Glamour conditions greeted the 178 international teams on the opening day of racing at the 2019 Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra17 Oceania Championships. The three-day warmup regatta before next weeks world championships is hosted by Auckland’s Royal Akarana Yacht Club on the shores of the Waitemata.
Sailing is a sport of taking your opportunities and a big one is dangling in front of the New Zealand crews competing at next week’s Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships.
The Japanese 49er team of Leo Takahashi and Ibu Koizumi need a top performance at the 2019 Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championship, December 3 – 8 on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour, to qualify themselves for Tokyo 2020.
For a pair who typically spend more than 150 days each year overseas, Alex Maloney
The International 49er and Nacra17 Class Associations, along with the host club Royal Akarana Yacht Club, are proud to announce a partnership with New Zealand streaming platform SidelineApp which will see the upcoming Oceania and World Championships broadcast in its entirety, live and available to sailing fans around the world.
There is no question that sailing as a sport has a huge environmental footprint. We
The final day of racing at the Asian 49er and 49erFX Championships 2019 demanded different skills as the early morning Southerly wind stayed on for much longer than usual.
Going into racing today may have seemed straightforward for the fleets, but the race course
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Sky Sport will broadcast live all six days of December’s 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17
All around the globe sailors are taking to the shores where we sail to help
The 2016 Rio Olympics were hugely successful for New Zealand’s sailors but even more so
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are regular free divers, often plunging into the ocean to
After a hit and miss regatta the final day came in beautifully so catch the
The physical limits of the 496 sailors from 46 nations racing at the Hempel World
Brazil’s Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze got off to a perfect start in the 49erFX
Rob Wilson’s team once pulled out 8000kg of rubbish from the sea floor in Wellington
49erPeter Burling and Blair Tuke have stamped their authority on the 49er class – again
49erPeter Burling and Blair Tuke from New Zealand continued their winning ways today and extended
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