Dear global A-Class sailors,

As chair of the 2020 Worlds, I would like to personally invite you to participate in the best organized ACAT sailing regatta to date.

The North American A-Class fleet has been the fastest growing single hand sailing fleet in our continent, as we just held our most successful North American Championships to date, last October.

Introduction of the new definition of Classics for 2020

Click on the like to find the Worlds portal.  It contains the NOR, registration link, participents and much more.  https://yachtscoring.com

Registration is now open for the European Championships at Puerto Sherry, Cadiz ESP.  

http://regatas.clubnauticopuertosherry.com/en/default

Entry closes 20-6-20.

The Notice Of Race is here

As 2019 draws to a close, it’s usual that we reflect on our ‘A’ Cat year, and as we are spread globally, the end of one region’s season is usually the start of someone else’s.    As we all harness a particular metrological phenomenon, we cannot be blind to the fact that for many of us, the climate is in a state of flux and that appears to be frequently, in some regions, giving us more winds at either end of our class envelope rather than those winds nicely in the middle as we used to remember.  Regattas were blown off and other regattas were brought to a literal standstill.  And, at the tim

The World General Meeting minutes are available here.

This year the event-proven Circolo Vela Arco had been selected as the venue for German nationals at Lake Garda on October 3rd-6th.  Christian Schäfer reports. 

Although the boatpark chat was whispering of more mild breezes in autumn time, the Lake Garda wind machine was not shy in delivering the trademark conditions even at the end of the sailing season in the Northern hemisphere.

The great regatta in Campione was held to mark the end of summer on Lake Garda.  Paula Penco reports.  

Back for a third time, the A-Cat French Nationals will take place in Maubuisson from the 23rd to the 26th of October. In 2017, we had 49 competitors enter the event ; in 2018, 56 did, for the 2019 edition we expect over 60 competitors to meet in this exceptional sailing site with all it's logistic facilities.  Jean Darnaude reports.