First Win of 2018 Goes to Number 1 – On Water and In Our Hearts
Each year there is a warm up regatta prior to the Miami World Cup on Martin Luther King holiday weekend in the USA. This year it was the 2018 mid-winter regatta and it was a perfect warm up regatta. There are still boat supply limitations on Nacra 17, with few teams having two boats and […]
Nacra 17 Announcing 2018 European Championship
nacra17, nacra17FX, Nacra 17, and Male/Female Foiling Kitesurf will compete for the 2018 European Championship in La Rochelle, France. These 5 progressive sailing events will wow the nautical French city one month before the first Olympic qualifiers. Together these 5 events represent some of the most dynamic athletes in sailing. These sailors push modern craft […]
2018 U23 Championship an Early Preview to Paris 2024
The very best Junior 2 person sailing teams will be getting a preview of Paris 2024 as the U23 nacra17, nacra17FX, and Nacra 17 Junior World Championship is set for the end of August 2018. Marseille will host the championship, and the Olympic racing six years later, giving sailors, officials, and fans a look at […]
World Sailing releases report on Gulari Incident and Injury
World Sailing produced two injury reports this summer after high profile incidents while training and racing. One of those incidents occurred before the 2017 Nacra 17 World Championship where American helmsman Bora Gulari was thrown from his Nacra 17 in a pitch pole and had parts of three fingers amputated. Here is a copy of […]
Inheriting the Legacy – Creating New Glory
2017 SYC Shanghai Cup and Nacra 17 Asian Championship has come to a successful close today (29th October). 12 teams of 24 top sailors from Austria, New Zealand, Brazil, Italy, Denmark, the U.S., Germany, Singapore, China and Hong Kong, China have competed with all their might in the past two days. And eight intense races, […]
Shanghai Cup Launches Into Foiling Era
An historic milestone was reached at 1400 local time on Saturday October 28th, when the Huangpo River was shut down to commercial traffic for the first time in over 100 years for the resurrection of the Shanghai Cup. The Shanghai Yacht Club has resurrected this sailing competition last competed for on home waters in 1876 […]
Britons Saxton and Dabson Win 2017 Nacra 17 World Championship
From the closest and most exciting finish to a world championship Medal Race in the Olympic history of the multihull class, Great Britain’s Ben Saxton and Katie Dabson pipped Spanish rivals Fernando Echavarri and Tara Pacheco, foiling at full speed across the finish line to win the 2017 Nacra 17 World Championship title on the […]
Big Day in Prospect Britons Saxton and Dabson Lead into Nacra 17 World Champs Showdown
Title contenders at the Nacra 17 World Championships in La Grande Motte in the South of France may be relishing what is expected to be a big winds Sunday finale, a chance to show the newly foiling, flying Nacra 17 at its best and most exciting, but they had to deal with a penultimate day […]
Italians Do It Better?
It is not Le Tricolore but the Il Tricolor, the Italian tricolour flying highest over La Grande Motte in the South of France after the first day of gold fleet racing at the Nacra 17 World Championships. As the intensity of the first day of gold fleet Finals racing took full effect, compounded by there […]
Danes Lead Into the Sharp End of the Nacra 17 World Championships
The top two crews at the Nacra 17 World Championship both emerged from a challenging Race 7 of the Qualifying Series with their worst results yet. But, showing the hallmarks of potential champions, both regrouped and were immediately back into their stride during the subsequent two heats and so head into Friday and Saturday’s Finals […]