EUROSAF First 27 SE European Single-handed Championship 22

134 miles around the island of Fyn, organized in a way normally reserved for sailing festivals like Barcolana or Round the Island.
The race itself is pretty straightforward as far as navigation goes – keep the Fyn to the left or to the right depending on the actual race instructions. The main nuisance is the current that is quite significant in all the channels so you hope to have some fair breeze when you find yourself there. Most of the course is protected from the waves but the north part of the island is quite exposed.

Race format obviously hit a sweet spot between being hard enough to make it interesting and being doable enough to try and giving it a go. The number of boats on the starting line increased by 100 each year ending up on a staggering 450 in the 2017 edition making it by far the largest singlehanded race in the world. The trend didn’t change much and this year more than 400 boats are expected to arrive in Svendborg.