Nacra 17 Class Members Vote to Recommend Full Foiling
On the 19th of October the Nacra 17 class members assembled for an electronic Extraordinary
October 24, 2016
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On the 19th of October the Nacra 17 class members assembled for an electronic Extraordinary
After the first week of class testing we published a few videos from class member
The World Sailing Equipment Committee requested that Nacra 17 investigate an evolution to full foiling
The oldest man in the competition, recently recovered from cancer, won a gold medal. Santiago
Day 3 of the 2016 Nacra 17 Rio Olympic brought the fleet back together as
The previous word of the day was ‘tricky’. The word of the day for those
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves –
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.
Find out what’s on the agenda at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition today and
Pablo Defazio (35) and Mariana Foglia (34) Husband and wife are from Montevideo, Uruguay. They
Allan Norregaard and Annette Viborg are representing Danmark at the summer Olympics in Rio 2016. Allan and Anette have been sailing together since March 2015 at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia IBEROSTAR regatta. In May 2015 they won the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik. And they continued…
Sixth in the Medal Race was enough for Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves (GBR) to
Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank, both from Vienna, are representing Austria during the Olympics in
Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland 2016 – The 25-boat Nacra 17 fleet will be one of the most competitive in Weymouth and Portland with no fewer than nine of the world’s top ten set to compete.
Cousins Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin are set to make their Olympic debut at Rio 2016 in the Nacra 17 mixed multi-hull. The pair have been sailing together for eight years, having claimed their first overseas medal together in 2009 winning the ISAF Youth Worlds in Buzios, Brazil. They both grew up on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and currently train at Middle Harbour Sailing Club.
Swiss sailors Nathalie Brugger (30) and Matias Bühler (33) will represent Switzerland in Rio this summer. They met three years ago, when they started their Olympic campaign in the Nacra 17. They finished third at the Miami World Cup in January 2016 and finished their olympic qualification in February, at the Nacra 17 Worlds in Clearwater (USA). They head to Rio with high ambitions, having shown in the past few years very good results at the highest level.
Both Olympic veterans, Nikola Girke and Luke Ramsay have a wealth of experience across several Olympic sailing classes. Nikola has been to 3 Olympics; 2004 in the 470 and 2008 & 2012 in the RS:X Class. Her skills are suited perfectly to the fast boat racing and the intense physical fitness needed to crew the Nacra17.
Mandy Mulder (28) and Coen de Koning (32) are representing the Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Rio the Janeiro 2016. Olympic Silver medalist Mulder ((Ynling – Bejing 2008) and De Koning (World Champion F18 in 2008 en 2009) both started sailing in the Nacra17 in December 2012.
Nicole van der Velden (21) and Thijs Visser (26) are representing Aruba at the Olympic Games in Rio the Janeiro in August 2016. Van der Velden and Visser qualified their country at the Nacra17 World in July 2015 by finishing in the top ten. They are the first athletes in the history of Aruba to qualify the country for the Olympics.
The Sailing World Cup in Hyères from 25 April to 1 May and the Sailing World
The fifth season of SailGP launches this weekend in Dubai,
The 49er and Nacra 17 Classes invite expressions of interest
July 30 – August 3, 2025 | Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhagen,
Yesterday marked the conclusion of the European Nacra 17 Championships
Silver for Italy’s Ugolini and Giubilei, Junior Gold for Belgian
Four races were completed today by the fleet Nacra 17
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