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2019 - Review of the year.

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 litera

GER Nacra 17 ace, Paul Kohlhoff, crowned GER 'A' Class National Champion at Garda.

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.

Reflections on the Worlds.

A couple of weeks on, the dust and smoke has settled and dispersed, the sailors will be resuming their lives, and may will be back at work, but possibly with a new image on their computer desktops, and a lucky few ones are still roaming the currently sunny British Isles as we speak.  So, this is a good time to reflect on what was witnessed on the waters of Britain’s Jurassic coast and at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Centre.