7th MidsummerSail: "Red" with new record: First in Töre: "The great thing is, you sail towards the light"

The still young Baltic Sea race MidsummerSail has a new record! At the seventh edition, skipper Mathias Müller from Blumecron, Felix Oehme and Wolf Scheder managed to sail 900 nautical miles from Wismar to Töre in Sweden. The increasingly popular summer regatta from the southernmost to the northernmost harbour of the Baltic Sea attracted 60 boats to the starting line this year. The crew on the fast Class 40 "Red" had their eye on the existing record from 2019 right from the start and now shaved almost a whole day off it. The "Red" team reached the small Swedish harbour of Töre after just 4 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 46 seconds. The trio managed a perfect run at high speed. They beat the three-year-old record of the "Pure" by 22 hours and 29 minutes.

Nevertheless, the experienced sailors still had time to enjoy the race. "It was wonderful with magical moments," said "Red" owner Mathias Müller von Blumencron. "The great thing is that you sail towards the light, and every 24 hours it gets so much brighter. The colours we had at the end were great. The sunsets and sunrises here last forever. It was a really great experience." However, the new record was not a matter of course, as the skipper says: "You never know how long such a northern Swedish calm can last, two hours or 24." In fact, the weather window was a green one overall for the "Red" team's record-breaking ambitions.

The following yachts also benefited and continue to benefit from the favourable conditions. By early Monday afternoon, the first six boats had reached the finish line, including some fast multihulls. After "Red", the 27-foot Farrier F82R "Flaneur" crossed the line in second place with a new multihull record after 5 days, 38 minutes and 16 seconds. This not only earned skipper André Bätz the "Multihull" line honours, but also the prize for the best result for the smallest crew, as Bätz completed the long distance solo. The Dragonfly 35 "Firlefanz" was the third boat to reach the finish line around seven hours later. It was followed by the Dragonfly 40 "Rastaban", the Arcona 400 "Anne Bonny" and the Baltic 52 "Zukunft IV" from the Kieler Yacht-Club. The "Zukunft IV" crew led by skipper Jan Oswald was the sixth boat to cross the finish line, completing the 900-nautical-mile course in 5 days, 19 hours, 41 minutes and 8 seconds. "The atmosphere in the finishing harbour is great and the wind is back," said organiser Robert Nowatzki happily, while the majority of the fleet is still heading for the small Swedish harbour. Click here for the GPS tracking of the MidsummerSail (please click!).