WATCH LIVE: Day 5 of 49er/FX and Nacra 17 Worlds 2026

We're streaming the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships from all weekend on The Foil YouTube channel, with commentary from Andy Rice and Olympic silver medallist Rebecca Netzler. Today's stream starts at 11:00 local / 10:00 UK, with the first race five minutes later.

What happened yesterday

Following Thursday's brutal survival test in the Bay of Quiberon – capsizes, pitchpoles, sailors literally reversing across finish lines to stay upright – Day 4 dialled the bay back into something closer to chess. A shifty 8-18 knot northwesterly, plenty of oscillation, and a clear payoff for anyone willing to commit to the right-hand side of the course. Three new overall leaders across the three classes, and a handful of pre-event favourites suddenly sailing for their lives.

Day 4 replay

The standings going into Day 5

The 49er belongs, for now, to New Zealand's Seb Menzies and George Lee Rush. The two 21 year olds posted a 5-8-2 yesterday – clean enough, even allowing for a 360-degree penalty turn metres from the finish in the final race that still didn't stop them taking second. Plenty of pace in the fleet behind them – Germans, Australians and the reigning French world champions Erwan Fischer and Clément Péquin all firing yesterday – but it's the Kiwis who carry a no-discard scoreline into Saturday.

The 49erFX has had the bigger reshuffle. France's Manon Peyre and Amélie Riou used their local knowledge to pull clear and now lead on 43 net points, five clear of reigning world champions Paula Barceló and María Cantero of Spain. Belgium's Isaura Maenhaut and Anouk Geurts sit third. Britain's Freya Black and Saskia Tidey, who came into gold fleet on top, slipped to sixth after a horror 18th in the middle race – though a race win in the third tells you the pace is still there when the conditions suit. The eye-catching name in trouble is the Lewin-LaFrance sisters of Canada, pre-event world number one and now 14th with serious work to do.

The Nacra 17 has also turned over on home water. French pair Tim Mourniac and Aloise Retornaz lead, with Italy's Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei two points behind after a 6-2-2 day that nobody else in the fleet could match. Britain's John Gimson and Anna Burnet, who started Friday with an eight-point cushion in hand, are now third and 15 points off the Italians – not catastrophic, but not the kind of gap you'd choose to be carrying into Sunday.

Today's forecast is for a complete reversal in wind direction. A new tactical puzzle for the leaders to solve, and exactly the kind of variable that could swing things again before Sunday's medal series decides the lot.

Live tracking for the 49er and 49erFX fleets is here; for the Nacra 17 here.

Full results and standings can be found here.