Nathan Outteridge Becomes Interim President of the Nacra 17 Class
Gold medalist Nathan Outteridge of Australia, has been appointed by the executive of the Nacra 17 Class to become the interim president of the International Nacra 17 Class Association. Outteridge moves into the Presidential role within the class taking over from Marcus Spillane (IRL). Spillane was recently elected as Vice President of World Sailing, and […]
Carlos de Beltran becomes Head of Technical Committee – Nacra 17
The Nacra 17 Class is thrilled to announce Carlos de Beltran has agreed to become the Head of our Technical Committee for the Nacra 17. As Head of the Technical Committee he also joins our class executive. Carlos is formerly the Technical Director at World Sailing, a measurer of the 35th America’s Cup, an equipment […]
Nacra 17 Class Votes On Rules Update
On May 21st there was a Extraordinary General Meeting of the International Nacra 17 Class World Council followed by a 48 hour voting period. 18 special resulutions were discussed and voted on, along with a class policy and a constitution change to move the organization to Switzerland. These were subsequently voted on. The full details […]
Update – Gennaker Upwind at Worlds – Proposed Vote by Entrants at the Open Forum
Overnight one of the Class Executives, after training, changed their view on the issue of using the gennaker upwind at the World Championship next week. They now believe that we should NOT allow the use of the gennaker upwind even this close to the start of the Championship. As a result there is now a […]
Class Update following the Nacra Sailing recall of Foiling Boats
On Friday August 11, 2017, Nacra Sailing issued a recall and sent it to all foiling boat owners as well as the class executive. The recall notice is included at the bottom of this communication. The chain of events that lead to this recall are as follows: Two test foils broke about 6 weeks before […]
2017 Nacra 17 EGM
Dear Nacra 17 Sailors, On July 9, 2017 voting closed for the Extraordinary General Meeting of the class. 8 class rule changes and 2 policy changes were taken to a vote. The primary reason for holding an AGM at this time was to update the class rules to manage the evolution of the class to […]
Review of Nacra Sailing Facilities in the Netherlands
Nacra 17 Class Manager, Ben Remocker, spent 3 days prior to Hyeres visiting the Nacra facilities in the Netherlands along with Simon Forbes, from the World Sailing technical staff. We were hosted by Peter Vink from Nacra. While no new boats were delivered at that point, it was possible to review all the tooling, beams, […]
The Reasoning Behind Foiling Regattas This Summer
The board of World Sailing formally requested that the Nacra 17 Class review its plans for the regattas this summer with respect to full foiling. As previously reported the class executive replied reiterating support for the plan to have foiling at both the Europeans and Worlds being the best plan. The Board of World Sailing wrote […]
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 […]
