New era of live sailing coverage at 2019 Hyundai nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra17 World Championships
The International nacra17 and Nacra17 Class Associations, along with the host club Royal Akarana Yacht Club, are proud to announce a partnership with New Zealand streaming platform SidelineApp which will see the upcoming Oceania and World Championships broadcast in its entirety, live and available to sailing fans around the world.
Nacra17 Athletes Descend on Auckland
Past Olympic champions and future medal hopefuls alike are descending on Auckland, New Zealand, for some pre-event training ahead of the 2019 nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra17 World Championships, to be held in early December from the Royal Akarana Yacht Club. Ravi Parent and Caroline Atwood have set the SEND bar high already. What starts as […]
Sky Sport New Zealand to broadcast nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra worlds
Sky Sport will broadcast live all six days of December’s nacra17, nacra17FX and Nacra 17 world championships in Auckland, New Zealand, which is believed to be a world first for an Olympic class sailing world championships. As many as 400 of the world’s best sailors, including New Zealand’s Peter Burling and Blair Tuke and Alex […]
Community gathers to remove ghosts of past
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are regular free divers, often plunging into the ocean to check out marine life, but they took a dive with a difference yesterday. And it was one that scared them. The four-time world and Olympic nacra17 champions joined a team of about 20 divers led by Ghost Fishing New Zealand to […]
Great races conclude Enoshima session
After a hit and miss regatta the final day came in beautifully so catch the action in these videos of the medal races below. Analysis and spoilers to follow, so watch first if you haven’t seen. The Nacra 17 medal race was compelling, there is no doubt. with 6 teams fighting for the win, all […]
Ghost divers to plunge into Okahu Bay, Auckland
Rob Wilson’s team once pulled out 8000kg of rubbish from the sea floor in Wellington harbour in an hour. One. Hour. That’s a mindblowing amount. Among the rubbish they hauled to the surface were 43 truck tyres, 37 street cones, a collection of shopping trolleys, bikes, computers… “You name it, we hauled it,” Wilson says. “We have […]
Tita & Banti Back to their Winning Ways
The 2018 World, European and just about every major regatta champions of Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti have secured a commanding 12 point victory at the Test Event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. With only one result outside of the top ten, Tita and Banti grabbed the lead on the third day day of […]
Ready Steady Tokyo – 5 Way Podium Battle
Another day of racing and another style of breeze for the Tokyo2020 Olympic Test event in Enoshima, Japan. In a much more stable and predictable sea breeze the Nacra17 leaderboard tightened up around the top five teams as we head into tomorrow’s double points medal race. Italian’s Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti and Argentina’s Santiago […]
Ready Steady Tokyo Day 3 – Rio Medallists on the Move
Racing on the Tokyo Olympic medal race course in Enoshima Japan, the Argentinian team of Santiago Lange & Cecilia Carranza Saroli, who captured the hearts of the world in Rio three years ago, could be on track for an epic repeat just one year out from the Tokyo 2020 games. Lange & Saroli were dynamic […]
All change for New Zealand Nacra 17 teams only one year from Tokyo!
Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders, the fourth place Nacra 17 team from Rio 2016, have split up just one year from the 2020 games. Each sailor has formed a new partnership and in total three new Nacra 17 crews have emerged with less than one year to go until the games – each could be […]
