New Skiff Leaders
Van Aanholt Overcomes Fright Odile van Aanholt with Elise de Ruyter (NED) surged into the lead just two days after Odile was hoisted off her boat in a frightening incident at the windward mark. The Dutch pair took the low points of the day by a wide margin compared to the other top teams, and […]
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 49er 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 […]
Finally – Racing starts in Thessaloniki
The 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 European Championships begins racing on September 14, 2021. It was originally scheduled for May 2020, then September 2020, then May 2021, and now finally will occur in the denouement from Tokyo 2020. 112 teams are competing, with attendance mostly limited to Europeans, but with a few teams from Oceania […]
Fletcher and Bithell (GBR) take gold by the slimmest of margins from Burling and Tuke (NZL)
Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell become the first British team to win 49er gold, and in the process knock Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) from their perch atop the sailing world. The medal race was a tense and intense race from start to finish, with all of the protagonist teams sailing well and going […]
Grael and Kunze (BRA) Repeat Gold with Courage and Smarts
The Brazilian 49erFX Champions repeated their Rio performance after beating their challengers in another incredibly tight medal race. Sailing as always with courage, guts, and smarts, Grael and Kunze (BRA) worked hard to win the boat end of the start line, got the first shift, consolidated over the top of their challengers, and then extended […]
Will the Champions Repeat?
The 49er and 49erFX medal races each set the returning Rio Gold medalists against a cadre of worthy challengers. It will not be an easy task for either Peter Burling with Blair Tuke (NZL) nor Martine Grael with Kahena Kunze (BRA) to defend their titles. There will be no simple match races of a single […]
Burling with Tuke – Bekkering with Duetz Jump into Narrow Leads
A Totally Different Challenge Show Top Teams in Full Command of their Skiffs Fleet racing at its best is meant to challenge teams to race across a variety of conditions in order to discover who is best. A phrase uttered dozens of times at elite regattas, Burling and Tuke (NZL) win the day to move […]
Top six emerging in 49er
Jonas Warrer, the 2008 gold medalist, sailing with Jakob Jensen (DEN) had the best day on the water for the two make-up races on day 3. But the bigger story is how six teams have sailed to the top of the table leaving teams like Poland, Australia, Austria, and Croatia to play catch up. On […]