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Garda training weekend with Tymoteusz Bendik

'After the experience of last year we decided, with Tymoteusz Bendik, to run the training course again and I would like to invite you!' says Tristano Vacondio.

Tymoteusz will run 3 days training in Campione del Garda that will cover:

  • Boat handling - Upwind (upwind foiling depending on conditions)
  • Downwind foiling Optimizing boat settings
  • Rudder rake
  • Daggerboard rake
  • Mast rake and mast bend

Manoeuvres Tymoteusz will provide:

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2018 Review of the year.

As one continent’s season closes another one opens as ever, in our Worldwide ‘A’ Class family.  The AUS, NZL and ARG sailors are getting full into their seasons, whereas the USA and CAN migrate South for the winter, the European sailors all return to their caves, fortified with berries and nuts, wondering if their boats are thinking about them as much too, and awaiting the arrival of Spring when they can emerge, blinking into the sunlight again. 

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New DEN 'A' Cat event in May

New International A-Class Regatta from May 17th to 19th, 2019, “CPH MayDays” organised by the Royal Danish Yacht club in Rungsted, Denmark. The regatta will be together with 3rd 29er Euro cup,  but the A-Class fleet will have our own Race course.

The Notice of Race will be published soon as possible

We looking forward to see you in Copenhagen!

www.kdy.dk

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A reflection on the Worlds

A few weeks have now passed since we said au revoir to all the ‘A’ cat sailors who came from 3 continents, some travelling tens of thousands of kilometers to be here, and all have gone back, some to snow and ice, or freezing rain and political turmoil.   Now is a good time to reflect on what actually happened on the golden sun drenched beaches of the Fraser Coast.

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A-Class Speed Reading.

Excellent artical here from North Sails about Glenn Ashby's approach to sailing the A Cat and his sail designs.

https://northsails.com

A-CLASS SPEED READING

Training, Sail Design & “An Attitude Of Continued Learnings”

Glenn Ashby still remembers his first A Class catamaran sail like it was yesterday. “It was 1995 and it was only a 10-minute sail on a lake,” he says.

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AFCCA / Toulon (FRA) awarded the Worlds Championships in 2021

The AFCCA (French A-Cat Association) and Yacht Club de Toulon have submitted a bid to host the A-Cat Championships (open & classics) in Toulon (south France), in September 2021. The French candidature has been presented during the WGM in Hervey Bay, and has received a warm support from the presidents and representatives. After reviewing the bid, the IACA Committee - as for Championships Rule §1.1 - has awarded them the organization of the Worlds 2021.

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