finnish flag.
Another spectacular event is the St Petersburg Classic Week with three days of racing and a two-day festival at the Peter and Paul Fortress in the city center area of St Petersburg.
The new premier event of the season will be Sjögårdsregattan Classic Yacht Race in downtown Stockholm, june 1 - 3. 
The Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta will be back 2013.


Kitty won the Gold Medal for 10mR yachts at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. Here she is celebrating her 100th birth day at the Pommern Classic Regatta 2011, Photo: Olle Appelberg

Nika from St Petersburg with Vadim Manukhin at the helm, won the Baltic Classic Master Cup. Last year`s winner, the Swedish 10mR Itaka, came second and the offshore cruiser Kersti from Finland third. Nika participated in the Arkösund Trosa Coastal Race, the Royal Palace Regatta and the Pommern Regatta in Mariehamn, Finland.
Here are the results listing yachts that qualified for the cup and completed a minuimum of three regattas in two countries. SCYT BCMC final rankings.pdf .

Tom Jacoby and his crew won the the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Classic Master Cup in Helsinki. The French champagne producer has donated a magnificent challenger cup for the Helsinki races and the first winner was Gun a 75 sq m designed by Erik Salander in 1918,

Musto and Baltic Classic Circuit has entered a partnership. "I can`t think of a better fit than with Musto`s Lifestyle yachting line, `Classic Yacht Racing,` " says Olle Appelberg, commercial director of SCYT.
"We hope people will like the idea of Classic Yacht Racing and that this will make them buy the clothes," says Mattias Rahm, brand manager for Musto in Sweden

Now the heat is really on in the competition for Baltic Classic Master Cup 2011. Judd Tinius on Galatea has announced he is crossing the Atlantic to compete in all eight regattas in the Baltic Circuit. Galatea is a fast flush-decked 72ft grand old lady, built in Sweden in 1899. She will now be back in the old country for the first time since 1919. Galatea has twice been the winner of the Antigua Classic and also done very well in Newport and Nantucket. A full length article will be published here shortly.

The Uffa Fox Challenge 2011 is a tough 300 mile archipelago race for small classic yachts from Trosa, Sweden, to Helsinki, Finland. An environmental mission is part of the challenge. The yachts will take daily water samples. The first to take on the challenge is the Finnish hajboat (“shark-boat”) Myrskylintu (fulmar) and its crew Vesa Humalisto, Petri Wilska and Mika Talvitie from Espoo Sailing Club outside Helsinki . The picture was taken at the chilly launch of Myrskylintu, May 4.
Update: check-out  Carl Cramer`s comment on this in  Wooden Boat online.

SCYT challenges small yachts to a race from Trosa, Sweden, via Åland to Helsinki, Finland. The race is divided in six legs and the length is 300 nm. The first challenger has pre-registered and the news will be published shortly.  Tose who wants to particaipate can now find details in the Uffa Fox section of this site.

The 2011  yachting season is likely to be the the most promising step forward for classic yachting since plastic began to dominate the Baltic five decades ago. There will be eight regattas in the Baltic Classic Circuit, with different types of racing, sail parades and very enjoyable shore events. "The  Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Baltic Classic Master Cup party in Helsinki last summer defintely set a new standard for wooden boat events in the Nordic countries, " says Olle Appelberg, executive director of SCYT.

10mR yacht Itaka has become the first winner of the Baltic Classic Master Cup under very different racing conditions in the waters off Helsinki. The HSS regatta on Friday pitted her against the fast Aarworyn and Finnish Kitty in close match racing in choppy seas and strong winds. Aarworyn won the day with a fantastic show of tactics.

The Baltic Classic Circuit has become a great media success with news coverage in print media, internet, social media, radio and television. Finnish yacht photograper Jorma Rautapää (see his gallery) covered three events, Japanese photographer Yoichi Yabe spent the week i Trosa and the Royal Palace Regatta was also covered by German and Swedish photographers. Here is a picture from the Sail Parade at Tullgarn Royal Palace.

The Russian L6 offshore cruiser Nika was the best international yacht in the Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta total score. Swedish 95 sq m Kerma won and 55 sq m Rio came second. 

The Swedish 95 sq m Kerma with Claes Ahlin at the helm won the final race of the Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta on Saturday. 10mR Aaworyn finished second and Mälar (a Swedish one-design sq m) 25 Felicia third. The best performing international yacht was the Russian L6 Nika on 6th place. The Swiss A22 Solong helmed by Adrian Schmidlin finished 15th, the British SK22  Vigilant and A22 Patriot finished 27 and 36 and Finnish 10mR Kitty 38.  SATURDAY RES. reviderat.pdf

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended the final race of the Royal Palace Regatta on Saturday. The King, who was at the helm of his own motor yacht, takes a keen interest in classic boats, and is personally involved in the creation of a classic yacht center in Stockholm, Nya Djurgårdvarvet.

This morning, a red and white striped pennant (flag "AP", in Swedish popularly called "apan" ie "the monkey") could be seen over the Trosa guest harbor: The start signal was postponed about an hour with the hope of more wind. Once the races started, sailors reported a large audience. Go to the "Read more" to see the preliminary results of all races up to race No 6.

"It has worked out great today," says race manager Fredrik Hedlund. "Everyone did what they were supposed to do on time. We had no false starts. And, as far as I know, no men overboard," he smiles.

 At 2000 hours Thursday night, Vixen entered the Swedish archipelago and the channel towards Studsvik and Trosa. The weather was rainy and moderate winds were increasing, so only two boats were there to greet them - and,  also,  they were there three hours earlier than expected. Two and a half hours later Vixen docked in total darkness after some interesting passages between rocks and islands.

The Vixen crew was a bit tired but very happy arriving in Brunsbuttel Thursday night. They had a good run up the North Sea 120 hours door to door The low point was around Europort/Zeebrugge where in combination with the terrible pollution, they were stopped by the coastguard and forced to backtrack for six hours to go down the inshore shipping route.

Vixen arrived in Brunsbuettel at the entrance of the Kiel Canal at around 19.30 Thursday night, almost two days eariler tha expected. The little yacht has been moving at a tremendous speed and has logged an average of 6.7 knots since Cowes. They are taking a brief stop to charge up batteries and then are hoping to pick up a tow to assist the trip through the Canal today. Showers and beer were also on the agenda.  Pictures and more information will follow later today.

Vixen reported a very slow Monday. Tuesday morning they had reached Hoek van Holland and still very little wind, with only 50 miles logged in the past 24 hours. Sampling is going well taking observations and pictures. Luke says they are hoping for more breeze but catching mackerel at least.

Monday morning Vixen reported good speed in light increasing breeze near the Dutch port of Breskens after 200 miles and 40 hours at sea. Luke Yeats added that tanning conditions were good.
Vixen is travelling at a very impressive average speed of 6.2 knots. Follow her at marinetraffic.com.

Vixen reported execellent progress throught the first night at sea, 92 miles. They were at Dungeness by 08.00 Sunday July 18th and expected to cross the channel at Dover by lunchtime. The first measurements were taken Sunday morning.

The tiny 15 sq m skerry cruiser Vixen left Cowes for her 1000 mile journey to Trosa, Sweden, with the four o`clock tide on Saturday. Follow her online at marinetraffic.com. Vixen will be sailing all around the clock and her first planned stop will be in a week`s time at the Kiel Canal.

Three intrepid young British yachtsmen, Luke Yeates, Jack Gifford and Will Shepherd, have taken up the challenge by the Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust, SCYT, for British classic yacht owners to retrace Uffa Fox’s famous 1000 mile, 1930 voyage from Cowes to Stockholm. Sailing the Vixen, a 1937 classic yacht, the team hope to be in Trosa, Sweden, between 3rd and 6th August 2010 for the start of the Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta, part of a new classic series, the Baltic Classic Master Cup.

Nika, a Russian L6 off shore racer from St Petersburg has signed up for Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta in Sweden. Nika was built in 1975 and is part of an entire fleet of little known Russian off-shore racers. She is captained by V. Manuhin. The L6 ocean racer/cruiser was designed by A. Kiselev in 1958.

Yesterday afternoon in the glorious Stockholm sunshine, two magnificent beauties were spotted airing their sails in the inner city. Former Royal Swedish Yacht Club Commodor Calle Piehl, handled 150 sq m Beatrice Aurore with great skill and left R-10 Moana far behind. But - of course - no race had been declared. The gentlemen on the picture are members of Stockholm Yacht Klubb and seem well qualified to score some points at the Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Sail Parade.

One of Sweden`s largest classic yachts has pre-registered for the Royal Palace Regatta. Ballad measures more than LOA 60ft and has a displacement of almost 35 metric tons.

Helsinki is welcoming classic yachts to the spectacular Helsinki 2010 classic event with two consecutive regattas in the city area. Helsingsfors Segelsällskap Yacht Club with the largets classic fleet in Scandinavia starts a new classic regatta on Augúst 13 and the next day it is time for Viapori Cup, with 200 participating boats.

Alca will celebrate her 114th birthday showing off her beautiful slender lines at the Tullgarn Royal Palace. When she was launched in 1896 she stunned the Nordic yachting community. When the owner Martin Geber signed her up for the Tivoli cup, the Finns filed a protest. Alca was five inches too long and she was refused to enter the race.

Four 10mR yachts will be on the starting line at Trosa, Sweden. Kitty, the  Olympic Gold Medal winner in Stockholm 1912, has preregistered for the races. She was designed by Alfred Mylne and built in Turku, Finland, 1911 for a consortium led by Gustaf Estlander.

More than 80 yachts from seven nations have now pre-registered for the races at Trosa Tullgarn. They include about 30 one design 22, 25 and 30 sq m Mälar boats, 22 22 sq m skerry cruisers and 31 other yachts, mostly larger. The yachts participating in Swedish Championships are included in the Royal Palace Regatta at no extra fee.

The Swedish 10mR Itaka is the first yacht to enter the Baltic Classic Master Cup. "We will begin with the Classic Baltic Race out of Sandhamn in July. In August we plan to participate in the Royal Palace Regatta at Trosa and the Viapori Trophy in Helsinki,"  says Itaka`s captain Ingmar Bergman.

Mignon will be heading for the Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta flying the Swedish Norwegian Union flag. When Mignon was launched in the spring of 1905 Sweden and Norway was still united under the same king. The flag was nick-namned the herring salad, because of its mix of colors and shapes in the upper right hand corner (above). Mignon was the first large yacht designed and built by August Plym at Neglinge, Stockholm.

The Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust, SCYT, is launching a new classic regatta with a call to all British classic yacht owners to retrace Uffa Fox’s famous 1930s voyage from Cowes to Stockholm. “We are cordially inviting all classic yachtsmen to celebrate Uffa’s remarkable achievement by sailing up to the Stockholm archipelago to join us for the first Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta,” says Olle Appelberg, Executive Director of the SCYT.
Update: The departure date from Cowes will be changed, allowing 20 days for the journey!

The Grand Old Lady of square meter yachts, Beatrice Aurore, was the first to pre-register for the Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta. SK 150 S1 is the largest of our skerry cruiser measuring 22.2 x 3.5m with an impressive sail area of 150 sq m. On the picture above she is being chased by SK95 Irmelin and Britt-Marie, at the square meter class 100th anniversary race in 2008.

Two new regattas for classic yachts and a Baltic Classic Master Cup series will be launched this year in the northern Baltic and the Gulf of Finland. Races and sail parades will be held in Sandhamn and Trosa in Sweden, Hangö and Helsinki in Finland (above) and in St Petersburg, Russia.

In 2010 the Swedish town of Trosa celebrates its 400 anniversary, launching the first Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta.

The festival (called Trosa Seglar Vackert, in Swedish) will start August 3rd with Swedish and international championships for 22 sq m skerry cruisers (A22) and four classes of mälarboats, the 15, 22, 25 and 30 sq m Swedish one-design yachts.

Russian and Swedish classic yachts had their first "official rendez-vous" ever when Sail Yacht Society of Sweden invited classic yachts of St Petersburg River Yacht Club for a summer meeting at Tullgarn Royal Palace, 50 miles south of Stockholm.

Last year`s Sjögårdsregattan Stockholm City Classic, has been nicknamed the ice-box regatta. It was just so cold, windy and rainy. And this year it has looked worse.The spring has been late, late, late in Stockholm. Many yachts have not been launched yet and only two weeks remain to the races in Stockholm Classic Yacht Week.

Fifty years ago Princess Svanevit, a twelve metre yacht that would have been a crown jewel of the Swedish classic fleet, was sold abroad. For a very long time the whereabouts of this gem designed by Gustaf Estlander, where unknown and yacht aficionados believed she had been lost for ever. But she is still around, on a dock in Britain under another name. Boat builder Bobby Cyrus is hoping to bring her back to Sweden. He will talk about Estlander`s masterpiece at the Stockholm Baltic Classic Week Seminar. Don`t miss the seminar, you  can find the invitation in the column to the right.

Now it is time to prepare for your participation in the Baltic Classic Master Cup 2013. Last year`s winner was team La Morena, the 95 sq m Swedish yacht. Here the skipper Nils and co-skipper Artur receive the GL Watson trophy. The winner in 2011 was the Russian L6 NIka and in 2010 the Swedish 10mR Itaka.

Three beautiful historic cities on the Baltic Sea welcome you to a grand regatta series in the summer of 2013.The three Baltic Classic Yacht Weeks will be based on major regatta events in Stockholm, Saint Petersburg and Helsinki. They include a number of land-based activities promoting our cultural yacht heritage, the unique Baltic Sea archipelagos and environmental issues.

Stockholm Classic Yacht Week. May 23 - 26,  marks the start of the season for the many wooden boats in the waters of Stockholm. Ideal cruising waters with many islands and beautiful historic vistas surround the city.

Last year`s Saint Petersburg Classic Yachts Week was a great success that many international visitors missed because it was late in the season. Classic Boat, the world`s leading classic yacht magazine wrote: "The most impressive and beautiful regatta supported by all classic yacht lovers in the Baltics took place in the city of th Czars."

In 2013 SCYT and the St Petersburg Yacht Club will start the event already July 23rd and there will be plenty of time to sail to Russia and back from Sweden and other distant ports before work starts again after the vacations. Visitors should prepare for a warm welcome in many ways. St Petersburg can be hot in July.

Helsinki has become the hotbed of classic yacht racing in the Baltic. The regatta program for the 2013 season includes an entire week of sports, social and cultural events and exhibitions. The Unesco world heritage site, Suomenlinna fortress,will be at the heart of the activities. It can accomodate hundreds of participating yachts and opens up the Helsinki Classic Yacht Week to tens of thousands of visitors, August 3rd – 10th.

Swedish 95 sq m La Morena won the Baltic Classic Master Cup with Swedish 10mR Itaka finishing second. The magnificent GL Watson cup will be presented to Nils Forsfält and the La Morena team at the prize giving ceremony for the Scandal Beauty Trophy Race in Stockholm, Sunday September 2nd.

The Swedish offshore cruiser Athena won the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Baltic Classic Masters in Helsinki. Two days of tough and windy sailing conditions gave the following results 1) Athena, Sweden, 2) Friendship II, Finland, 3) La Morena, Sweden and 4) Gun, Finland. La Morena won the FinnLYS class, but the result was different with the Baltic Rule for Classic Yachts. Check sailsandsea for more great Jorma Rautapää pictures.

Saint Petersburg Yacht Club and its Commodore Vladimir Lyubomirov has great aspirations for Russian Classic Yachting. SCYT has signed a  partnership agreement with the yacht club. The two organizations will develop the Baltic Classic Circuit focusing on three major future events: the Stockholm, Helsinki and Saint Petersburg Classic Yacht Weeks.
The purpose of the agreement is to raise the attraction and visibility of the Circuit and Baltic  classic yachting in general.

Tom Jacoby from Finland has declared he will race 75 sq m Gun for the Baltic Classic Master Cup. Gun will participate in the olympic jubilee races at Nynäshamn, Sweden, the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Masters and the Viapori Tuoppi in Helsinki. Gun finished 5th in last year`s cup.

The 95 sq m S10 La Morena has declared she will race for the Baltic Classic Master Cup. She will race in Nynäshamn, Mariehamn and Helsinki and also plans to participate in St Petersburg.

Last year Finland`s TV4 run two programs from the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Regatta and the Baltic Classic CIrcuit. Part of the program is in English. Here you can watch what Ingmar Bergman, captain of 10mR Itaka, his colleagues Alexey Rusetsky on the newly built Holm-designed Astra II and Magnus Swahn on SK 75  Trumph from 1921,  think of the regatta circuit.

The Saint Petersburg Classic Yacht Week is the first of its kind in Russia`s beautiful and historic former capital. After three days of races, the bridges will open and the yachts will be welcomed into the Neva river where they will moor in the very city center, across from the Winter Palace. In the past only the Volvo Ocean Race yachts have been shown this honor.
The first three days the yachts will be based at the Hercules marina a new top class facitlity.

The entry to the Neva river requires some minor paperwork which you need to complete as soon as possible. Here you can find  more information.

The 1920`s racing schooner Troubadour will stay in The Caribbean until next spring. The planned crossing in late April had to be postponed because of initial engine troubles and unfavorable winds .

The Pommern Regatta is the perfect meeting point for the Swedish and Finnish classic yacht fleets. This summer it will start at Rödhamn island 10 nm south of Mariehamn, Åland.  The yachts will race to Mariehamn, spend a night there and then race back to the island.

The first ever 22 sq m British championships will be held at Cremyll in Eastern Cornwall in June. British entries will be Vigilant, Patriot, Chadrak,  Caritana and Cremyll Keelboats` latest addition Solve (so far). It is an open championship, so there will also be international yachts in the race.

Three new events will be added to the BCC program 2012:
The Classic Boat Meet, part of the Jubilee commemorating the Olympic Sailing Races in Nynäshamn, Sweden, 1912, Some of the yachts that participated in 1912 will be back. One of them is the Swedish Olympic Gold Medal Winner 10mR Kitty, now flying the Finnish flag.
Another spectacular event is the St Petersburg Classic Week with three days of racing and a two-day festival at the Peter and Paul Fortress in the city center area of St Petersburg.
The new premier event of the season will be Sjögårdsregattan Classic Yacht Race in downtown Stockholm, june 1 - 3. 
The Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta will be back 2013.


Kitty won the Gold Medal for 10mR yachts at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. Here she is celebrating her 100th birth day at the Pommern Classic Regatta 2011, Photo: Olle Appelberg

Nika from St Petersburg with Vadim Manukhin at the helm, won the Baltic Classic Master Cup. Last year`s winner, the Swedish 10mR Itaka, came second and the offshore cruiser Kersti from Finland third. Nika participated in the Arkösund Trosa Coastal Race, the Royal Palace Regatta and the Pommern Regatta in Mariehamn, Finland.
Here are the results listing yachts that qualified for the cup and completed a minuimum of three regattas in two countries. SCYT BCMC final rankings.pdf .

Tom Jacoby and his crew won the the Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Classic Master Cup in Helsinki. The French champagne producer has donated a magnificent challenger cup for the Helsinki races and the first winner was Gun a 75 sq m designed by Erik Salander in 1918,

Musto and Baltic Classic Circuit has entered a partnership. "I can`t think of a better fit than with Musto`s Lifestyle yachting line, `Classic Yacht Racing,` " says Olle Appelberg, commercial director of SCYT.
"We hope people will like the idea of Classic Yacht Racing and that this will make them buy the clothes," says Mattias Rahm, brand manager for Musto in Sweden

Now the heat is really on in the competition for Baltic Classic Master Cup 2011. Judd Tinius on Galatea has announced he is crossing the Atlantic to compete in all eight regattas in the Baltic Circuit. Galatea is a fast flush-decked 72ft grand old lady, built in Sweden in 1899. She will now be back in the old country for the first time since 1919. Galatea has twice been the winner of the Antigua Classic and also done very well in Newport and Nantucket. A full length article will be published here shortly.

The Uffa Fox Challenge 2011 is a tough 300 mile archipelago race for small classic yachts from Trosa, Sweden, to Helsinki, Finland. An environmental mission is part of the challenge. The yachts will take daily water samples. The first to take on the challenge is the Finnish hajboat (“shark-boat”) Myrskylintu (fulmar) and its crew Vesa Humalisto, Petri Wilska and Mika Talvitie from Espoo Sailing Club outside Helsinki . The picture was taken at the chilly launch of Myrskylintu, May 4.
Update: check-out  Carl Cramer`s comment on this in  Wooden Boat online.

SCYT challenges small yachts to a race from Trosa, Sweden, via Åland to Helsinki, Finland. The race is divided in six legs and the length is 300 nm. The first challenger has pre-registered and the news will be published shortly.  Tose who wants to particaipate can now find details in the Uffa Fox section of this site.

The 2011  yachting season is likely to be the the most promising step forward for classic yachting since plastic began to dominate the Baltic five decades ago. There will be eight regattas in the Baltic Classic Circuit, with different types of racing, sail parades and very enjoyable shore events. "The  Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Baltic Classic Master Cup party in Helsinki last summer defintely set a new standard for wooden boat events in the Nordic countries, " says Olle Appelberg, executive director of SCYT.

10mR yacht Itaka has become the first winner of the Baltic Classic Master Cup under very different racing conditions in the waters off Helsinki. The HSS regatta on Friday pitted her against the fast Aarworyn and Finnish Kitty in close match racing in choppy seas and strong winds. Aarworyn won the day with a fantastic show of tactics.

The Baltic Classic Circuit has become a great media success with news coverage in print media, internet, social media, radio and television. Finnish yacht photograper Jorma Rautapää (see his gallery) covered three events, Japanese photographer Yoichi Yabe spent the week i Trosa and the Royal Palace Regatta was also covered by German and Swedish photographers. Here is a picture from the Sail Parade at Tullgarn Royal Palace.

The Russian L6 offshore cruiser Nika was the best international yacht in the Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta total score. Swedish 95 sq m Kerma won and 55 sq m Rio came second. 

The Swedish 95 sq m Kerma with Claes Ahlin at the helm won the final race of the Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta on Saturday. 10mR Aaworyn finished second and Mälar (a Swedish one-design sq m) 25 Felicia third. The best performing international yacht was the Russian L6 Nika on 6th place. The Swiss A22 Solong helmed by Adrian Schmidlin finished 15th, the British SK22  Vigilant and A22 Patriot finished 27 and 36 and Finnish 10mR Kitty 38.  SATURDAY RES. reviderat.pdf

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended the final race of the Royal Palace Regatta on Saturday. The King, who was at the helm of his own motor yacht, takes a keen interest in classic boats, and is personally involved in the creation of a classic yacht center in Stockholm, Nya Djurgårdvarvet.

This morning, a red and white striped pennant (flag "AP", in Swedish popularly called "apan" ie "the monkey") could be seen over the Trosa guest harbor: The start signal was postponed about an hour with the hope of more wind. Once the races started, sailors reported a large audience. Go to the "Read more" to see the preliminary results of all races up to race No 6.

"It has worked out great today," says race manager Fredrik Hedlund. "Everyone did what they were supposed to do on time. We had no false starts. And, as far as I know, no men overboard," he smiles.

 At 2000 hours Thursday night, Vixen entered the Swedish archipelago and the channel towards Studsvik and Trosa. The weather was rainy and moderate winds were increasing, so only two boats were there to greet them - and,  also,  they were there three hours earlier than expected. Two and a half hours later Vixen docked in total darkness after some interesting passages between rocks and islands.

The Vixen crew was a bit tired but very happy arriving in Brunsbuttel Thursday night. They had a good run up the North Sea 120 hours door to door The low point was around Europort/Zeebrugge where in combination with the terrible pollution, they were stopped by the coastguard and forced to backtrack for six hours to go down the inshore shipping route.

Vixen arrived in Brunsbuettel at the entrance of the Kiel Canal at around 19.30 Thursday night, almost two days eariler tha expected. The little yacht has been moving at a tremendous speed and has logged an average of 6.7 knots since Cowes. They are taking a brief stop to charge up batteries and then are hoping to pick up a tow to assist the trip through the Canal today. Showers and beer were also on the agenda.  Pictures and more information will follow later today.

Vixen reported a very slow Monday. Tuesday morning they had reached Hoek van Holland and still very little wind, with only 50 miles logged in the past 24 hours. Sampling is going well taking observations and pictures. Luke says they are hoping for more breeze but catching mackerel at least.

Monday morning Vixen reported good speed in light increasing breeze near the Dutch port of Breskens after 200 miles and 40 hours at sea. Luke Yeats added that tanning conditions were good.
Vixen is travelling at a very impressive average speed of 6.2 knots. Follow her at marinetraffic.com.

Vixen reported execellent progress throught the first night at sea, 92 miles. They were at Dungeness by 08.00 Sunday July 18th and expected to cross the channel at Dover by lunchtime. The first measurements were taken Sunday morning.

The tiny 15 sq m skerry cruiser Vixen left Cowes for her 1000 mile journey to Trosa, Sweden, with the four o`clock tide on Saturday. Follow her online at marinetraffic.com. Vixen will be sailing all around the clock and her first planned stop will be in a week`s time at the Kiel Canal.

Three intrepid young British yachtsmen, Luke Yeates, Jack Gifford and Will Shepherd, have taken up the challenge by the Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust, SCYT, for British classic yacht owners to retrace Uffa Fox’s famous 1000 mile, 1930 voyage from Cowes to Stockholm. Sailing the Vixen, a 1937 classic yacht, the team hope to be in Trosa, Sweden, between 3rd and 6th August 2010 for the start of the Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta, part of a new classic series, the Baltic Classic Master Cup.

Nika, a Russian L6 off shore racer from St Petersburg has signed up for Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta in Sweden. Nika was built in 1975 and is part of an entire fleet of little known Russian off-shore racers. She is captained by V. Manuhin. The L6 ocean racer/cruiser was designed by A. Kiselev in 1958.

Yesterday afternoon in the glorious Stockholm sunshine, two magnificent beauties were spotted airing their sails in the inner city. Former Royal Swedish Yacht Club Commodor Calle Piehl, handled 150 sq m Beatrice Aurore with great skill and left R-10 Moana far behind. But - of course - no race had been declared. The gentlemen on the picture are members of Stockholm Yacht Klubb and seem well qualified to score some points at the Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Sail Parade.

One of Sweden`s largest classic yachts has pre-registered for the Royal Palace Regatta. Ballad measures more than LOA 60ft and has a displacement of almost 35 metric tons.

Helsinki is welcoming classic yachts to the spectacular Helsinki 2010 classic event with two consecutive regattas in the city area. Helsingsfors Segelsällskap Yacht Club with the largets classic fleet in Scandinavia starts a new classic regatta on Augúst 13 and the next day it is time for Viapori Cup, with 200 participating boats.

Alca will celebrate her 114th birthday showing off her beautiful slender lines at the Tullgarn Royal Palace. When she was launched in 1896 she stunned the Nordic yachting community. When the owner Martin Geber signed her up for the Tivoli cup, the Finns filed a protest. Alca was five inches too long and she was refused to enter the race.

Four 10mR yachts will be on the starting line at Trosa, Sweden. Kitty, the  Olympic Gold Medal winner in Stockholm 1912, has preregistered for the races. She was designed by Alfred Mylne and built in Turku, Finland, 1911 for a consortium led by Gustaf Estlander.

More than 80 yachts from seven nations have now pre-registered for the races at Trosa Tullgarn. They include about 30 one design 22, 25 and 30 sq m Mälar boats, 22 22 sq m skerry cruisers and 31 other yachts, mostly larger. The yachts participating in Swedish Championships are included in the Royal Palace Regatta at no extra fee.

The Swedish 10mR Itaka is the first yacht to enter the Baltic Classic Master Cup. "We will begin with the Classic Baltic Race out of Sandhamn in July. In August we plan to participate in the Royal Palace Regatta at Trosa and the Viapori Trophy in Helsinki,"  says Itaka`s captain Ingmar Bergman.

Mignon will be heading for the Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta flying the Swedish Norwegian Union flag. When Mignon was launched in the spring of 1905 Sweden and Norway was still united under the same king. The flag was nick-namned the herring salad, because of its mix of colors and shapes in the upper right hand corner (above). Mignon was the first large yacht designed and built by August Plym at Neglinge, Stockholm.

The Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust, SCYT, is launching a new classic regatta with a call to all British classic yacht owners to retrace Uffa Fox’s famous 1930s voyage from Cowes to Stockholm. “We are cordially inviting all classic yachtsmen to celebrate Uffa’s remarkable achievement by sailing up to the Stockholm archipelago to join us for the first Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta,” says Olle Appelberg, Executive Director of the SCYT.
Update: The departure date from Cowes will be changed, allowing 20 days for the journey!

The Grand Old Lady of square meter yachts, Beatrice Aurore, was the first to pre-register for the Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta. SK 150 S1 is the largest of our skerry cruiser measuring 22.2 x 3.5m with an impressive sail area of 150 sq m. On the picture above she is being chased by SK95 Irmelin and Britt-Marie, at the square meter class 100th anniversary race in 2008.

Two new regattas for classic yachts and a Baltic Classic Master Cup series will be launched this year in the northern Baltic and the Gulf of Finland. Races and sail parades will be held in Sandhamn and Trosa in Sweden, Hangö and Helsinki in Finland (above) and in St Petersburg, Russia.

In 2010 the Swedish town of Trosa celebrates its 400 anniversary, launching the first Trosa Tullgarn Royal Palace Regatta.

The festival (called Trosa Seglar Vackert, in Swedish) will start August 3rd with Swedish and international championships for 22 sq m skerry cruisers (A22) and four classes of mälarboats, the 15, 22, 25 and 30 sq m Swedish one-design yachts.

Russian and Swedish classic yachts had their first "official rendez-vous" ever when Sail Yacht Society of Sweden invited classic yachts of St Petersburg River Yacht Club for a summer meeting at Tullgarn Royal Palace, 50 miles south of Stockholm.