Category Archives: Sailing

Since the tour de France a la voile a lot of things happened and I think it’s time to update a bit. Why is the title about sandwich? Keep reading and you will see. Right after the tour having alomst every day baguette sandwiches I went to Marseille the beautiful harbor in south of France [...]

Photo © Juerg Kaufmann This weekend I hade the chance to sail the Bol d’or regatta on one of the extreme 40Catamaran and shooting some pictures. We left the harbor at 7.30 in the morning and by 20.00 we where back in the Club in Geneva. The speed of these boats is simply amazing, all [...]

Photo (c) Chris Cameron First 3 races of the LVC Final are over, Emirates Team New Zealand is leading 3:0 against Luna Rossa the Italian team. I the TV Studio from the Televisione Svizzera Italiana we are commenting every day this races, it a great pleasure to work with professionals like Giordano De Lucia journalist [...]

During the Lugano leg of the UBS Alinghi Swiss Tour 2007 I was asked to held a presentation about America’s Cup and matchrace at my home club the Circolo Velico lago di Lugano for UBS. Since years we are hearing the famous storys about the cup like “There is no second, Ma’am” etc. With this [...]

Almost 1000 sailors, distributed over classes like Star, Yngling, Tornado, Finn, RSX, Laser and 49er. During the first days I was out on the Star class course where Hamish Pepper and Robert Scheidt delivered great duels’. After one day on the Laser course and 1 day in the bed with a cold we got to the medal race day. [...]

Photo (c) Juerg Kaufmann The race is over we had again about 100 competitors distributed in the classes Standard, Radial and 4.7. The first time we could use our new clubhouse for a major event, it’s a much more clean and comfortable way of working without mentioning the new restaurant etc. But the new club [...]

Photo (c) Roberto Ghidoni Hi allFriday almost 10 pm and still sitting in the office and trying to get done as much as possible in my real job before flying to the next regatta. The last few weeks have been very intense even from a sailing point point of view but very beautiful. The big [...]

Now the 6th Ticino Saling Week Laser Europacup organized by the Circolo Velico lago di Lugano is over. We had 4 days with intensive racing with 90 boats in different conditions; 3 days racing in good thermic winds from south and 1 day have heavy sailing with the strong north wind blowing on average 20-25 [...]

Since 7 years now some sailors start the season by combining a day of ski together with a match race. It may sound a bit strange going up to Gstaad Yacht Club to sail a match race. Don’t worry it’s on of the finest sailing events I’m having the pleasure to be part every year. [...]