Racing season is over - crusing next

We only do 3 races pr. year and now the boat will be set in to cruising mode. All the familiy gear and stuff will make the boat our home for some week.
Racing with piXeline has been great. Below our track-record:

7 wins in 11 races ! NOT BAD

Hovdan Skagen Race 2005 - 2nd in class
Færder race 2005 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2005 - 1st in class
Hovdan Skagen Race 2006 - 1st in class and overall
Færder race 2006 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2006 - 5th in class
Færder race 2007 - DNF -:(
Watski Two Star 2007 - 1st in class and overall
Helly Hansen Skagen Race 2008 - 1st in class
Færder race 2008 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2008 - 3rd in class and 15th overall

Watski Skagerrak Two Star 2008 - HEAVY

Puuhhh... a heavy race, with heavy wind and heavy rain. Ending up being #3 in class and 15 overall. A lof of damage on sails. Some new records, max speed 18,8 knot, max windspeed with spinnaker 17 m/s !

Interview with us before the start: http://www.seilmagasinet.no/id/24524?showfilm=564

All results can be found on : http://www.seilmagasinet.no/















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The Ferder Race 2008

YES. Wind and we won our class. The crew were Stine Marie, Kristin (new), Caroline, Morten C, Morten H, Gjermund, Arve, Martin Moe(new) and Henning.

Any cruiser/racer with better performance !

We are very proud with our performance in the few races we have done. Maybe its good for us that we don't do more races as our win rate would have gone done -:) .We had a very though time ahead of the last race as we found that the rig was about to come down. Massive work performed by our friends at Elvstrom Norway (www.elvstrom-sobstad.no) and some help from X-Yachts and Arve Roaas enabled us to start the race. A little bit of stress as the boat was ashore 4 ahead of the start. The great crew in HH Skagen Race were: Gjermund Lover, Morten Hansen, Kjetil Stubberud, Morten Christensen, Mads Christensen, Ole Petter Christensen, Frederik Fogstad, Asbjorn Thorup, Arve Roaas and Henning Hansen. A quite fast race with perfect conditions for piXeline.
We do look forward to the Ferder Race and to the Watski Two Star race. The boat and all equipment are in perfect shape and should be very competitive.
9 entries and 6 wins !

Our results have been:
Hovdan Skagen Race 2005 - 2nd in class
Færder race 2005 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2005 - 1st in class
Hovdan Skagen Race 2006 - 1st in class and overall
Færder race 2006 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2006 - 5th in class
Færder race 2007 - DNF -:(
Watski Two Star 2007 - 1st in class and overall
Helly Hansen Skagen Race - 1st in class

Helly Hansen Skagen Race

Great sailing conditions for piXeline. No major hickups, perfect wheather routing performed by Mads Christensen (www.frivind.no)and as always great contribution by our sailing master, Arve Roaas. Competed with a Baltic 52 which also was our closest competitor in last year Watski Two Star.

Winter has passed away. 24 days to racing again !

The winter is long and it's difficult to get awards and attention from media and press. During winter we have thought got some. A long interview with our sailing master in Seilmagasinet (www.seilmagasinet). He talked about racing Volvo Ocean Race , Farr 40 racing and the years of sailing with the King of Norway on Fram. We were very happy to notice that he explicitly mentioned that racing with piXeline is great fun. Currently he is coaching the Norwgian olympic star sailors in Miami. We also won the winter picture competition in Seilas (www.seilas.no). The winner picture was taken when we sailed the boat from Gothenburg to Oslo in November a couple of years ago. It's only 24 days til the start of Helly Hansen Skagen Race and we are not yet ready for that. Several minor projects are under way and will be finished before start. Below some of the clippings from magazines.

more...

A lot of snow last weekend

4 months to go and we will be sailing again......

Peace of mind

Im in New York 6AM

Same procedure as last year

Boat out of water for a week in august. New antifouling, rubbing, polishing and waxing done. A lot of work but now the boat is in great conditions again.

Few races but good results

After buying the boat in November 2004 we have used the boat for crusing and racing purposes. We are doing only a few races a year and both the crew and the owners are very pleased with the results so far. Our results have been:
Hovdan Skagen Race 2005 - 2nd in class
Færder race 2005 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2005 - 1st in class
Hovdan Skagen Race 2006 - 1st in class and overall
Færder race 2006 - 1st in class
Watski Two Star 2006 - 5th in class
Færder race 2007 - DNF -:(
Watski Two Star 2007 - 1st in class and overall

8 races and 5 victories - Very Good. Thanks to crew and sailing master Arve Roaas

The boat is now heavy loaded with all crusing gear and ready for 3 weeks of crusing in Scandinavia.

More from Watski Two Star 2007

Interview on Seil TV after winning the Watski Two Star Race for the third time !

Watski Two Star 2007 - "Some luck, the rest coincidences" -:)-:)

As always a lot of preperation for both of us. Boat up to be cleand and one full day of fine-tuning before we took off to Hankø for the start at 11 PM. Started with a heavy #1 and full main. Took a reef later but had to change to #3. It went well but was an demaning operation because of heavy wind and heavy seas. The boat performed very well in these conditions (as always). Elapsed time to Arendal was 10 hours and 40 minutes, 1st in class and 3rd on this leg overall.

Next leg to Marstrand started in good gonditions. Wind from west, 8-14 m/s, gave us a long spinnaker reach. Broached just after hoisting the spinnaker but after that most things went very well. Gybing with only 4 hands available is challencing when in these conditions. Arrived in Marstrand at 1 AM after 12 hours and 29 minutes. 1st in class and 2nd overall after 2 legs. 4 minutes behind the leader overall, a Baltic 52.
Started together with this boat on the morning and had a dual strategy. Keep the clear lead in the class and catch up with the overall leader. We succeeded with both but it became more exiting than we wanted when we had a bad course after the island of Koster. Became number 4 in class on this leg and 19th overall. We sailed in 14 hours and 55 minutes on this leg which gave us a class and overall victory. As always fun but demanding.


"TwoStar-kongene fra Drammen vant over all"

http://www.seilmagasinet.no/id/26905

Færder seilasen 2007

Nightmare #1. After 12 hours of sailing we approached Nærsnes and the captain took the brutal decision to retire from the race and rather go for some beers in Drøbak. All available weather forecasts predicted no wind the day after. One boat in class managed to complete the race (Mumm 36). CONGRATULATIONS

Pictures taken by Nokia PT-6 mounted behinde the boat. "Nokia connecting boats"

Brygge bilder

Hovdan Skagen 2006

Færder 2006

Time for cleaning and antifouling

August work !

Watski Two Star 2006

Great sailing conditions. #5 in class and #10 overall.
Enjoyed spinnaker sailing in sunny conditions.

Færder race 2006 - another victory

Won with 45 minutes on corrected time, despite our new high rating. Very well sailed and tactics and strategy was great.
Crew were: Arve, Stine Marie, Hanne, Karoline, Karl Otto, Frederik, Morten, Henning

Andrew gets a well deserved price - travelled from China

Celebrating at the Koster in Sweden

Hovdan Skagen Race - a great victory

1st in class and 1st overall.

Great crew were: Morten C, Morten H, Arve, Hanne B, Trond, Andrew (from China), Frederik, Kjetil, Gjermund and Henning

Analysis performed by a competitor (in Norwegian):
http://www.seilmagasinet.no/?tips=e41bf50fdfee5acede8429e5ec874196










Stuff from Seilas:
http://www.seilas.no/wip4/search/detail.epl?id=92308&c=4915

http://www.seilas.no/wip4/search/detail.epl?id=92351&c=4915

http://www.dsf.no/Main.aspx?content=article&id=126§ionId=1&categoryId=8

More Racing - Hovdan Skagen race 1st overall

Fun and demanding. 1st in class and 1st overall.
http://www.sandaker.no/resultatliste.asp?seilasid=68

Racing Breiangen rundt - 2nd in the race