2013 Cat Sailor of the Year Nominees

Image Thom Touw – Nacra 17 Worlds. Besson-Riou. Last year we had Olivier Backes & Mathiew Vandame , Mischa Heemskerk & Carolijn Brouwer
Backes & Matthiew had more votes on achieving the Triple Crown of the F18: Europeans, Eurocat & Worlds at LA.
For this year we have French favorites again with  Billy Besson (F18 with jeremy Lagarrigue & Nacra 17 Worlds with Marie Riou), Franck Cammas (C-Class, Volvo Ocean Race, Olympic campaign) , James Spithill & Dean Barker on their class onboard the foiling AC72s

I think also one of the Nacra 17 girls must be on the list and Henri Demesmaeker, the 12 yrs old F16 World Champ. Any other sailor with local or unknown achievement, racing or not can be voted too , just send your story to catsailingnews gmail com and we’ll make the Poll with detailed reference for each sailor, for people to vote at the end of November.

13 Responses

  1. JoAnne Holliday says:

    Spithill and Barker without a doubt

  2. Laurent says:

    Henri is only 12 years old 🙂

  3. poul hansen says:

    Andrew Simpson, the 2008 Olympic champion, who died in an America’s Cup training accident in May

  4. Gerard Loos says:

    I go for Henri

  5. romain says:

    Besson / Riou… Or Cammas !

  6. catsailingnews says:

    Remember this is just nominations. Actual votes will be done in CSN FB in some weeks.

  7. Jeff Dusek says:

    Easton/Burd: they have won everything in North America, top US team at 2012 Worlds, Nacra 17 campaigners, and just won the F18 Americas

  8. Tanker says:

    Spithill/ Anslie and team USA of course.

  9. NacramanUK says:

    Paul Larsen-destroyed the sail powered waters speed record, C class stalwart, multihull addict and genuine nice guy…..

  10. loboyforyou says:

    Henri Demesmaeker !!

  11. Marleen says:

    Henri of course!

  12. Thomas says:

    My vote goes to Henri Demesmaker. Showing the world, what is possible at that age has not happened before and will probably be untopped for many years.

  13. Ingrid says:

    Henri!