NOR for the 2013 Europeans in Barcelona, Spain

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Please find attached the final version of the Notice of Race of the Europeans in Barcelona duly approved by the IACA and the ISAF.

Also, we inform you that the website of the event is: www.vela.cat/bisc

For accommodation, Barcelona has a lot of opportunities as a big city and near the venue it´s a lot of hotels and a big commercial center with restaurants/cinemas/shops (less than 1 km).

The travel agency that we have contacted in order to manage the accommodation of sailors if they want to ask is the following:

New Zealand 2013 Nats for Blair Tuke

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Blair Tuke swept the NZ Nationals with an impressive 9 bullets out of 10 races. Followed by Murray Philpot and Dave Shaw. Mike Drummond race again with his rather unconventional H16 style tramp A-Class, he ended 7th, and judging on past performance that platform needs some additional tuning.
Full image Gallery at http://a-class.org.nz/photos.htm , check "2013 Nationals" link.

Catamaranparts Vision at London Dinghy Show by the British A-Class Association

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Following the success at last years stand at the London Dinghy Show, the British A Class Catamaran Association will be returning again in 2013.

This year the Association will be displaying the hugely successful Vision A-Cat from www.Catamaranparts.nl. After two seasons of intensive prototype testing, the Vision in the capable hands of top flight British sailor Chris Field has returned many successes in 2012 culminating with Chris being Crowned European Champion at Garda last June against a fleet of almost 100 world class sailors.

A-Cats present at Dusseldorf thanks to the German Assoc

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The German A-Class Association is taking care with 5 of its members of the visitors inquires at the A cat stand at Dusseldorf Boat Show.
A DNA fitted with Landenberger is fully assembled giving the Class an excellent exposure. Nice touch having Outteridge, Peyron and other ACup sailors sailing As on several images attached to the boat. Great work done by the 'Vereinigung Deutscher A-Division Catamaran' Check their site at http://www.a-cat.info/

Regatta Tracking

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At the 2011 worlds in Denmark we had live tracking for all races, which was very appreciated by friends, family and A-Cat interested sailors all over the world. It generated a lot of hits on the event web page - which is a good parameter to attract sponsors.

But tracking doesn't come for free, it is an extra expense (and work load) for the organizers, and one of the reasons we didn't have that again in Islamorada.