The 2015 North Americans will be held may 18-22 at St Andrews Bay Yacht Club, Panama City, Florida.
Last year the event was hosted by Sail North Carolina with 60 boats in the lineup. Additional containers from Europe have arrived since and we expect the US fleet to continue its solid growth and participation.

February 02 is Heinz Muller birthday. Great to see how many years you can have sailing the As, all my admiration and greetings to his 40yrs A-Cats calendars. Sent by Georg Reutter.
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"German A-Class Associaton Member Heinz Müller becomes 90 Years old. After sailing the A-Class more than 40 Years, he is still keen to get back on the water in spring.
On his home Lake near Biblis, he is still the man to beat on a his catamaran. The legend of his small "camping vehicle" in the size of a french car lives on.

2015 Worlds will be held at Punta Ala, Italy , September 5-12. The Italian Association has launched the official website: www.acatworlds2015.it

The US fleet had their annual winter event at Isla Morada. All Images by Emmanuel Cerf, (US Exploder importer), who took hundred pics from the regatta that can be found at USACA FB

USACA Report: "Congrats to Woody Cope and the always fast Nikita today in very light (some drifting, some trapezing) air, weed, and chop. No foiling was sustainable. The bumpy conditions also showed how good C board / winglet boats like the DNA and others".

Sent by Jacek Noetzel -- Find attached Polish Association original Bid doc.
Polish A-class Association and UKS NAVIGO Sailing Club on behalf of Polish Sailing Association,
would like to host A-class World Championships in Poland in 2017.
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The Club: UKS NAVIGO SAILING CLUB AND SAILING AREA
UKS NAVIGO Sailing Club is the biggest catamaran club in Poland. A-class
is most popular class. A-class sailors in Navigo: Marcin Badzio, Tymek
Bendyk, Jacek Noetzel, Jakub Kopyłowicz – Exploder constructor and
many others.

Full Results below and at http://results.lcsc.org.au/aclass/2015/SGrp2.htm
No pics available to publish. Watermark gallery by Julie Hartwig at http://www.juliehartwigphotography.ifp3.com/

Report from Day 3 by Bob Griffits.- Complete Results published in previous post: http://www.a-cat.org/?q=node/505
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"The three races of Day 3 were sailed in light and oscillating winds from the Southeast to East.
Racing was delayed for three hours to allow for sufficient wind to fill in to meet the minimal class requirements.

Images of Race 5 and Brayshaw pitch by Mark Dawson.- Wednesday was lay day for the 2015 Australian nats being held at Lake Cootharaba. On Day 3 Brad Collet continue to lead after 9 races, nr 7 was abandoned. Steven Brayshaw is 5pts behind for second place and Graeme Parker with a 26pts overall for 3rd.

Steve Brewin scored an OCS and lost the chance to climb to the top three as he already discaded a dnf in the 3rd race. He is currently 7th overall with 61pts and this individual race positions: 1,1,dnf,3,2,2,(ocs),1,1

Report by Bob Griffits. Results after 6 races http://results.lcsc.org.au/aclass/2015/SGrp2.htm
All Images © JULIE HARTWIG - http://www.juliehartwigphotography.ifp3.com
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Day 2: Australian A Class Catamaran Championships.