Greeks shine, Argentina moves to the top
Day 1 of the Nacra 17 competition was all about keeping your wits about you as the wind blew from the south, then the west, then somewhere in between. Thursday’s conditions were much more straightforward, at least in the sense that it was a very one-sided track. What is much less straightforward is how to […]
6am at the police station
Lack of wind on Lake Attersee meant no racing for day two of the Forward WIP nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra 17 European Championships in Austria. Olympic sailors, in fact sailors of any breed, know that waiting for the wind comes with the territory. At least this time it offers an opportunity for this global family […]
Young Swedes show Top Guns the way around Attersee
Emil Järudd and Cecilia Jonsson (SWE) showed the world-class Nacra 17 fleet the way round a very tricky Lake Attersee race course on day one of the 2020 Forward WIP European Championship in Austria. The young Swedes have made the most of their training period during the Coronavirus summer to look like serious threats to the […]
The Last Big Hurrah of 2020
Some of the world’s best high-performance sailors are ready and raring to go for day one of the Forward WIP nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra 17 European Championships at Lake Attersee, Austria. With the first qualifying races due to take place on Tuesday 29 September, the Union Yacht Club Attersee is hosting 30 Nacra 17 catamarans, […]
Thrilling medal races produce world champions
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke from New Zealand dazzled to win another nacra17 world championship, the sixth for the magic combo, which is easily a class record. In thrilling medal race the Spanish nacra17FX team of Tamara Echegoyen and Paula Barcelo and the British Nacra 17 team of John Gimson and Anna Burnet owned those […]
Plan for the final day of World Championship racing
With no racing on Friday February 14 due to summer storms that wreaked havoc with the breeze, Saturday’s final day of the nacra17, nacra17 and Nacra 17 World Championship looks like this: Schedule: Two gold fleet races for all three fleets commencing from 0955hrs Two silver and bronze fleet races immediately following Three medal races […]
“Game on” for national selection
Australians siblings Nathan and Haylee Outteridge continue to show their mettle, moving into the top spot in the Nacra 17. Their national teammates, Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (AUS), are also vying for a country spot for Tokyo 2020 and closing in at this world championship, now third overall. Sandwiched between the two country contenders […]
GBR’s Nacra know-how
John Gimson and Anna Burnet (GBR) are stringing together a set of scores that must be troubling the hot Nacra 17 competition, but they demonstrated they aren’t bullet-proof in the third race on day three of the World Championship, the half-way point of the series. “Two wins; chuffed with that but then in last race […]
2020 World Championship day 1 – no racing
A day of waiting disappointingly ended without any racing at the 2020 world title for the nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra 17 classes in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The Race Committee monitored conditions on Corio Bay from well before the morning session to late afternoon, 25-30 knots out of the east keeping nacra17 crews ashore all day […]
Long way to the top at Geelong nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra 17 World Championship
Half the contenders vying for an Olympic spot know they’ve made the cut and the other half are still aiming for selection, adding extra strain to the make-or-break nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra 17 World Championship, the last major class title before Tokyo 2020. Big news on the eve of racing is that New Zealand’s Rio […]
