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Jonny Seekamp achieved 8th place – a fantastic result! Henry-Alexander Hübener finished 25th. A great success!
Jonny often played with TacticalSailing and learned important tactical tips. Also competing on the GER team were Niklas Pape (96th), Quirin Waizenhöfer (118th), and Lasse Kliewe (130th). Coach Sven Stadel and team leader Alexa Hausotter were also present.
Nikolaos Pappas (GRE) is the 2025 Optimist World Champion. Mihael Zobec (SLO) finished second overall and took the title of Vice World Champion, while Carl Wincent Birgersson (DEN) won bronze.
See more reports by Birgitt Müller-Genrich on: Opti Class Association. Photos: Aleš Fevžer, Alexa Hausotter.
An interactive regatta simulation for playing and learning. Strategy, tactics and simulation! Fun for everyone who wants more than just sailing! Tactical Tips offer a broad selection of very valuable tips – including basic rules for the right of way.
With the toolbox, you receive prepared scenarios "ready to run", which you can use to practice as a beginner or expand your sailing capabilities at any time. With Coach's Toolbox you'll learn the tactics of sailing, in pairs against friends or Team Race with the family for four. Train the tactical subtleties with up to 10 boats at the start, the buoys and the finish line.
Order Tactical Sailing in Online shops. Payments can be made by credit card, PayPal, bank transfer, etc. at the market places listed. Tactical Sailing Software runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Tactical tips are also available on iOS and andoid.
A "Game Against the Wind" and "Boat Against Boat".
Sailing for beginner and advanced racers! Beginners can take their first steps in sailing, as we show how a boat can sail against the wind. Tactical Sailing developed a "Wind Simulator", which offers to practice your skills. Is this your first time steering a boat? Tactical Sailing shows how you can "tack" against the wind to move your boat as fast as possible upwind. You´ll have twice the fun with Tactical Sailing.
Tips: The standard program offers Tactical Tips, a broad selection of very valuable tips – including basic rules for the right of way as defined by „World Sailing (ISAF)“. The program includes a learning module with more than 40 tips to sail "Against the Wind" or "Boat Against Boat".
NEW! Exercises for "beginners, juniors, regatta sailors and experts". All exercises are now in one place - making them easier to find and operate. With 1-click operation, the most important tactical tips - from start to finish line - are summarized in a new category 'Tips-Tactics'.
Coach's Toolbox (Stand alone or All in One) is an important extension within the overall program of "Tactical Sailing - Games&Tips". Naturally, all other sailors wanting to perfect their knowledge in strategy and tactics in order to be optimally prepared for the coming regattas, can use it as well.
The Tactical Sailing program runs on PCs with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X 10 Catalina, but not macOS X 11 Big Sur or higher, or apple M1/2/3/4 chip. But you can use “Parallels” with Windows for Tactical Sailing on all Macs! See notes on Mac M1/2/3/4 chip, also for Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia and Parallels here. Check your Mac: Click "apple logo - About This Mac".
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