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.
Spithill and Barker without a doubt
Henri is only 12 years old 🙂
Andrew Simpson, the 2008 Olympic champion, who died in an America’s Cup training accident in May
I go for Henri
Besson / Riou… Or Cammas !
Remember this is just nominations. Actual votes will be done in CSN FB in some weeks.
Easton/Burd: they have won everything in North America, top US team at 2012 Worlds, Nacra 17 campaigners, and just won the F18 Americas
Spithill/ Anslie and team USA of course.
Paul Larsen-destroyed the sail powered waters speed record, C class stalwart, multihull addict and genuine nice guy…..
Henri Demesmaeker !!
Henri of course!
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.
Henri!