Sailors Down Under Ready for Future
From Sailing World Cup Final – Melbourne – Day 2 Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallists Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (AUS) continue to control the Nacra 17 fleet and made it five wins in a row, but New Zealand’s young guns Olivia Mackay and Micah Wilkinson halted the Aussies dominant run by winning the sixth […]
Full Foil Nacra 17 Testing Continues
More feedback on the Nacra 17 Full Foiling Tests. We caught up with Chris ‘foiling’ Rashley after a 3-day stint testing the new foiling set Nacra 17’s. Sailing with British Olympic crew Nicola Groves, the duo was nicely welcomed to what is a well set up testing program. The two foilers, one converted, one new […]
Nacra 17 Class Members Vote to Recommend Full Foiling
On the 19th of October the Nacra 17 class members assembled for an electronic Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). Three topics debated were a) an update to the class constitution b) advertising c) whether or not class members recommend full foiling for 2020 or not A presentation covering the proposed changes to equipment, pricing, and procedure […]
Nacra 17 MK2 Initial Testing Continued
After the first week of class testing we published a few videos from class member testing in the Netherlands. Here is the second week testing videos. So far both weeks have featured lots and lots of wind with typically difficult short NED chop. Highlights to date are controlability in difficult conditions and the absolutely nutty […]
Initial Testing of the Nacra 17 mk2
The World Sailing Equipment Committee requested that Nacra 17 investigate an evolution to full foiling looking toward the 2020 games in Tokyo. The current edition of the boat has lifting C foils that teams can occasionally make balance to give it full lifting from the water, but in an unstable manner. Unluckily, the initial briefs […]
Emotional Nacra gold for Argentina
The oldest man in the competition, recently recovered from cancer, won a gold medal. Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza Saroli (ARG) have won gold after a heart-stopping Medal Race in the Nacra 17 Mixed Multihull. Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (AUS) took silver and bronze goes to Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank (AUT). The Argentineans […]
Fleet Squares Up Under Breezy Sunshine
Day 3 of the 2016 Nacra 17 Rio Olympic brought the fleet back together as the overnight leading duo of teams struggled while the French push for a comeback. Billy Besson and Marie Riou (FRA) dominated the day with a 2, 1, 1 to score only 4 points and move back from the teens into […]
‘Brutal conditions’ in a test of survival on Thursday in Rio
The previous word of the day was ‘tricky’. The word of the day for those that went out to sea on day four was ‘survival. The Olympic sailing competition again produced the extremes of flat water and shifty conditions on the inshore courses with the giant wind and size-of-a-house waves out on the seaward courses. […]
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves –
Bekatorou and Pateniotis (GRE) probably the shortest Olympic campaigners in history
Bekatorrou and Patentiotis are possibly the shortest Olympic campaigners in history. With one last chance to qualify your nation at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma de Mallorca in the Nacra17 fleet, Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou called an old friend she had known and had sailed with before, Michalis Pateniotis.
