Reviewing the Vakaros starting system and the reaching starts at the 2024 Junior Worlds
The 2024 Junior World Championship was used to test two concepts for 2025-2028 racing. One is the Vakaros Race Sense starting system, which puts a fancy GPS based device on each boat and each end of the start line to aid race officers in making start line decisions. The other was to test reaching starts […]
Jib Sheet Rigging
For the 2024 Nacra 17 World Championship the Technical Committee expect to see the following rules adhered to with regard to the jib sheet systems. C.6.1(g)(ii) states that if the double block on the traveller is replaced with a single block it can only be done if the resulting system is 2:1. This is […]
Welcome 2024
Happy new years everyone and welcome to 2024. What an exciting year we have ahead of us as all your hard work and dedication will culminate in Paris or in doing the best if your campaigns. Here are some of the latest items. Discount for Membership It’s time to become a member for 2024. In […]
2019 Memberships as of April 1st
2019 Members as of April 1st Eugenia Bosco AR Mateo Majdalani AR Daniel Mulley AT Barbara Nemec AT Laura Farese AT Barbara Matz AT Thomas Zajac AT Jason Waterhouse AU Lisa Darmanin AU Lucy Copeland AU Tayla Rietman AU Craig Fraser AU Samantha Simmonds AU Max Von Richter AU Paul Darmanin AU Lesley Wollmann BM […]
Nacra 17 Safety Advisory
Nacra 17 Safety (This is a public re-posting of email content sent to all nacra17 and Nacra 17 sailors in September 2018) Following the Nacra 17 class safety meeting in Gdynia, there has been continuous correspondence between the class, World Sailing, and Nacra Sailing on improving safety of Nacra 17 Racing. Some items have progressed […]
Testing Moving Rudder Position Inboard
In September and October, 2018, Nacra Sailing endeavored to test moving the rudder position on the Nacra 17 inboard from it’s current position. 2 positions were tested 80mm inboard from standard 220mm inboard from standard. (The 220mm position is the maximum inboard position available on the transom.) Findings at 80mm in: First test in 20kntos […]
Rule 42 for Aarhus 2018
Following on from the rule 42 guidance introduced at the Europeans 2018, president Marcus Spillane has submitted the following letter to the Aarhus 2018 jury, which we expect will be accepted. Therefore, teams should look for the official event notice, but expect to be racing under these rule 42 interpretations. Aarhus 2018 Rule 42 letter
Results of May 2018 Extraordinary General Meeting
On May 21, 2018 the Nacra 17 Class held an Extraordinary General Meeting to formally discuss and vote on class rules, class constitution, and a class policy. 23 countries along with all six voting executive members took part in the vote and the results are here: PDF of results Here is a link in more […]
Full Measurement at Palma
The Nacra 17 Technical Committee will use Palma as a testing forum for measurement processes of the class ahead of the 2018 Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta. Teams should expect to dedicate one day prior to the regatta to de-rigging, measurement, and re-rigging in the immediate preamble to racing. A full schedule will be published closer […]
Results of November 2017 Nacra 17 EGM
The results of the November 2017 Extraordinary General Meeting of the Nacra 17 class have been tabulated and the class will now work with World Sailing to introduce 6 new class rules, one change to the constitutions, and 1 policy change. With almost full participation in the voting, the Nacra 17 executive would like to […]
