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2010 North Sails Soling Ranking
Gyory Wossala and Karoly Vezer Win the 2008 Ranking
North Sails One Design to Sponsor the 2008 Soling Ranking
2006 Soling Worlds

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2008 Soling Ranking

Gyorgy Wossala & Karoly Vezer
share the 2008 North Sails Soling ranking victory.

Gyorgy and Karoly had a victory after sailing 6 ranked events during the year and few more not ranked. They had 4 firsts a second and a 4th in this impressive result. The immediate followers Team Marinepool with Koch, Koch and Bornemann: had two firsts, two seconds, one third and one 9th sailing almost same regattas, .
Tomas Maschkiwitz selected best the races were to race with better participation and was enough to beat an excellent record of the Argentine team with three seconds and one first in races less populated.
Norway with the complete team NOR 128 had their representative in the fight for the title. The best North American sailor was a CREW MEMBER with Gord Devries who traveled to the worlds to sail with a different helmsman.

"Congratulations to Gyory and Karoly for winning the 2008 Ranking. We are proud to have sponsored the ranking and look forward to a great sailing season in 2009"
-- Vince Brun, North Sails One Design.

Only the four best results are count to the ISA Ranking. *

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The winners from Hungary achieved a total of 162.9 points taking part in the following ISA ranked events:
World Championship - Sept 2008 - 4 - 37 - 2 - 74 *
Austrian Championship - August 2008 - 1 - 27- 1.2 - 32.4 *
European Championship - April 2008 - 1 - 19 - 1.5 - 28.5 *
Omega Cup - May 2008 - 2 - 28 - 1 - 28 *
Italian Championship - June 2008 - 1 - 9 - 1.2 - 10.8
Hungarian Open Championship - July 2008 - 1 8 - 1.2 - 9.6
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The team GER 300 with Koch, Koch and Bornemann followed the winners finishing with 149.2 points and the following record:
World Championship - Sept 2008- 9 - 32 - 2 - 64 *
Austrian Championship - August 2008 - 2 - 26 - 1.2 - 31.2*
Omega Cup - May 2008 - 3 - 27 - 1 - 27 *
European Championship - April 2008 - 2 - 18 - 1.5 - 27 *
German Champioship - June 2008 - 1 - 17 - 1.2 - 20.4
Vittorio Porta Trophy May 2008 - 1 - 13 - 1 - 13
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Tomas Maschkiwitz from Germany followed despite his crew changes along the year ending with 147.3 points and the following record:
World Championship - Sept 2008 - 5 - 36 - 2 - 72 *
Austrian Championship - August 2008 - 4 - 24 - 1.2 - 28.8 *
Omega Cup - May 2008 - 6 - 24 - 1 - 24 *
European Championship - April 2008 - 5 - 15 - 1.5 - 22.5 *
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Gustavo Warburg and Maximo Smith from Argentina follow with 133.2 points:
World Championship - Sept 2008 - 2 - 39 - 2 - 78 *
South American Champ - Dec 2008 - 2 - 16 - 1.5 - 24 *
Argentine Championship - Nov 2008 - 1 - 16 - 1.2 - 19.2 *
South Brazilian Champ - April 2008 - 2 - 12 - 1 - 12 *
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From Norway the team Wild Thing NOR 128 with Preben Asbjørnrød, Hans Husum and Richard Fikse ended with 125.6 points and the following record:
World Championship - Sept 2008 - 10 - 31 - 2 - 62 *
Norwegian Championship - August 2008 - 1 - 23 - 1.2 -27.6 *
European Championship - April 2008 - 4 - 16 - 1.5 - 24 *
Vittorio Porta Trophy - May 2008 - 2 - 12 - 1 - 12 *
Danish Championship - May 2008 - 1 - 7 - 1.2 - 8.4
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Best Noth American would be Gord Devries ending with 122.3 points and a record of:
World Championship - Sept 2008 - 7 - 34 - 2 - 68 *
North American Champ - June 2008 - 1 - 15 - 1.5 - 22.5*
Omega Cup - May 2008 - 9 - 21 - 1 - 21 *
Canadian Championship - August 2008 - 2 - 9 - 1.2 - 10.8 *

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2008 Soling Ranking

2008 North Sails Soling Ranking Announcement

After one more consecutive year of success for the Soling Class Ranking, we are glad to announce that North Sails One Design has signed up to be the main sponsor of the 2008 Ranking. Worldwide leader in the sailmaking industry and a strong supporter of the Soling Class, North Sails One Design is excited to sponsor the 2008 ranking. ”We are enthused to stimulate the competition between the great sailors that sail in the Soling Class.” said Soling World Champion and North Sails One Design President Vince Brun.

Here is how the Soling class ranking works: The sailors (crews and helmsman) are scored individually, and regatta points are directly affected by the number of competitors, creating a partnership between sailors and organizers to improve Soling Class events to attract more sailors and therefore bring more points to the game. The Soling Ranking is probably the only ranking that the crew can achieve more points than his usual helmsman. 390 sailors competed in 2007 and the winners were the Hungarian sailors George Wossala and his crew Peter Nemeth by only 0.2 points over the Argentine fellows.

Teams using North Sails achieved outstanding results in 2007 including the. World Championship at the end of the year. Brazilian team Vipal sailed by George Nehm, Marcos Ribeiro and Lucio Ribeiro used ES 12 mainsail, V1 and an A1 jibs in the difficult and choppy waves in Argentina.

As part of the sponsorship North Sails will provide a brand new Jib for the winner of the 2008 Ranking and sailing bags for the 2nd and 3rd places.

For more information on the North Sails Soling designs check their website at www.onedesign.com .

Be prepared for the upcoming Soling sailing season!! North Sails wishes all teams the best luck and great speed at the race course.

Current 2007 Ranking standings:
www.soling.com/indexmore.asp?Seccion=Events&Evento=Ranking

NOTE: First ranking release will be around February 26th .

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2006 Soling Worlds
Congratulations Hans Fogh, Gordon Devriers and Roger Cheer World Champions!

"Vince,

I enjoyed the winning and the sails worked out the way I hoped they would!

The V1+ is a great sail and we used it all the way up to 15-16 knots. Mainsail DC-1 have a good shape and with the full batten at the top and the soft cloth half way and all the way to the top. I would highly recommend that you make this mainsail standard, since it was definitely great “all around” . I used the full top batten in light and heavy air and it workout great. I also measured for the Worlds, an North A1 jib and a Monster spinnaker. In other words, I used a full North inventory, which gave me the edge necessary to win the Worlds.

I was very pleased with the speed and the sails we used and I recommend it to all your customers.

Once again thank you for your help.

Hans Fogh - 2006 World Champion

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