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Day two of the Tornado World Championships started with the same conditions as the day before, the race committee decided to postpone racing for one hour to let the wind settle and shift as predicted. Read More »

Day One of the 2013 Tornado World Championships in Ibiza was set to be a windy one. The practice races yesterday had already been blown out but the sailors were keen to get out into the turquoise seas to test their boats. Read More »

9 out of 9 for Piggott and Kay Read More »

It’s now just one month until the Tornado Class sailors will be hitting Ibiza for the annual Tornado Open and Mixed World Championships. The island is ready to greet the sailors and their families, there is going to be lots of action on the sailing side, but also loads to do for everyone, including a Ibicencan paella night, a barbecue ... Read More »

Pablo Soldano, the Multihull expert who runs the Ullman Sails Italy loft will be in Ibiza and available to help sailors from the 27th – 29th September. He will be able to help you with boat and sail setup along with on the water techniques to make you faster! Many sailors across the fleet have taken advantage of the Tornado ... Read More »

International Tornado Class Association Notice of AGM The Annual General Meeting of the International Tornado Class Association will be held on Monday the 30th September at 20.00CET in the Tornado Lounge, Ibiza. Agenda Apologies for absence Approval of the minutes of the last AGM Presidents Report Secretarys Report Treasurers Report One Design Sails Protest and Vote Class Rules Events and ... Read More »

The austrian nationals have been again a international top-event with a good response of 27  Tornado sailors from Austria,Germany, Czech Republic and Spain on the Tirol-mountain lake Achensee. 8 races were sailed in mostly light and shifty winds with hot temperatures up to 38 Celsius. The new Austrian Champions with only 12 points were the young team from Union Yacht Club Attersee, ... Read More »

The International Tornado Class (ITA) have arranged a great deal for members of the class where we can offer a large discount on the price of a new Carbon Mast from Marstrom. One mast including the VAT is usually 54826SEK which is about €6340. If we can get 10 mast or more in one order at the same time we can ... Read More »

Report from David Gunkel, ITA Treasurer. We have just finished the Travemuender Woche Tornado Regatta. What a great event. We started on Friday on the SAP media racecourse. We had 4 short races with light to medium wind conditions. Everybody was given GPS trackers onboard. A helicopter was doing the pictures from the air and also some cameras on boats ... Read More »

Bad luck for Roland and Nahid Gäbler – Lucky winners Veit Hemmeter and Nico Lutz The SCFF, Sailing Club Fuessen Forggensee was this years venue for the 2013 German Open & Mixed German Tornado Championship. It’s the 3rd time the Club has organised this event, the first time was in 1985, then 1993 and this last weekend. 32 Crews from ... Read More »