The Big Palma Preview
Palma is Back There has been so much disruption over the past few years to the sailing calendar. World Cups were restricted, the Sailing World Cup Final was added, sites turned from Rio to Tokyo, it was not clear what winners and losers would emerge in the regatta circuit. The fleet has spoken! Palma is […]
Wrap Up From Palma 2018
Day 1 – Qualifying Mallorca, Spain (April 2, 2018) – The light, unsettled breezes on the Bay of Palma presented a really testing opening day at the 49th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar. With a maximum eight race courses in operation, it was often the case that one Olympic fleet was struggling in next to no […]
Waterhouse and Darmanin On Top Over Full Range of Conditions
With nine full-fleet races in the books, and just three remaining, for the Nacra 17 at the 2018 World Cup Series Miami, USA, this much is clear: anyone hoping for a place on the podium in the Mixed Multihull is going to have to knock a defending Olympic medalist down a peg. Five of the […]
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 […]
Echavarri and Pacheco End An Era On Top Again
Fernando Echavarri and Tara Pacheco (ESP) gave the home fans something to cheer about as they claimed a deserved Mixed Multihull, Nacra 17, gold medal after a second-place finish in the Medal Race. The Spaniards finished out of the top three just once this week with their worst result a fourth. A top nine finish […]
Capitalise or catch up – World Cup Final Santander
Santander was baked in sunshine for the second day of World Cup racing as sailors looked to either capitalise on a great opening day, or play catch up after slow starts. Conditions were near on perfect for the 260 sailors from 41 nations racing across the ten Olympic fleets and Open Kiteboarding. Not a cloud […]
Prizegiving ISAF WOrld Championships
Prizegiving ISAF WOrld Championships
Billy Besson & Marie Riou already sure to be winners
With 21 points overall the French team Billy Besson & Marie Riou already are sure to be the new 2014 World Champions 2014 before the medal race will be sailed tomorrow. 2nd overall before the medal race is Italian team Vittorio Bissaro & Sylvia Sicouri with 55 points, followed by Australian team Jason Waterhouse & […]
Report ISAF Worlds Santander – day 2
After a long day of waiting the Nacra17 sailors were very keen this morning to start racing. Around 12.00 the wind was enough to go out and Yellow Fleet left the beach. They could race two good races.
No sailing in Santander on Monday
68 Teams from 31 countries were ready this morning to start the first day of their competition. The sailors in the Nacra 17 were keen to start sailing.
