Grael and Kunze (BRA) Repeat Gold with Courage and Smarts
The Brazilian 49erFX Champions repeated their Rio performance after beating their challengers in another incredibly tight medal race. Sailing as always with courage, guts, and smarts, Grael and Kunze (BRA) worked hard to win the boat end of the start line, got the first shift, consolidated over the top of their challengers, and then extended […]
Will the Champions Repeat?
The 49er and 49erFX medal races each set the returning Rio Gold medalists against a cadre of worthy challengers. It will not be an easy task for either Peter Burling with Blair Tuke (NZL) nor Martine Grael with Kahena Kunze (BRA) to defend their titles. There will be no simple match races of a single […]
Burling with Tuke – Bekkering with Duetz Jump into Narrow Leads
A Totally Different Challenge Show Top Teams in Full Command of their Skiffs Fleet racing at its best is meant to challenge teams to race across a variety of conditions in order to discover who is best. A phrase uttered dozens of times at elite regattas, Burling and Tuke (NZL) win the day to move […]
Leading British Couple
In the Men’s and Women’s Skiff events, both halves of an engaged couple are sharing the limelight in their respective boats, Dylan Fletcher (GBR) taking the lead in the 49er and his fiancée Charlotte Dobson (GBR) maintaining top spot in the 49erFX. Alongside the big waves across Sagami Bay, the sailors thrived in 14-17 knots […]
Strong Winds, Strong Nerves make for Lively FX Start
Strong Winds and Strong Nerves – Dobson and Tidey Rise to the Occasion After a slow start in the first race, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey (GBR) put the hammer down, moved through the fleet and proved unstoppable. It was a sign of things to come. Behind them all kinds of unforced errors were striking […]
The Chase for Burling and Tuke – can anybody knock down the champs
Since winning Olympic gold in the Men’s Skiff – 49er at Rio 2016 five years ago, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) have packed a whole lifetime of sailing achievements into their busy careers. Click here for the 49er video preview. In 2017 Burling steered Emirates Team New Zealand’s foiling catamaran to victory at the […]
Dobson and Tidey (GBR) win in Cascais
After leading the championship since day one, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey from GBR bid farewell to Cascais from the highest place on the podium. Dobson and Tidey, after a less successful first race of the day, regained the breakneck pace having been runner up and a bullet on the last two fleet races. The […]
France and America consolidate leadership in Cascais
Cascais Bay gives participants headaches. On the second day of the 2021 Cascais 49er & 49er Fx Championship races, the forty Olympic boats filled the bay of Cascais with colour to complete the three races planned for this day. Once again, it was up to the ladies’ fleet to start hostilities in Cascais Bay. This […]
India, China, South Africa, and Tunisia win Olympic Berths in Mussanah
Ganapathy Chengappa with Varun Thakkar (IND) have won the Mussanah Open Championship, and with it a berth in the Tokyo Olympic games by the narrowest of margins. Just two points separated them from the chasing Akira Sakai with Russel Alysworth (HKG) who did all they could by winning the final four races of the regatta […]
Belgium Chasing Ireland and Croatia for Final Olympic Berth
Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove (IRL) were one major mistake away from a stupendous day in their bid to win the final Olympic 49er berth for Tokyo 2020. The 2018 Junior World Champions won two of the three races on the day, but scored a UFD (over the start line early) in the middle race […]