Weather Forecast Day 2
Bright skies and mixed clouds great the sailors on the morning of Day 2. First up are 49erFX, and Nacra 17 C-Board. The air is stable this morning at 10 knots or so. I could build to up to 15 knots by one in the afternoon and then will be diminished by the sea breeze […]
Blasting In The Sun On Day One Of European Championship
Strong but shifty winds of 10-25 knots across the Kieler Bucht provided a perfect start to the Olympic 49er and 49erFX European Championship today. Four Qualifying races in the men’s 49er fleet saw Team GBR’s Dylan FLETCHER-SCOTT and Stuart BITHELL edge out the field by a point, while just ten points separate the top 17 […]
Weather Forecast Day 1
Day 1 looks to be a fantastic day to kick off racing at the European Championship. It’s three degrees warmer than yesterday, and mostly clear skies. Wind is currently 8-9 knots at 8:30 am, building to 15 knots throughout the morning. There is a chance for the wind to build higher than 15 knots to […]
Next Up – and Out
The 2017 European Championship for the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 is set to begin tomorrow, Sunday July 30. This will be the first event for the full foiling Nacra 17 since it evolved from its original C foil configuration to the Full Foil configuration, ushering in a new era of Olympic sailing. The first […]
How to Follow the 2017 Europeans
What’s On The 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 European Championship are on simultaneously from Kiel, Germany, July 30 – Aug 4. Additionally, there is a class championship of the C-Board (old type) of Nacra 17. There are 98 49er, 68 49erFX, 25 Foiling Nacra 17, and 17 C-Board Nacra 17. Additionally it is the Junior […]
A Balancing Act
Olympic sailing and campaigning is grueling and time consuming, which is why it becomes an athlete’s full-time job. Throw that in with attaining a college degree and you have Junior 49er sailors. Will Jones and Evan DePaul recently took home gold at 2017 49er Junior World Championships in Kingston, Ontario while Jones is completing a […]
Competitive Hunt for Junior Titles
With one day of racing to go in Kingston, Canada, the top Juniors are in a tight fight for the Junior World Championship. Kingston, home of the sailing at the 1976 Olympics, has lived up to it’s reputation for great sailing through the North American’s and now JWC, and teams making the trip will have […]
A Kiel Week Preview
Kieler Woche, where “Wurst, Bier, und Kälte” meet Olympic sailing, is fast approaching its 135th anniversary. The 49er racing will be held June 21-25 out of the Olympic Sailing Center in Kiel (Olympiahafen Schilksee), which was constructed for the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. It is on the northernmost coast of Germany, a 15-minute drive north […]
Shootouts in the Skiffs
It was a shootout in both the Men’s and Women’s Skiff with the leading competitors narrowly split. After a morning postponement, Medal Races kicked off on the Dune racing area in a light, fickle and challenging 8-12 knot north easterly breeze that tested sailors and the race committee alike. James Peters and Fynn Sterritt (GBR) […]
‘Keepers’ the target as the World Cup Final commences
The World Cup Final kicked off in Santander, Spain today (6 June) with sailors aiming to put some ‘keepers’ on the board. It’s a common phrase in sailing, you cannot win on the opening day, but you could lose it. Therefore the 260 competitors from 41 nations racing across the ten Olympic and open kiteboarding […]