Svenja Weger (GER - Laser Radial girls) and Mitchell Kennedy (AUS - Laser Standard boys) are the U21 World Champions. There was only one Final race sailed in a very light east-southeast wind on tha last day of the Groupama-OTP Balaton Laser Worlds. The wind strength was very close to the lower acca…

Most of the time today the wind was light or moderate but finally enough for racing. Sometimes it was close to the 5 knots minimum limit sometimes blowing over ten. The Race Committee led by Miklós Rauschenberger made a great job on making the start procedures fluently. The N-NE wind was shifty and …

A nice N-NE breeze 8-10 knots is blowing as it was predicted. Boats are already on the course! Good hope in three races!

  Nothing again but look at the hopes for tomorrow! If yesterday the wind situation was hopless today became even more deplorable. A stationary high pressure system is sprawling all over Europe with a 1031 mB centre at England without any sign of movement causing hot air with high humidity at the …

It was a dead calm hot sunny day at the Lake Balaton without a slim chance of any kind of wind. A day to make us understand the real meaning and the phisical necessity of having some "siesta" in the early afternoon. The lake looked like a giant aquamarine mirror all day long so everybody stayed on s…

Today there were not enough wind on the Lake Balaton for racing on the Groupama-OTP Balaton Laser Worlds. The second day of the U21 Championships has started with a postponement on shore. It was extended to 14.00. As a quite steady 7-8 knots south wind was settled the competitors were called to the…

Today it was a successful beginning of the U21 Laser Radial Woman and Laser Standard Championships the second week’s events of the Groupama-OTP Balaton Laser Worlds. 91 girls from 31 countries and 138 boys representing 35 nations took part on the races divided into four (2 girls, 2 boys) groups for …

On the second week of the Laser Worlds the U21 fleets will compete in the olympic Laser classes. 91 sailors from 31 countries in the U21 Laser Radial Woman and 138 boys from 35 countries in the Laser Standard. Today the program was the registration and measurement, the first meeting for the coaches…

Folks! The Opening Ceremony will take place today, July 15 at 7.30 pm on Vitorlas square, about 300m from the event site, on the open air podium. See all of you there!

Silvia Morales Gonzalez (ESP) and Anil Cetin (TUR) are crowned as U18 Laser 4.7 World Champions on the final day of the Laser 4.7 Youth Championships. Two more races of the Final series  were sailed on the Groupama-OTP Balaton Laser 2013 Worlds first event the Laser 4.7 Youth Championships. This wa…

On the penultimate day of the Laser 4.7 Youth Championships the wind of the Lake Balaton was just semi friendly to the competitors. A north-northwestern was blowing again changing it’s direction and strength often in a  wide range. That make the task of the Race Committees very tough again. Finally …

Hopefully the wind showed all and already out of the dirty tricks. Today in the morning the Race Committe tried to start races but all theirs attempt failed as the wind became too light or shifted too much. Luckily in the afternoon the north-northwestern became steady enough and fresh. After three …

It was another difficult day for the competitors and the Race Committees on the Lake Balaton. Because of the light wind and the promises of the weather forcasts the fleets remained in the marinas until the early afternoon. At 2 o’clock a light southwestern gave an opportunity to start a race on Cour…

Notice  No. 2.  On Wednesday, 10th of July, 2013, time of the warning signal of the 1st Race is 9:00 a.m. and 3 Races can be run. Coach meeting is at 7:30 a.m.  

This is the second day of the Groupama-OTP Balaton Laser Worlds without any result. In the morning a northeastern was blowing but quite light. The domestic sailors know it means just a very slim chance for racing. They were right again. Anyhow the Race Committee decided to go. After a short postponm…