As an armchair sailor you may dream of ripping up 100 dollar notes as fast as you can, under a cold shower, deprived from sleep, doing an ice-bucket challenge every 5 minutes. For the real life thing, please sign up with folks like Bekking, Cauldrier, Boris Herman or Rosalin Kuiper
The Europe Race in the sailsimulator Sailaway
For the next best thing we offer you to participate in this years edition of The Europe Race series, in the sailing simulator SailAway. Racing a sailyacht in some 40 – 800 NM oceangoing races. During the season there will be some 90+ races all around Europe. Particpate in a minimum of 7 races to qualify
We invite sailors to join us in places like Odessa (UKR), or in Klaipeda (LIT) for a series of races going from European Seaport to European Seaport.
Off Line Racing
Be carefull when and how you race. Offline the boats will sail as fast as you on average are when sailing online. Being fast online while collecting speed data at the right moments means being fast off-line.
Time Correction
Be carefull about what boat you race. Race results are determined by applying a Time Correction Factor based on the known performance of all boats of a particular design. Boats may favor different weather conditions. Choose wisely.
The Races
See Notice of Race appendix A for planned races
- By organizing many races from 20 NM – 600 NM, there are enough races that can fit every e-sailor’s schedule.
- By utilizing a rating weighed for experience ( time spend on the water) and reliability ( repetitive results) skill of individual e-sailors can be compared without ever sailing against eachother
Rating and Ranking
In the end a rating of ot the e-sailing skill of you, the team or club your represent is determined. Your rating does not depend on the time you spent on the water, except for a minimum nr of 7 races.
Weather you sail manualy or with automatic trim is up to you. DNF, DNS etc are scored with a finish time proportional longer than the finish time of the last boat finishing.
The Europe Race is won by the skipper that has the highest ranking after the last race.
Schedule
Regular races will be scheduled from Sept 1st 2024 til March. 31sth 2025
Regular races are scheduled to start on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
See Notice of Race appendix A for planned races
Fridays race will start 17:10 UTC
Saturdays race will start 13:10 UTC
Sundays race will start 14:10 UTC
Documents
See menu for Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions
Notice of Race