The Italian Championships, at the Adriatico Wind Club A.s.d., Porto Corsini (Ra)  25 – 28 August 2016 NOR has been published here

The NOR is published for the British A Class Nationals, August 26th to 29th 2016.

The first Dutch 'A' Cat open, since the Worlds, was a chance for friends to catch up and to put into practice what was learned at Medemblik.  Kees Krijger reports.

A-Catweekend at Sea – Vrouwenpolder – Catclub Zeeland.

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The 2016 AGM minutes are now here

Also, new IACA and technical committees.

The final day was scheduled for 4 races.  The Silver fleet, being unable to race the day before because of lack of wind, were the first off at about 10am.  The wind was a nice breeze of about 10-12 kts from the West.  Not particularly gusty or shifty.  The overcast sky looked like threatening rain, but on the Ijsselmeer that means nothing.  In the end, it didn’t rain as we did or didn’t expect it to. 

Mischa Heemskerk was crowned ‘A’ Class Catamaran World champion yesterday at Medemblik, Holland.  This is his second title after the 2013 title he won in near hurricane conditioned is Florida.  He takes over the title from Glenn Ashby who won last year in Italy.

‘I understand there may be a 180 degree wind shift at some point today, what sort of time do you think?’ was the question posed to the rib driver, an experienced local sailor.  He just looked at me for a while, ‘This is the Ijsselmeer’ he replied, ‘we have absolutely no idea!’  Such are the conditions of this Dutch lake, that it can sometimes produce it’s own weather that seems to defy the laws of metrology.  It can be raining hard all day on the shore, but lovely and sunny a mile out on the lake – and stay like that all day. 

Wednesday, was the same as Tuesday at the Medemblik Regatta Centre in Holland, except that the order was reversed, so it was stronger winds for the morning fleet, light wind for the afternoon races.  The pack was again shuffled randomly and the blue and yellow fleets where assembled with a different content to the day before.