.....before I take a break in the Spanish mountains :-)

Super Sailing in Santander – ISAF Multihull Evaluation in northern Spain was a fantastic event.

The Good and Bad moments of the Trials. A report from Roland Gaebler.

What a great place to sail! Inshore with flat water and tactical challenges. Offshore with real waves and nice surf. The Club made an amazing job. Its one of the best places for sailing we ever saw. Nice facilities, brilliant beaches and snow on the mountains. Purely one of the nicest sailing scenery. Fantastico!

We missed a bit the strong winds and the big waves to test the material at the limit. But it was good to have all the sailors their feedback about the Tornado. They gave us nice comments what they like or not.

The 2012 WA Tornado State Titles was held at Jervoise Bay Sailing Club over the March long weekend. It's been a quite a few years since Tornadoes sailed at Jervoise Bay and all agreed it was a great venue and the members of JBSC were fantastic including the event in their long weekend regatta at late notice.

For once I had the pleasure of watching instead of participating as I managed to destroy my hamstring in a nose diving accident (on a Tornado of course) three weeks beforehand putting me on the sideline. Another stalwart Gwyn Cracknell also had to watch after recovering from a shoulder reconstruction.

Tornado Sports Line Lengths

The following information has been provided by Brett Burvill from Windrush Yachts. Please note that these line lengths are sugestions only and are those used by Brett, so before you make your own using these measurements double check your own boats configuration as these dimensions may not suit your boat. If you have your own measurements that are not listed here please submit to webmaster and I will be happy to add them to this tuning guide.

On the final day Lake Biel offered some tough sailing conditions for the competitors of the Tornado World Championship 2011 with strong winds close to the upper wind limit of 25 knots. It was possible to complete four races in these demanding conditions. After three races the race committee decided to return to shore for a break, which allowed many teams to repair the damages.

Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis from Greece took the Open World title while Roland Gäbler and Nahid Gäbler won the Mixed World title.

Gwyn Cracknell (foundly known as Crackles) is in the process of writing some articles and collecting information about the histrory of the Tornado in Australia.  He has started by putting together the list of Australian and WA state Champions. You can view this info here. if you have any additional information you can provide please send it to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I will get Crackles to update it.

He is also compiling some interesting info about the people who sail Tornadoes (both past and present) and a little bit about each one of them.  Check back here to see what Crackles can come up with.

Regards
Paul Raymond
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