44Cup Cascais, 11 – 15 May 2022, Cascais, Portugal | On 12 May, a Swiss team competed in an RC44 Cup for the first time. Black Star Sailing set a historic mark by crossing the starting line: never before has a Swiss team competed in this boat class.
However, it was also shown to us straight away that even in this boat class the rewards are high and that we cannot simply sail along at the front.
29 June – 3 July 2022: With the 44Cup Marstrand we are heading for our second regatta in the RC44 boat class. After our baptism of fire at the 44Cup Cascais, we have examined our performance and are now trying to improve our procedures and technique.
44Cup Marstrand, June 29 – July 3, 2022, Marstrand, Sweden | The Marstrand event meant some hectic and strenuous times for the sailing crew and shore team. Sweden welcomed us with pleasantly cool temperatures, but with somewhat rougher conditions on the water. Despite the eighth final place, the Black Star Sailing Team made a step forward on the RC44 yacht.
At the beginning of September, the time had finally come: fresh from a dock in England, we were able to sail our own RC44 Black Star for the first time in the Solent, a strait not far from the English Channel. What a feeling, what a joy!
44Cup World Championship Portorož, 12 – 16 October 2022, Slovenia | Full of excitement and energy, we travelled to Portorož at the beginning of October, finally able to compete in this world championship with our own RC44 yacht. With the last place, we could not convert our ambitions into tangible results so far. Nevertheless, we are satisfied with our performance.
7 – 11 December 2022: As the final event of the 44Cup 2022 and the last regatta in the Black Star Sailing calendar, we are expected in Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. While the football world looks to Qatar, the season finale of the RC44 boat class will take place not far away, […]
44Cup Oman December 7 – 11, 2022, Muscat, Oman | After more than two years the way led for the Black Star Sailing Team again to Oman – more precisely to the Al Muji Marina in Muscat. After sailing the final event of 2019 in Muscat as part of the GC32 Racing Tour, skipper Christian […]
44Cup Oman 2023, 1 – 5 March, Muscat, Oman | The first months of the new year went by with a lot of momentum. As the 44Cup Oman 2023 was the first event on our calendar, we got to work on the RC44 boat class, which is still new to us. There were still some crew issues to sort out on board and to get even better as a team. Positive experiences from our GC32 team event at the beginning of 2020 moved us to approach the 2023 season with an RC44 “get-together”. That our return to Muscat and the 44Cup Oman 2023 didn’t turn out as expected due to the Swiss ambassador and an unexpected weather change, you can find out here in our RC44 quarterly report.
44Cup Marstrand, 28 June – 2 July 2023, Marstrand, Sweden | After the result in Oman, we wanted to finally achieve that, if possible, we would no longer “sail behind”, but would finally actively compete in the field. With the 6th place at the 44Cup Marstrand, we say goodbye to the last place in the annual ranking for the moment. But the most important thing for us is that we managed to move forward again and that we are obviously optimising and improving in the right places.
RC44 World Championship Cowes 9 – 13 August 2023 | The Black Star Sailing Team started with the declared aim of sailing as consistently as possible. We wanted to avoid the up-and-down of past regattas as much as possible.
In the first two days we were able to implement our goals well. With quite constant results in the midfield, we were able to improve visibly compared to the last event and rank ourselves in the middle.