The Reasoning Behind Foiling Regattas This Summer

The board of World Sailing formally requested that the Nacra 17 Class review its plans for the regattas this summer with respect to full foiling. As previously reported the class executive replied reiterating support for the plan to have foiling at both the Europeans and Worlds being the best plan. The Board of World Sailing wrote […]

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 […]