Analytics Round Up For Gold Fleet

The 2015 49er and 49erFX European Championships in Porto are continuing on with the Magic Marine Starting Competition and Seiko King and Queen of the Downwind, which began running in 2013. This year, the 25 boats from each of the gold fleets will be tracked with a chance to be crowned as they get off the water! […]

Kiwis bullet their way into the lead

New Zealand wins 5 out of 6 in today’s gold fleet finals   Helsinki, Finland – Day 4 – 2014 Seiko 49er & 49erFX European Championship The reigning World Champions from New Zealand dominated both the men’s and women’s fleets at the Seiko 49er & 49erFX European Championship in Helsinki today. With the sun shining […]

Magic Marine Morning Show With Beau Outteridge

  This years European championships in Helsinki will have a feature full morning show with interviews, Q&A and much more hosted by Banging the Corners founder Beau Outteridge. Tune in every day at 9:00AM (EEST) local Helsinki. UK 7:00 AM BST  

Kiwis sweep up in Marseille…

The final day of the 2013 SEIKO 49er & 49erFX worlds in Marseille started dramatically with a huge thunderstorm meaning the final races of the repêchage weren’t sailed today. A couple of hours later than expected the Petit Finalists were sent out to race. Due to the weather and timing schedule, the planned 3 races […]

Antipodeans on the Downwind Offence

Looking at the results this morning, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen were still in San Francisco, being that they only just made the first page of the results sheet! Qualifying in 17th for the semi-finals and with a string of results below 15 in the first 4 races of […]

Frantic Friday at The Seiko 49er & 49erFX World Championships

After yesterday’s frustrations on (but mainly off) the water, everyone was anxious to make the most of today as the fleets split for the closing stages of this year’s SEIKO 49er and 49erFX World Championships in Marseille. Today, the Gold fleets (Top 20 boats in both the 49er and FX fleets) were being tracked, racing […]

Le Mistral finally hits Marseille… just kidding!

Another day of painfully light winds meant we didn’t get much racing in today! The girls from Blue fleet went out to catch up on the race they lost yesterday, after a couple of attempts, the race got underway and we were back level. The plan was then to get another 2 qualifying races in […]

49er Worlds 2013 Day 1 Round Up

The 2013 Seiko 49er and 49erFX World Championships in Marseille now include the Magic Marine Starting Competition and the Seiko King & Queen of Downwind competitions. The fleets which are tracked each day are in with a chance to be crowned as they get off the water! The Magic Marine Starting Competition uses the GPS […]

SAP 49er & 49erFX Europeans 2013 – PRESS RELEASE: Friday 5 July 2013

   The daily video can be found here: http://youtu.be/bs2nTYEzfpo   ALL CHANGE AS 2012 OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALLISTS BURLING AND TUKE MOVE INTO THE LEAD IN THE 49ER, WITH DENMARK’S BAAD NIELSEN AND THUSGAARD OLSEN DOMINATING 49ER FX FLEET   The breeze increased on race day 4 at the SAP 49er & 49erFX Europeans 2013 in Aarhus, […]