Friday, October 26, 2007
Worlds Advertising/Promotion
The list of the approved entrants to the 2007 A-class WC is really impressive, no doubt the best ever with four past A class Champion (Glenn Ashby, Scott Anderson, Pete Melvin and Mitch Booth, who comes back to sail a major A class event after 13 years), six Olympic medalists (Randy Smyth, Jay and Pease Glaser, Charlie Ogletree, Andrew Landenberger and Goran Marstrom), a world known maxi-multihull skipper (Cam Lewis), a 18' skiff WC (Howie Hamlin), the current DN WC (Matt Struble), a prominent yacht designer (Mike Drummond) etc.
Very seldom a sailing event has gathered such a various and qualified attendance.
Equally impressive is the boats' roster which includes the first ever A-cat fitted with a wing sail, (according to me Ben Hall's project is worth at least the same deal of attention paid to Rohan Veal's flying Moth), the radical platform designed by Richard Roake for Ian and John Lindhal, (I read rumours about a new type of mainsail to be tailored for it by Randy Smyth), the evolutionary boat developed by Peter Cogan, the new Swedish state-of-the-art wonder (the Marstrom M5) together with the more or less old Flyer Mk2, Bimare/VMI XJ, Tools...
-- Maurizio Giuggioli
Very seldom a sailing event has gathered such a various and qualified attendance.
Equally impressive is the boats' roster which includes the first ever A-cat fitted with a wing sail, (according to me Ben Hall's project is worth at least the same deal of attention paid to Rohan Veal's flying Moth), the radical platform designed by Richard Roake for Ian and John Lindhal, (I read rumours about a new type of mainsail to be tailored for it by Randy Smyth), the evolutionary boat developed by Peter Cogan, the new Swedish state-of-the-art wonder (the Marstrom M5) together with the more or less old Flyer Mk2, Bimare/VMI XJ, Tools...
-- Maurizio Giuggioli
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Long Beach A-Cat Helicopter Shots
Some of the best photos and video you can see of sailing is taken from a Helicopter. The Long Beach A-Class fleet was lucky enough to have that opportunity on September 9, 2007 when Howard Hamlin took out his helicopter and Jay Glaser from Glaser Sails took photos, Howard took video and Keith and Howard took turns flying. The catalyst for the photo shoot was to get some sail development photos, but Jay also took some "tour shots" since you don't get aerial photos of your boat every day (and he was using my Canon Rebel XT SLR camera :-)
Nacra A2 & A3 co-designers Pete Melvin of Morrelli & Melvin and Jeremy Laundergan of Askeland Engineering are both sailing Nacra A2s. Pease Glaser of Glaser Sails is sailing a new Nacra A3. All three are using Glaser Sails.
Video posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJHY1GvzQ8
Huge thanks to Howard, Keith and Jay!
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Jeremy Laundergan
Nacra A2 & A3 co-designers Pete Melvin of Morrelli & Melvin and Jeremy Laundergan of Askeland Engineering are both sailing Nacra A2s. Pease Glaser of Glaser Sails is sailing a new Nacra A3. All three are using Glaser Sails.
Video posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJHY1GvzQ8
Huge thanks to Howard, Keith and Jay!
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Jeremy Laundergan
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