While I think you have come along side with me Terry, I think you have the wrong impression of Naviga.
Naviga are not really a club or a federation of clubs but an organisation of national federations, for example I Race to Naviga rules, but I am not a member of naviga and nor can I be, my club is Ostend Ospreys, but they are not Naviga members and nor can they be, I race in the Electra regional series but Electra are not members of Naviga and nor can they be, but they are affilated to the MPBA who are our national organisation and they are a Naviga affiliated federation every other year our nationals function as a qualifiers for the worlds, and the top 5 from each class can participate at the following years Naviga worlds, the same going for all the federations of the other member countries, ensuring that no one county can dominate through weight of numbers (unfortunatly Naviga no longer have a list of their member countries and federations on their website so I don't know if this is still the case but last time it was up NAMBA were the Americas affiliated federation).
Naviga do not run a series of races, they hold just 1 race (per section, they have sections for sail boats as mentioned above, static scale, RC Scale, RC IC and RC FE) every other year which is the "world championships" each section must have their event in a different country every time, While I have only recently had the disposable income to travel abroad to races so I have not seen it myself there has been at least 1 Naviga world championships in the western hemisphere and I believe NAMBA have had a team at 2 since I have been racing FE.
Every federation can propose to host the event, every federation gets a vote and Naviga only allow 1 federation per country to be affiliated to them so you cant be block voted out by any country, all decisions are truly international. I know you have several lakes with he facilities to hold a big race so there is no reason why you couldn't host a Naviga "world championships" in America. I have never been to the USofA and would quite like to combine a holiday there with some boat racing.
Paul Upton-Taylor, Greased Weasel Racing.
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