Impressive Midwinters win for Ben with 9 bullets out of nine races. The Class in the US continues to gather big numbers as shown at Isla Morada Worlds. Ben will be for sure a menace at the 2013 Europeans. No pics from the event available. Only report by Bob Hodges at Sailing Anarchy - Note that Bob says "Scheurer G6" but he is confused I guess, Ben will race the 'D3' at Barcelona. As informed weeks ago Andy Scheurer will continue to produce the Scheurer G6 (Landy's boat) and his son Dominik is building the 'D3'. Photo Kristofer West from Aarhus 2011.

Jakub Kopilowicz from Exploder just came back form Spain (Los Alcazares) were they spent 2 weeks testing their new 2013 model in 10 days of sailing. Good looks, curved board, step for trap a la Nikita plus T rudders fitted, more info from Jakub later. Teaser images attached. More pics at http://www.facebook.com/pages/eXploder/

The Italian Association Catamarans A class, is present at the” Big Blu - Boat Show and the Sea”, Italian Nautic exhibition in Rome, 17-24 of
February.
The Class exposes the inside of the stand of the Italian Sailing Federation (FIV)

Prolific times for the Class. I will try to get more info on the project for now some renders and preview, below translate from their description. As reported last week Winglets are now a production standard for new launchs.
"Addiction Catamarans wants to build a French Class A that could be able to win at international level.
The project was initiated by François Verdier, designed by Sam Manuard and built by Tocatek Balaruc, a small Boatyard specialized in carbon.
ADDICTION takes good use of the best resources of our region.