What a weekend behind for the Baltic Offshore Week 2023 sailors!

The weekend offered the fleet a mixture of no wind / light wind / heavy wind:-)

Especially the final day offered the fleet a fantastic weather in blasting downwind in over 20 knots of wind. Check out the extensive picture achive from both FB and IG

Top three boats in each class,
ORC A
1. Mercedes-Benz, FIN69996, GP42, Jani Lehti
2. Shadown, EST113, J-112E, Harles Liiv
3. Olympic, EST463, X-41 mod, Tiit Vihul

ORC B
1. Katariina II, EST646, Arcona 340, Alvar Tuulberg
2. Sugar, EST774, Italia9.98, Sandro Montefusco
3. Team Pro4u, SWE88, First 36.7 Mod, Patrik Forsgren

ORC C
1. Penelope, FIN10605, First 31.7, Perttu Rönkkö
2. Thetis, FIN10605, First 31.7. Perttu Monthan

Full official results are available online HERE

Racing continues tomorrow according to the SI with the windward / leeward races

Baltic Offshore Week 2023, day 2 is in full progress

The fleet of 28 boats have sailed 1 windward / leeward race + now the offshore race is ongoing outside Helsinki.

You can follow the fleet LIVE from HERE

The upcoming is just around the corner and heat is building up, both on the land and on waters 🙂

Competing boats – please read these 5 points before coming the harbour:

1.
On arrival please dock your boat according to the harbor plan as per Manage2Sail. Your designated place is the same the entire weekend

2.
Please note that the dock boxes shall NOT be straight on the main pontoon. They must be on the side pontoons

3.
You have to register the boat to the harbour masters office / cafeteria and after that you’ll get two(2) badges per boat to the gates and sauna

4.
Race office open for registration:
Thursday 15.5. from 5pm to 8pm
Friday 16.6. from 8am to 10am

Skippers meeting on 16.6. at 10am outside race office

5.
After the first day (=Friday 16th) of racing all boats SHALL bring their trackers for charging. Deadline is inside protest time.

And all boats shall come and get back the tracker on Saturday ( = 17th) morning

See you all at the harbour!

The 2023 edition of Baltic Offshore Week will be held in Finland. Base harbour will be MarinaBay Helsinki, see www.marinabay.fi
Each competing boat shall have their own designated place from Thursday to Sunday.

Preliminary program:
Thursday 15th June: Registration + after sail (updated 5th March)

Friday 16th June: Registration, racing + after sail

Saturday 17th June: Racing + after sail

Sunday 18th June: Racing + prize giving

The 2021 edition of Baltic Offshore Week is over. Time to think back. How did the organisers perform? Please help us to improve in the future. Take max 1 minute of your time to fill our survey.

Link to survey H E R E

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BALTIC OFFSHORE WEEK 2021 is a wrap!

ORC A/B
🥇 🇫🇮 Nicole4, Riku Nissilä & crew (10.60 pts)
🥈 🇫🇮 Zer°emission, Samuli Leisti & crew (19 pts)
🥉 🇫🇮 Mercedes-Benz Eq Power, Jani Lehti (21.60 pts)

ORC C
🥇 🇸🇪 Team Pro4u, Patrik Forsgren & crew (7.20 pts)
🥈 🇫🇮 Ramdata, Sakari Laulajainen & crew (16.40 pts)
🥉 🇫🇮 Xanadu, Juhani Lehtonen & crew (21 pts)

Full results click from menu “results & documents”

Congratulations to the top 3 teams and most of all a big thank you to all you competitors for this superb competition

In co-operation,
FREE / FAT LIZARD / VISIT KIMITOON /
SKIPPERI.FI / MAGIC MARINE / ABENA FINLAND

… to the race office TONIGHT before 9pm

And get it back tomorrow morning at the skippers meeting