2018 nacra17, nacra17FX, and Nacra 17 European Championships Awarded to Gdynia, Poland
The nacra17 and Nacra 17 Classes are excited to announce Gdynia, Poland as the venue for the 2018 European Championship. Up to 400 of the world’s best sailors will compete in Gdynia for the title of European Champion ahead of the 2018 World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. The event will be held at the Marina […]
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 MK2 Initial Testing Continued
After the first week of class testing we published a few videos from class member testing in the Netherlands. Here is the second week testing videos. So far both weeks have featured lots and lots of wind with typically difficult short NED chop. Highlights to date are controlability in difficult conditions and the absolutely nutty […]
Initial Testing of the Nacra 17 mk2
The World Sailing Equipment Committee requested that Nacra 17 investigate an evolution to full foiling looking toward the 2020 games in Tokyo. The current edition of the boat has lifting C foils that teams can occasionally make balance to give it full lifting from the water, but in an unstable manner. Unluckily, the initial briefs […]
