Dutch Nats 2015. Second day of racing at Hellecat where five races were held in perfect 9-11knots. Mischa Heemskerk scored an impressive nr of bullets in same nr of races, five wins over Glenn Ashby who finished 2nd in each one.

Great performance by Mischa sailing his new sail/rig (check image below) setup that is also being used by Roland Wentholt & PJ Dwarshuis who also had good results today with more breeze. 

Light winds for the first day of the 2015 Dutch Nats. Jaap Straakenbroek won the forst one with standard C boards. Later racing was cancelled due to lack of wind until a 2 Bft breeze came in for Glenn Ashby to score a bullet ahead of Sjoerd Hoekstra.

Photo new sail from Mischa Heemskerk for PJ Dwarshuis.More pics at Dutch Assoc FB

Bonus track uncut footage from past North Americans 2015 held at St Andrews Bay Yacht Club, Panama City, FL. Matt Strubble & Bruce Mahoney (1st & 2nd overall) are featured in some great quality film reel shot by Nick Bowers & Kettle Cinema thanks to Panama City support and St Andrews BYC / US Association event organization.

The International A-Division Catamaran took over a-catmarket.eu a few months ago.

Unfortunately reality was that the site was relatively expensive to run and based on a system that no one was able to modify nor maintain.

So we have decided to shut it down an incorporate a similar feature on a-cat.org instead.

Visit the "Classified" section to learn more about it.

(Unfortunately we have not been able to transfer existing ads, sorry for the inconvenience for users who had ads on a-catmarket.eu)

All Images by Małgorzata Noetzel. Polish Nats 2015 report sent by Jacek Noetzel. -- The Polish fleet continues to put good numbers on their local regattas as the local sailors are looking forward to host the 2017 Worlds. Major event schedule up to 2019 can be found at http://www.a-cat.org/?q=content/worlds-venues-20162017-2018-2019-awarde…

2017 Polish bid available at http://www.a-cat.org/?q=node%2F519

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Open de France 2015 was held at St Pierre de Quiberon. The A Class participated within the C1 fleet. Jean  Darnaude won both overall and A-Cat division. In the As Jean was followed by Laurent Stephany and Emmanuel Dode. Below C1 Fleet results.

Open de France official website http://evenements.ffvoile.fr/opendefrance

German Championship 2015 at Lake Achensee - Report sent by Georg Reutter - 

"It was a good idea to have the German Championship in the Northern alps, one week after the Italian Championship at lake Garda. So People could have a round trip and there were 34 competitors from Poland, Switzerland, Denmark and Austria.

On the first day, there was only a light northerly and Bob, Thilo and Katrin could show their performance on C-board boats. A warning of incoming thunderstorms stopped the racing for the day.

Report sent by Pier Faccin / Italian Assoc. - July 6th, 2015 Porto Corsini - Italy: Teo Di Battista won the National A Class race organized by the Adriatic Wind Club held July 4th to 5th it was the fifth race of the National Calendar of A Cat Italy at Porto Corsini. All six races on the program were completed, thanks to a perfect weather. The only flaw was the intensity of the “scirocco” wind, which, despite the sea breeze regime, always blew below the standard. All the races were held in light winds with peaks of 4 m/ s.

Jan Groot , Chair of Dutch Association has prepared a document to introduce next Worlds to be held at Medemblik, Netherlands in June 2016.

For 2015 Worlds at Punta Ala we have a record number of +160 entries confirmed, and 4 Arg crews are being registered right now.  

Punta Ala Worlds official website: http://www.aclassworlds2015.it/

Current Entry List available  at http://www.aclassworlds2015.it/lista%20partecipanti.pdf

Report Sent by Pier Faccin & Italian Assoc //  Sulzano, June 21st, 2015 - Portrait: Giorgio Zuccoli - 

Swiss sailor  Sasha Wallmer wins the IX Trofeo Giorgio Zuccoli, organized by the Associazione Nautica Sebina Sailing Club