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
Scotti used his Nikita
Teo di Battista , 3° of Classic using Exploder Ad3 2016 version instead Scheurer .
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.