Asian 49er & 49erFX Championships 2019 – Day Two
The conditions 2019 Asian 49er and 49erFX Championship were fantastic all day, 7 to 11 knots of north easterly breeze out at Abu Dhabi. However, there were significant gusts and lulls across the course, with a few wind shifts thrown in for good measure. Akira Sakai and Russel Aylsworth managed to negotiate the course well […]
Asian 49er & 49erFX Championship 2019 – Day One
Abu Dhabi delivered beautiful conditions on Day One of the first Asian 49er and 49erFX Championships. In other words, the sunny skies and 09-knot north westerly breeze on a manageable swell was a similar version of what the competitors might expect at Abu Dhabi for the next year’s Tokyo 2020 Continental qualifier scheduled here during […]
Sky Sport New Zealand to broadcast 49er, 49erFX and Nacra worlds
Sky Sport will broadcast live all six days of December’s 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships in Auckland, New Zealand, which is believed to be a world first for an Olympic class sailing world championships. As many as 400 of the world’s best sailors, including New Zealand’s Peter Burling and Blair Tuke and Alex […]
Sailors Uniting to Help Clean Seas
All around the globe sailors are taking to the shores where we sail to help clean up plastic and other garbage. As passionate users of the sea, racers, cruisers, sailors young and old unite behinds a love of the oceans. While the 49er and Nacra 17 classes were hoping to participate and lead 200 such […]
Community gathers to remove ghosts of past
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are regular free divers, often plunging into the ocean to check out marine life, but they took a dive with a difference yesterday. And it was one that scared them. The four-time world and Olympic 49er champions joined a team of about 20 divers led by Ghost Fishing New Zealand to […]
Great races conclude Enoshima session
After a hit and miss regatta the final day came in beautifully so catch the action in these videos of the medal races below. Analysis and spoilers to follow, so watch first if you haven’t seen. 49er gold looked as if it was heading to Germany’s Tim Fischer and Fabian Graf but a capsize on […]
Limit pushed at Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima
The physical limits of the 496 sailors from 46 nations racing at the Hempel World Cup Series regatta in Enoshima, Japan were pushed on Thursday as big waves rolled through Sagami Bay. In the 49erFX, a number of the pre-event favourites were all black flagged in the first race of the day. Annemiek Bekkering and […]
Perfect start for Grael and Kunze as Hempel World Cup Series Enoshima commences
Brazil’s Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze got off to a perfect start in the 49erFX as racing commenced at the first regatta of the 2020 Hempel World Cup Series in Enoshima, Japan. Fresh from last week’s gold at Ready Steady Tokyo, the Olympic test event, the Brazilians could not have asked for a better day, […]
Ghost divers to plunge into Okahu Bay, Auckland
Rob Wilson’s team once pulled out 8000kg of rubbish from the sea floor in Wellington harbour in an hour. One. Hour. That’s a mindblowing amount. Among the rubbish they hauled to the surface were 43 truck tyres, 37 street cones, a collection of shopping trolleys, bikes, computers… “You name it, we hauled it,” Wilson says. “We have […]
Rio 2016 Gold Medallists Secure Victory at Tokyo2020 Test Event
49erPeter Burling and Blair Tuke have stamped their authority on the 49er class – again – 12 months out from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Finishing 8th in the double-points medal race today was enough to secure victory for Burling and Tuke. The Kiwis spent the entire medal race matching the Polish team of Lukasz […]