On Saturday, July 12, the FISLY-NALSA kicked off the 14th Landsailing World Championship with a ceremony at Smith Creek Playa near the town of Austin.
Pilots (sailors) representing 15 countries and four continents with over 200 land yachts will be traveled to Smith Creek via various modes of transportation.
Many international entrants traveled by airplane, then rented vehicles and drove to the playa and unpacked their land yachts from containers shipped weeks earlier from their respective countries.
The Frog Sails crew took a different approach. They shipped their famous team bus from Germany by ship, picked it up in Baltimore and headed west across the country to Smith Creek.
The regatta village was set up by a large cadre of volunteers. It was a massive effort to create the village and the regatta infrastructure in such a remote location, but everything came together.
More information is at: http://www.nalsa.org/Worlds2014Splash.html.
In a solemn and touching tribute, the Belgian Federation has dedicated its team's participation in this Landsailing World Championship to an American soldier from Nevada, Edward R. Smith, Private First Class, U.S. Army, who died in the "Great War" on Oct. 31, 1918, and is buried at Flanders Field American Cemetery in Waregem, Belgium.
The full text of this much-appreciated and very moving dedication, "The Man From Nevada" can be found as an attachment to this newsletter.
NALSA sincerely thanks its sponsors, including generous individuals and public and private entities, without whose financial and in-kind contributions the 14th Landsailing World Championship could not have been held.
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