2011 Oravi, Fi

the sun shines over winter windsurfing at WISSA 2011- Oravi, Finland

"Formula" sled

Feodor Gurvits sailing his amazing hand made "Formula" sled on LAND!

Feodor is a very active snow, and ice sailor, and the organizer of WISSA 2011 in Oravi, Finland. Wife Anna is also an accomplished making the Gurvits family a true winter sailing family.
 Here's hoping to see all of them in Fond du Lac!

 http://www.wissa2015.com/


or for Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WorldIceandSnowSailingChampionship2015


 See you on the ice!
 Will

Wing Sailor Annie Tuthill looking "fly" in her new Smith Optics goggles /helmet combo in Kalajoki, Finland

Just a photo

Patrick Blom lays a nice turn in March ice in Helsinki after WISSA 2013 in Kalajoki.

Anton Cherkashin at Wissa 2013

Wissa 2013 (Finland). Anton Cherkashin from Svetlana Romantsova on Vimeo.

Inspiration Series - 2

Jarno Rautio - the lead organizer of WISSA 2013 meets us at the train station in Ylevieska. Nice to see after countless hours of travel.

2.3-10.3.2013 KALAJOKI – FINLAND

We have the dates, we have the site!

Please check out on wissa2013.fi on further details.

The Facebook group for the Championship is here: Wissa2013

Sihteeri/ PWR

Dear all,

I hope you all have enjoyed a great surfing summer!

The summer season is almost over here in Finland and we're heading our minds towards the coming winter season and WISSA 2013 in Kalajoki.

The arrangements have begun and we're in schedule. 

The official web pages, www.wissa2013.fi will be published in the end of September.

The schedule:

Saturday 2.3. - Sunday 3.3. Winter Windsurfing European Cup, Kalajoki

Monday 4.3. Registration for WISSA 2013, practising

Tuesday 5.3. - Saturday 9.3. WISSA racing

Saturday 9.3. Prize giving ceremony (evening)

Sunday 10.3. Departure

All information regarding travelling, accommodation, racing, registration fees, rental equipment etc. will be available on our web sites from late September onwards.

We are very pleased to have the honour of organizing the next Winter Worlds and wish you all warmly welcome to Kalajoki!

With best regards,

Sanna Päivärinta
Secretary, Perämeri WindRiders ryMobile +358 (0)40 150 6464

Best race o the year!

Amazing video, amazing conditions, great fun!

Feodor Gurvits

Update:


Raimo won in kite races and also won the speed run with 74,2km/h average .

There are great facilities there in Kalajoki, really great ones! And the free spa every day was appreciated after the gusty winds....
But check the video of races...

Christelle

WISSA 2011 - Random Photos

courtesy of William Tuthill

• Snow start for the wings

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• Pierre-Alain [Switzerland] et Christelle [Finland]

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• Simon Gill [Montreal]

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• Team Quebecois 2011

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• Side trip to the amazing Savonlinna Castle

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• Finnish trains are excellent!

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• Dr. Tiuja Salo [Finland] repairs the chin of Annie Tuthill [USA]

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• Ouch!

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• Short Track Slalom [STS]

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• Rainer Salo [Finland]

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• Juha Mannermaa [Finland]

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• Riçards Leipens [Latvia] Expert STS director

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• The new school "formula style" snow sailing sled. Vadim Volotskoi of Archangelsk, Russia , won best design in 2011 for this line of excellent thinking. Why didn't we think of this sooner?

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• At the hotel after racing. Can you say party?

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• STS / wings

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• Eric Udstrom [Finland]

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• 7 years old

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• Eesti rocks!

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• Nea Sellen

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• Lithuania

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• François Cuizinaud [France]

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• Team Sverige! So great.

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• Lars [Sweden]

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• Alex [Sweden]

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• Jibe

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• Draksegel

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• Ossi [Finland]

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• Tha-crew

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• Endless Jibes

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• Best Friend

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• Kalev / Moomi

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• Roger [Holland]

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• Klaus [Canada]

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• Fast snow sailing sleds

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• Renaud [Quebec]

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• Denis and Oksana [Russia]

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• These guys are the BEST!

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WISSA 2011 Notice of Race - Final

Hello!

Here's the Notice of the Race for WISSA event. Please have it published with highest possible visibility and forwarded to necessary parties not in my list.

Racing Rules are published on WinterWindsurf.com, but we are still in process of finalizing Wing and Kite versions.

Best regards!

Feodor Gurvits

WISSA 2011 Preliminary Notice of Race

Here is the WISSA 2011 Preliminary Notice of Race. It may change at any time before it becomes final. Use it for evaluation only.

Via: William Tuthill and wissa2011.org

WISSA 2011 Web Site is Up!

Just got this link in the Google news feed.

Slava Maltsev (Murmansk, Russia) looks terrific on the title page!

The site is still mostly empty so check it out again soon. The Finnish part of it has some info, you may try automated translation tools...

I like the logo of the event: Finns managed to harness all Finland as a sail :-) Good work!

2010: Conditions in Finland

Hi dudes.
This is something new from this season. Sorry its rather big, but smaller resolutions would have been bad.


Julli the icesurfer

Finland 2005 Memorabilia

by Alex Nozdrin



More images under the cut.