A-Class French Nats 2014, Day 2: Gabart leads, Besson 2nd.
Sailing images by Charles Marion. The French Assoc members are putting a 100% local show at La Baule, with local sailors and local built designs leading the 2014 Nats. This year with a fleet of 53 boats.
Photo: Above Billy Besson riding the French built Askell. Left Francois Gabart sailing the also French built D3 by Dominique Scheurer and designed by Gonzalo Redondo.
Last pic below: Besson’s Askell with Edit: Exploder like daggers made by Askell. I uploaded full Results and more pics at www.a-cat.org/?q=node/412
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
...Report was sent by an F18 Sailor, if you want Hobies reported send your own, we'll publish as usual. Cheers.
Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16