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. 

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!



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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.

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.

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.

Sad loss of Corrado Sirri, ITA 

Stefano Sirri writes;  On December 1, 2018, Corrado Sirri left us. A quiet, calm day, of those that Corrado would never choose to take off. But this time the wind and the sea called it and couldn't say no. I hope he is heading towards a better world, towards what he has always loved and desired.

Here are the full results for the Worlds.

The sailherveybay.com.au website is being restored, however their techie doing it has been taken away to help with the bush fires currently raging North of Bunderberg.

We hope all are safe up there.

Full list of the Champions 2018

Classic Division;

Andrew Landenberger - Classic World Champion

Scott Anderson - Vice World Champion

Graeme Parker - Third

Alberto Farnassi - Forth

Bob Weddon - Fifth

Matt Johnson - Apprentice Master

Neil Caldwell - Grand Master

Andy Landnberger - Junior

Claire Neeskins - Womens Champion

‘The odd thing is, it’s not usually like this here...’ How often do you hear that at a regatta from the locals eh?  After losing two more days of sailing at the ‘A’ Cat Worlds in Hervey Bay on the lovely Fraser Coast, this time due to Northerly winds making it too unsafe to launch the rescue boats ect into the ‘Texel’ style breakers.  Even though they had officially got a championship after they had sailed 6 races for the series, the race committee, acknowledging the fact many had travelled tens of thousands of miles to be there, finally managed to get in three races mor