Boat Allocation List for Foiling Nacra 17
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January 13, 2017
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Sailors Down Under Ready for Future
From Sailing World Cup Final – Melbourne – Day 2 Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallists
December 7, 2016
Full Foil Nacra 17 Testing Continues
More feedback on the Nacra 17 Full Foiling Tests. We caught up with Chris ‘foiling’
November 4, 2016
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
Nacra 17 MK2 Initial Testing Continued
After the first week of class testing we published a few videos from class member
October 17, 2016
Initial Testing of the Nacra 17 mk2
The World Sailing Equipment Committee requested that Nacra 17 investigate an evolution to full foiling
October 7, 2016
Emotional Nacra gold for Argentina
The oldest man in the competition, recently recovered from cancer, won a gold medal. Santiago
August 17, 2016
Fleet Squares Up Under Breezy Sunshine
Day 3 of the 2016 Nacra 17 Rio Olympic brought the fleet back together as
August 13, 2016
‘Brutal conditions’ in a test of survival on Thursday in Rio
The previous word of the day was ‘tricky’. The word of the day for those
August 12, 2016
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves –
August 12, 2016
Bekatorou and Pateniotis (GRE) probably the shortest Olympic campaigners in history
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.
August 12, 2016
Big Breeze for the Mixed Multihull debut + How to follow race day #3
Find out what’s on the agenda at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition today and
August 10, 2016
Husband and wife Pablo Defazio and Mariana Foglia from Uruguay will race to RIO!
Pablo Defazio (35) and Mariana Foglia (34) Husband and wife are from Montevideo, Uruguay. They
July 2, 2016
Meet the Danish Nacra 17 team Allan Norregaard and Anette Viborg
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…
July 2, 2016
Saxton and Groves win gold in Weymouth
Sixth in the Medal Race was enough for Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves (GBR) to
June 13, 2016
Team Introduction Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank
Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank, both from Vienna, are representing Austria during the Olympics in
June 7, 2016
Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland
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.
June 4, 2016
Cousins Jason Waterhouse & Lisa Darmanin sailing in Rio
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.
May 19, 2016
Team Switzerland: Matìas Bühler and Nathalie Brugger
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.
May 11, 2016
Meet Luke Ramsay and Nikola Girke from Canada
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.
May 10, 2016
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