Nacra 17 Europeans 2015 @Barcelona: Saxton-Groves Champs
Images by Laurens Morel & Laura Carrau – While England suffered the elimination of the Rugby World Cup against Australia while playing at home, at Barcelona Ben Saxton & Nicola Groves save the day for the British fininshing 5th but just ahead of Aussies Bundock-Curtis to win the Nacra 17 Europeans 2015.
Last Olympic Tornado Champ Fernando Echavarri with Tara Pacheco doing excellent for the short time together and racing the class for a 6th overall.
When you are a top sailor like Fernando & Bundy the Class you sail is just a detail, great to have these two monster sailing along the new kids and having such fierce crews like Tara & Nina. The Nacra 17 must be right now the most demanding and challenging crew position in the Catracing scene.
Photos by Laurens Morel, full gallery here
Photos by Laura Carrau here
Top Ten below. Final Results at nacra17barcelona2015.com/en/default/races/race-resultsall
| SAIL # | BOW# | CREW | NET POINTS | TOTAL POINTS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | MR | |
| 1 | GBR 254 | 2 | Ben Saxton Nicola Groves |
64 | 88 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 10 |
| 2 | AUS 242 | 3 | Darren Bundock Nina Curtis |
68 | 82 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | DEN 281 | 18 | Allan Norregaard Annette Viborg |
71 | 88 | 10 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 |
| 4 | ITA 262 | 1 | Vittorio Bissaro Silvia Sicouri |
81 | 99 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 8 |
| 5 | AUT 240 | 6 | Thomas Zajac Tanja Frank |
85 | 110 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | ESP 028 | 19 | Fernando Echavarri Tara Pacheco |
95 | 125 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 14 |
| 7 | DEN 282 | 12 | Lin Ea Cenholt Christian Peter Lübeck |
102 | 119 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 2 |
| 8 | GER 211 | 9 | Paul Kohlhoff Carolina Werner |
109 | 135 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 20 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
| 9 | FRA 077 | 4 | Franck Cammas Sophie De Turckheim |
111 | 139 | 3 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 28 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 20 |
| 10 | FRA 225 | 7 | Moana Vaireaux Manon Audinet |
130 | 173 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 13 | BFD | 14 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 18 |
