With flying boats being a reality under current rules, more yards are pursuing to achieve this new mode.
Andy Scheurer from Scheurer Boot Werft AG has launched a new version of their A-Cat. Sandro Caviezel sent us this pic and video of their first session. More details will follow.
Contact Andy Scheurer at http://www.scheurerwerft.ch/

Hobie Alter made Catsailing and Racing more popular when he launched the Hobie 14 in the late 60s', followed by the H16 and others models, including the single handed Hobie 17, with a similar A-cat setup.
Many of us started sailing in his designs, still great feeder classes for high performance cats like the A-Class.

France is going to organize next Europeans in June 21-29 at Bordeaux. And the french fanatic multihull sailors have two local built A-Cat alternatives to chose from , the Addiction and the Askell. Thibault Laudren sails the latter and has sent a nice onboard video from a freeride at Quiberon.

Europeans 2014 will be held at the Cercle Voile de Bordeaux Carcans-Maubuisson. For the first time, some Argentine crews might be attending to an A-Class event. Notice of Race below, and attached.

Official Website: www.cerclevoilebordeaux.com
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At the WGM held 14th February 2014 at Takapuna NZ the following changes to Championship Rules, Constitution & Measurement Certificates were approved. Copies of all updated documents can be found on the IACA website under the IACA Menu (Championship Rules & Constitution) & A-Cat Menu (Calculation Forms & updated Measurers Guidelines)

Although the Class is already present in South America (Brazil for some time now), we didn´t had any A-Cat in Argentina, where a strong F18 has been developed since 2006. This F18 fleet is the only local Multihull racing Class and its members have put lots of hours and investment to get a renown fleet among a previously entire monohull sailing community , this work was crowned in 2013 with the confirmation of the 2016 F18 Worlds at Buenos Aires.

Letter by the IACA Committee--

There has been much written in the social media and numerous emails between interested parties since the WGM in New Zealand about the outcome of the Rule 8 vote and the future direction of the class. The IACA committee is elected by the members and hopefully acts in the best interest of the class.

The Class is experiencing some special breakthrough times. Last year we saw new equipment developments pushed by the ACup and previous attempts in the Class that aimed to get the boats airborne within current rules to reduce surface drag and get faster boats. At the 2013 Barcelona Europeans we saw a nice mix of weather conditions and this new setup didn´t demonstrated the superiority finally exposed at Takapuna Worlds. The results at the Worlds forced an overnight  seconds thoughts on foiling  not being an all mighty winning card in the A-Class.

We are preparing an interview with the Class President, Andrew Landenberger, to get an insight on the racing at Takapuna. Landy finished 4th at the end, sailing a standard floating mode A-Cat. He had a prvileged view and personal experience on the impact of the foiling As.

We will review performance & techncal aspects and which alternatives the Class has for the future, after what happened at last Worlds.

Annual General Meeting Official Minutes. Original formatted Doc file attached below.

AGENDA