The latest news from across the class. Event coverage will appear here once it starts.
Forecast breeze arrived right on cue, three races went off in every fleet without delay, and the first real look at this year’s title contenders is starting to take shape MEDEMBLIK, NETHERLANDS, July 22, 2026Â Racing finally got going in Medemblik today, and the wind did not disappoint. All four fleets, the 49er, 49erFX, FX […]
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MEDEMBLIK, NETHERLANDS, July 21, 2026 The 2026 Junior World Championship officially got underway in Medemblik today, with practice races on the water this afternoon and an opening ceremony this evening that closed with a traditional Dutch cannon blast to send the fleet into race week. Sailors ran through practice races across all four classes starting […]
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Close to 120 boats and sailors from 26 nations gather in the Netherlands for five days of racing across the 49er, 49erFX, FX Open and Nacra 17 classes MEDEMBLIK, THE NETHERLANDS, July 20, 2026Â The 2026 Junior World Championship opens this week in Medemblik, Netherlands, where the best young sailors in the world will race […]
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Eckernförde, Germany, July 12, 2026 The final day of the 2026 European Championship turned out to be the hardest of the whole regatta, and in the end it was the one day the Baltic refused to play along. The Nacra 17 fleet launched on time for a midday start and spent the next three and […]
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Eckernförde, Germany — July 11, 2026 The final day of the elimination series had a slower start than usual. With the breeze forecast to build later in the day, racing was scheduled for a 12:00 start for the Nacra 17 fleet and the 49er and 49erFX Gold fleets — and after a short postponement, the […]
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Eckernförde, Germany — July 10, 2026 Day 4 brought the start of the elimination series for the 49er fleet — and another tricky, patchy forecast that turned racing into a game of chess. With the breeze light and unstable, today was all about finding the pressure on the water and tacking in the right places, […]
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Eckernförde, Germany — July 9, 2026 As predicted, Day 3 brought a very different Eckernförde. The big breeze of the opening days gave way to much lighter, shifty conditions that turned the racing technical and demanding — a day for patience, lane management and reading the water. And across all three fleets, it produced some […]
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If you needed any further proof that the 49er is the ultimate proving ground for high-performance sailing, look no further than the Canada Sail Grand Prix in Halifax two weeks ago. In a dramatic four-boat final on the F50 catamarans, the top three places were claimed by sailors whose careers were shaped in the 49er […]
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The countdown is officially on. In just seven days, the best 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 sailors in Europe and plenty of visiting fleets from outside the continent will hit the water in Eckernförde, Germany, for the 2026 European Championship, running July 7–12. It’s a fitting follow-on to what’s already been a huge month […]
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Kiel Week 2026 is a wrap. The wind was light and tricky all week, which — combined with the new format — made for a pretty unforgiving regatta. With fewer races than a traditional series and points being reset between phases, there was no room to write off a bad day and hope to claw […]
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