White and Urwin win day
White and Unwin (GBR) win the day Rupert White with Kirstie Urwin scored a pair of third and won the middle race to move up from ninth to third overall. Gimson and Burnet (GBR) continue to lead despite scoring their worst race of the regatta on the first race of the day. View this post […]
New Race Winners Propel Teams to Top other to Gold Fleet
French Nacra Squad Making Strides Paris, and the sailing in Marseilles, will be here before we know it. For three French Nacra 17 teams, they are working cooperatively on the med coast, sharing time between Marseilles and La Grand Motte, and working against time to move into the elite group as quickly as possible. In […]
Next Generation of Spanish, German, Austrian, and American Skiffs Assemble in Front
Training Partners Step Up Most of the big names in nacra17 sailing are taking some well earned time off after Tokyo. As such, now is the time for the Paris potential stars to usurp the aging veterans. Some names we might expect, like Tim Fischer with Fabian Graf (GER), who took the bronze medal at […]
Raw Rookies and Olympic Veterans Lead On Day One
New sis on the block The Schultheis sisters had a storybook start to their first ever European Championships winning all three races. Fresh out of the 29er class, with only a Youth Worlds and Kiel week in their FX experience column, they were not phased by the 37 boat fleet and used great starts and […]
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.
