Press Release by Sail NC: "Racing Cancelled On Day Two of A-Class Catamaran North American Championship; Points Leader Mahoney Tests New Flying Foils In Evening Breeze

Press release by Rachel Jasperen / OceanIamges.co.uk
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Capricious Wind Brings Challenging Start To North American A-Cat Champs
Sailors and Boats of All Ages And Designs In The Hunt

Press Release: "Moon Bucks superstition to take practice race for North American Championship"
50-Strong A-Cat Fleet Readies For North Carolina Sun and Fun

PRESS RELASE sent by Pier Faccin / Italian Association.

The 2014 edition is building up to become a great event: 60 boats registeres plus High quality material will be provided during the event. Check preview video below.

Images & Press Release by Rachel Jasperen
A-Class catamarans a class for all ages

North Americans preview by Bailey White, USACA President.
A-Class Championship around the corner
With less than one week to go there is great excitement building for this year’s A-Class North American Championships in North Carolina. Here are some words from Bailey White – The president of the USACA.

"We have a very strong entry list from across the United States and Canada, with some sailors traveling as far as 3000 miles to race. Competitors range from amateurs who love to sail to professionals from the America's Cup.

This article was made entirely by Tibo Laudren at the 2014 French Nats.
Besson raced the French designed & built Askell, a project by Dorian Le Pluart. What a nice project the Askell has become, I like how they went full forward beyond any contextual aspect and achieved an excellent 2nd place at La Baule , and looking ahead to the Europeans. The Askell has arrived.

Many thanks to Billy, Tibo and Dorian Le Pluart for this insight and the excellent pics by Stephanie Billarant
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Q&A with Billy Besson by Thibault Laudren.

This weekend the Class had two great events organized in parallel by the French & the Italian Association, along the hosting clubs: Cercle Nautique La Baule & Circolo Vela Arco http://www.circolovelaarco.com/
Kudos to both Classes to put almost 100 boats on the water. Image British Assoc.

All images Charles Marion. Great success for the 2014 French Nats organized by the Cercle Nautique La Baule. 53 Boats racing including two new French built designs.
Francois Gabart secured the title yesterday and today he didn´t race the the 9th final 'manche'. Gabart sailed the D3 designed by Gonzalo Redondo and built by Dominik Scheurer in France.
Mast was provided by Askell , the new French A-Cat built by the Le Pluart bros who provided the full boat to Billy Besson that ended second overall.

Mischa Heemskerk took the lead after the 3 races completed today. Luca Maffessoli holds second place followed by Thilo Keller and Helmut Stumhofer.
The event continues today (Monday).

No sailing pics available yet. Official Website http://circolovelaarco.com/en/icalrepeat.detail/2014/05/31/60/a-cat-eur…