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A wonderful action made today slovenian team -Tina Mrak - Veronica Macarol . They are leaders in the ranking leaving behind - COHEN / LASRY from Israel who leads few days before at women. Thus, on the fourth day of the European Sailing Championship in class 470 - Slovenia led with 2-2-1 places in the standings. (more…)

All competed in breeze conditions, with Mantis /Kagialis from GRE rising to the top after two races, followed by Pavel Sozykin / Denis Gribanov from Russia and DAHLBERG / BERGSTRÖM from SWE . Leading at the women remain Gil Cohen / Noa Lasry from ISR, followed by Elena Berta / Bianca Caruso - IT and European champions - Afrodite Zegers / Anneloes van Veen (NED). (more…)

A wonderful presentation of our Bulgarian sailors in sailing SetSail Black Sea Regatta, which ended yesterday in Mangalia. As we mentioned earlier, 3 yachts from Bulgaria took part in it. (more…)

After the unsuccessful first day of the 470 Class Open European Championship 2018 in Bourgas due to windlessness, weather conditions were more favorable to the participants - on Day 2 there were 3 races at a wind speed of 8-10 knots. In the race took part 44 male and 29 female crews from 24 countries from Europe, Asia and North America. At the end of the third race, the leaders who took the lead were clearly outlined: Gil Cohen / Noa Lasry (Israel), Silvia Mas / Patricia Cantero (Spain), Barbara Cornudella / Sara Lopez (Spain) in women and Hippolyte MACHETTI /Sidoines DANTES (France), Jordi XAMMAR/Nicolas RODRIGUEZ(Spain) in men. (more…)

Three Bulgarian crews started in the sailing SetSail Black Sea Regatta in Mangalia, Romania. After five races, leaders in their classes are Elina and Nimana in classes ORC 3 and ORC2. In class ORC1, the crew of LZ yachting 1991 is the fourth. In the first race for keel yachts for the season in Romania joined 25 crews. The season of the keel yacht race in Bulgaria will be open at the end of May with the fifth anniversary edition of the Varna Channel Cup 2018 Regatta (May 31 - June 3), organized by the Yacht Club Yachts and Varna Municipality. Interim ranking after the second race day:  http://www.fry.ro/images/files/2018%2006%20SetSail-BSIR%20Results%20Day%202.pdf (more…)

On the first day of the 470 Class Open European Championship- 44 male and 29 female crews failed to start due to insufficient conditions for racing despite the efforts made by everyone. Wind speed around 4 knots with variable western dirrection did not allow to start the championship. The expected sea breeze came at 1705.. h. At this time, the expectations are for starting procedure at 13:00. (more…)

Today is the final of the registrations and the measurement of the boats participating in the competition. In the late hours of the day a training race was held, involving the teams participating in the regatta. The race underwent a strong east breeze with avarage windspeed of 14 knots. There have to be several adjustments, but this is not unusual. Tomorrow - 19th, the qualifying series will start, which will continue until May 23 .... (more…)

Source - Setsail Regatta 2018                           

The Mayor of Bourgas - Dimitar Nikolov, attended the event itself. The event is organized by Yacht Club "Port Bourgas" with the support of Audi Bulgaria and Audi Burgas Westauto-M. Races start on Saturday and can be seen from the Bridge and the Sea Garden. (more…)

From 16th to 24th of May 2018 Yacht Club Port Bourgas will be hosting the 2018 470 Class Open European Championship. The event will be organized by Yacht Club Port Bourgas in conjunction with the Bulgarian 420 Class and 470 Class Association, the International 470 Class Association under the auspices of the Bulgarian Sailing Federation.  (more…)