It’s tough to find a less forgiving doublehanded dinghy than a 49er or a 49erFX, two high-­performance skiffs so tender they can’t sit on their lines when ­fully rigged unless they have an ­agile and ...

Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken are closing in on a successful defence of their 49er world title after a good day off the Nova Scotia coast - and they are not the only Dutch sailors primed for ...

Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz also excelled in 49erFX racing at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships at St. Margarets Bay. Van de Werken and Lambriex won the first race of the day ...

Women’s Skiff racing is in its infancy. With the exception of a few ambitious women who jumped into 18 footers or raced 49er against the men, this past four years is the first large scale movement of ...

With the first major event of the 2026 season approaching in Palma, the 49erFX fleet is shaping up for another year of incredibly tight racing.

Maggie Shea ’11, who finished 11th in the Women’s Skiff – 49erFX at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, will represent the United States once again at the 2024 Games in Paris this summer. Shea and her ...

A clear and sunny Day 8 of adrenaline-packed Olympic racing on Guanabara Bay proved one thing: medal races are upon us. Men’s Laser and women’s Laser Radial wrapped up their opening series races on ...

Irish 49er and 49erFX crews race in Palma training regatta ahead of the Trofeo Princesa Sofia Olympic classes event.

SINGAPORE – Over the last two decades, Cecilia Low and Elizabeth Yin have sailed the same seas, though never in the same boat. Their friendship stretches back to their days as youth sailors, when they ...