D-One Association

2022 Gold Cup - Gravedona, Lago di Como, ITA

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The D-One has always specialised in great championships in beautiful European locations, so, after two years of very little international sailing, D-One sailors from all over Europe are delighted to have finished a fantastic Gold Cup on Lake Como, hosted by Centro Vela Alto Lario at Gravedona.

A warm-up event was held with the Yacht Club Dervio, on the opposite side of the lake, the weekend before, and showed the 15 boats attending that this was going to be a cracker. The baking sunshine brought 15-18 knots of thermal southerly, with a continuous range of shifts and gusts meaning that no particular route was a certain winner either upwind or down.

Alessandro Novi (ITA) showed tremendous pace to win the event. Marek Bachtik (CZE), Patrick Rufenacht (SUI) and Nick Crickmore (GBR) also found a way to the top of a fairly high-scoring event, but all had some erratic results when caught out by the shifts, or just an out-of-practice capsize. These top four awaited the arrival of the rest of the Gold Cup fleet with more or less confidence in their mastery of the lake conditions.

2022 GBR and European Circuit

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There is a great year ahead for the UK D-One Class!

2022 is shaping up as a strong one for the UK D-One fleet with an open event calendar comprising an exciting mix of inland, sea and foreign venues.

The UK circuit kicks off in early April at Oxford Sailing Club before moving on to Burghfield Sailing Club in late April. The National Championship will return to the heart of UK D-One sailing at Lymington Town Sailing Club in July. For the Inland Championship, the Class heads north to Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club in September. The ever popular, Warsash Sailing Club will again bookend the season in October.

A UK circuit travellers series will include the Nationals, Inlands plus one other open event.

For those wishing to travel further afield, the European circuit includes the Gold Cup at Gravedona, Lake Como, Italy in May with the European Championship at Lake Balaton Hungary in September.

More details of the events can be found on our website www.d-oneassociation.org Other events may be added as they are confirmed. If anyone would like to add an event, please let us know.

There is plenty to prepare for as we look forward to welcoming the back the travelling fleet for some great competition at fantastic venues.

2021 Lipno and Wolfgangsee

Despite all the difficulties of the year the Czech and Austrian D-One Associations hosted well-attended events on consecutive weekends at the Bohemian beauty of Lake Lipno and then 3 hours away at the crystal lake of Wolfgangsee, near Salzburg.

We enjoyed some proper lake sailing especially at Lipno where rain/storm clouds were frequently passing over the lake during the weekend. It was also pretty cold, around 12 degrees and i think only survivor staying in tent was Nick Crickmore, also the only successful traveller from the UK.

We did 5 very shifty races and i think that was the maximum Martin Sousek could pull out as the weather was very unstable. Local club offered us nice hospitality with soups, dinner, beer and Kofola.

On monday/tuesday we moved to Wolfgangsee. From wednesday it got sunny and Wolfgangsee offered us really paradise conditions. No wind in the morning and then thermal breeze coming in the afternoon.