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  • Notice of Race for the first Nacra 17 World and European Championships have been published.

    The International Nacra 17 Class Association is pleased to publish the Notice of Race for the first Nacra 17 World Championship and the European Championship.

    The world championship will be held at Hague, the Netherlands from Sunday 21 July to Sunday 28 July 2013, organized by the Royal Netherlands Sailing Association, the International Nacra 17 Class Association and the Foundation Nacra Events. The organisation has the expectation to be having 120 Nacra 17s participating at this first major event towards the Olympics of Rio 2016.

    The World Championships will be followed up three weeks later by the European championship which will be held at Centro vela Dervio, Italy from Sunday 18 August to Saturday 24 August 2013. The Organizing Authority is the Federazione Italiana Vela and yacht club Centro Vela Dervio in cooperation with the International Nacra17 Class Association.

    Event websites will be online soon.

    Full NoR Nacra 17 World Championship 2013 can be downloaded here

    Full NoR Nacra 17 European Championship 2013 can be downloaded here

     

  • Class Rules version 1.1

    Class Rules 1.1 are now online and effective from 22nd of March 2013

    Download here Class Rules version 1.1

    with the following amendments list

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  • National Flags

    For Palma and Hyeres World Cup please confirm your flag by email before the 18th of March!

    http://www.nacra17class.com/national-flags/

     

  • Registration Trofeo Princesa Sofia open

     

     

     

  • Barcelona Olympic Sailing Training Camp.

    10th to 14th April in the new Barcelona International Sailing Center.

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    Barcelona Olympic Sailing Training Camp_Quick Guide

    NoR_Barcelona Short Racing Grand Prix

     

  • ISAF Sailing Word Cup Miami – Jan.26 to Feb. 2, 2013

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    Results on http://mocr.ussailing.org/index.php/results/.

    To follow all the action this week in Miami, visit event website at http://mocr.ussailing.org for real-time racecourse blogging, commentary and fan interaction with Cover it Live, regatta results, photos and news updates.

    The event photo gallery at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ussailingmedia will be updated daily with both low-res and high-res versions by official event photographers and available for download.

    more photos on http://www.facebook.com/NacraSailing

    videos http://www.youtube.com/user/SailingWorldCup?feature=watch

     

  • Nacra 17 Class Rules Published

    The Nacra 17 Class Rules can be downloaded from the ISAF website.

    Nacra 17 Class Rules 2012

    Or the Nacra 17 ISAF Webpage:

    http://www.sailing.org/classesandequipment/N17.php

    30-11-2012

  • New Olympic Multihull Nacra 17 – Update

    The production of the Nacra 17, which is the new Olympic multihull for Rio 2016, is continuing at pace at the factory.

    By the end of the week boat number 70 will be laminated and the first containers are on their way to Europe.

    Nacra 17 in the fit-out.

    Since the Nacra 17 was chosen as the multihull for 2016 a lot of work has been done, the production of the Nacra 17 is spread over three continents and has been fine-tuned and the quality control has been optimised with the expectation to develop a class with a high one-design integrity and the best possible reliability. The progress also includes a fully revised version of the well know Nacra rudder-system with CNC-milling technology and a Q-bond system to glue the sail panels together before they are stitched, for a durable high strength.

    “This is an exciting time for us,” said Peter Vink, technical director of Nacra, “The last couple months we invested a lot in order to get a fine product up to Olympic sailors’ standard on the market. The Nacra 17 will be out of the box ready to go sailing, to put it simple plug and play with equal equipment for every sailor. The Nacra 17 one-design class rules will be published soon to make sure the class will keep its strict one-design integrity.”

     

    Testing the NACRA 17 at Nacra HQ in Scheveningen.

    Apart of the fact that the Nacra 17 is a strictly one-design class the sailors will still be able to trim their rig to their preference. To give the sailors a better pathway to find their own optimum rig setup Nacra has introduced three optional sail batten stiffness’s.  The top 4 battens of the 7 mainsail battens may be changed to the manufacturer supplied, relative to the standard (medium) supplied battens, harder or softer battens. Clearly coloured certification labels will make sure the battens can be identified by others while sailing.

    The table below gives the particulars of the Nacra 17 in comparison with other popular multihull classes the F18 and F16.

    Particular

    Formula 16

    Nacra 17

    Formula 18
    Hull Length

    5.00 m

    5.25 m

    5.55 m
    Beam

    2.50 m

    2.59 m

    2.60 m
    Mast Length

    8.50 m

    9.00 m

    9.00 m
    Total upwind sail area

    18.70 m2

    20.10 m2

    21.15 m2
    Spi Area

    17.50 m2

    19.00 m2

    21.00 m2
    Average crew weight

    130 kg

    ±135 kg

    150 kg
    Relative Righting Moment with average crew weight

    681 kg*m

    754 kg*m

    881 kg*m

     

    More information of the boat, the class and the upcoming events can we found at www.nacra17class.com 

     

    Nacra 17 platform alignment, in CNC cut Jig. 
     

    Nacra 17 in the fit-out.
     

    Nacra 17 Rudder upper-casting in CNC-milling machine.
     

    Nacra 17 bow bulkhead.
     

    Nacra 17s Flush deck.
     

    Final QC-Check in the fit-out.
     

    Q-bonding of Nacra 17 Jib panels for a durable high strength.
     

    Few Nacra 17 jibs.