The Last Cool Town In The World
The World of 49er Sailing has descended to San Isidro, a lovely suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The neighborhood stretches their hands to embrace another group of sailors to their ultra cool town nestled within a massive city. Picture semi restored VW beatles and ex-army jeeps lining the streets with brightly colored houses, each unique […]
SEIKO Development Program on the Junior World Championship 2015
Coach: Francisco Andrade This program has an important role in young sailors that have recently started to sail the 49er and 49erFX and also for sailors that don´t have a coach. Each year Seiko allows the 49er class to hire top talent to assist and coach teams and coaches that request for help. For 2015 […]
Dutch and Austrians Take Junior Titles in Flensburg
2015 marked the fourth ever Junior World Championship for 49er and the third for the 49erFX as 69 teams assembled in Flensburg, Germany to compete for the U24 titles. Much of the championship was blustery, with all races in full power conditions and occasionally into survival mode. It was a test for a broad spectrum […]
Opportunistic Local Heros Seize Lead on Home Waters
Day three in Rio was a make up day for 49erFX having only 4 races from a scheduled 6 after the first two days. The 49er sailors took the day off while the 49erFX spent a few hours in the athletes lounge waiting for the wind to come in. By mid afternoon the sea breeze […]
Halfway Point In Rio Reinforces Uniqueness of Area
49er and 49erFX teams have seen two days of class Rio (in August) conditions. The sea breeze establishes by early afternoon, there is time for some racing and then it calms down as the sun sets early by five-thirty. The racing is good, as in there is breeze, shifts, and generally fair racing, but it […]
Rio Rundown – Pressure – Water – Viruses – Wind
Teams are approaching the 2015 Rio Test Event in two very different manners. There are some federations that are treating the event as a full examination of their teams potential, including evaluation of teams performances with selection consequences. For other teams it is merely a test and an opportunity to learn about the location, fleet, […]
Burling – Tuke and Schutt Sisters with Rio International
The overall regatta comes to an end after two weeks and more than 120 races in 16 classes… best for last! We ended on Thursday at the Yacht Club of Rio de Janeiro the 28th International Week of Sailing. There were 14 days of competition and over 120 races held in Guanabara Bay in an […]
International Week Rio Sailing Reaches Penultimate Day
The penultimate day of the 28th International Sailing Week in Rio de Janeiro ended with foreign rule in Guanabara Bay Rays. New Zealand leads into the 49er while Denmark leads in the 49erFX. The wind came a little earlier and the Race Committee ran the full compliment of four races per fleet on the Sugarloaf course. […]
Gold Fleet Analytic Round Up-Day 3
The 2015 49er and 49erFX European Championships in Porto came to a close today with the Magic Marine Starting Competition and Seiko King of the Downwind for the 49ers. Yesterday’s winners in the 49erFX fleet was the pairing of Nielsen/Olsen (DEN 2) who came back with a set of impressive starts following a DSQ in the first race. Although they […]
Will this be the day Tuke and Burling get Beaten
It’s been almost an entire quadrennial since Peter Burling and Blair Tuke stood anywhere but the top of the podium after a regatta. They stood second in London, joyful of their Silver Medals but determined to improve the result. Since then it’s been 17 victories in a row, a record for any 49er sailor of […]