Nexba Racing

STATEMENT

As our close followers may be aware, team 'nexba' capsized in the very early hours of Saturday morning. The team were completing a 100nm qualifier and had left Pittwater early Friday afternoon to be back in Pittwater by early to mid-Saturday morning.
Around 1am on Saturday morning as the team made their way home to Sydney in light to moderate breeze and 1-2m seas, the boat capsized. After spending 15hrs drifting out to sea with the upturned vessel, the team were rescued and are now safe on land, and have recovered in hospital with minor injuries. They are not yet ready to talk about their ordeal in a public forum and are grateful for space at this time. They will release a statement when they are ready.

The girls wish to say:
“Thank you everyone for your kind words of support, we are so grateful to have survived an awful ordeal and for our amazing community of family, friends, fellow sailors (basically family) and all of the incredible people who assisted in our rescue effort.
Thank you so greatly in particular to everyone who assisted in the team’s rescue effort, especially the incredible and highly trained team from the HMAS Brisbane, the crew of the Arietta Lily, the water police, marine rescue, 000 and the many parties who helped in communicating our position.”

A full investigation into the events leading to the boats inversion and the efforts made by the team to survive will be conducted so that others can learn from this experience and avoid such a terrible ordeal.

We will see you all on the water again very soon. xx

🙅‍♀️STOP PRESS🙅‍♀️

Exciting news from Team Nexba 2022, not only is the boat here, sailing and in full preparation mode towards the Sydney to Goldcoast Yacht Race in July but the team has welcomed a new member!

Meet Clare Costanzo, 26 year old fizzer, foiler and ocean lover who will be joining Alice Tarnawski as they campaign towards Southport and beyond.

Clare lives on Sydney's Northern Beaches and comes from a background in match racing where she has competed on the international circuit multiple times. Clare and Alice have sailed together for years, their friendship going back as far as sailing flying 11s together at Avalon Sailing Club to more recently representing Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club - RPAYC and Australia at the Nation's Cup in San Francisco in 2019 before COVID-19 stopped the world.

Follow the teams instagram and Facebook to keep up with their progress and cheer them on as they put in the hard yards to get the Farr X2 race ready and raring for Southport 🚀💯🔥.



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