IACA's Gral Sec and long time sailor and builder, Piet Saarberg is leading Dutch Nationals after Day 1 with 35 boats including current World Champ Mischa Heemskerk. Piet is sailing his Vision / Saarberg combo.

Full resutls at http://www.hellecat.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ONK-A-cat-2013.htm

Matt Struble won his second NA Title - Press Release Alamitos Bay Yacht Club
Struble ices A-Cat NAs with two more wins
"On a day when others scrambled for respectable finishing positions, Matt Struble won his eighth and ninth of 10 races Friday to fly away with his second International A-Class Catamaran North American Championship in four years.

Another successful A-Class project was launched in France. The Addiction A-Cat is built by a group of dedicated sailors that wanted to provide the locals with a French built A. They already won their first event showing is possible to race competitively a great number of designs currently available, this is just great news for the Class.

Report sent by Thierry Boisbouvier - "Our A-Cat Addiction raced for first times with S daggerboard and T rudders against all the best French sailors and won it first event.

A new bid came in to compete with Weymouth & Sopot to host the 2015 Worlds.
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Dear sailors,

Italy asks also to organize the 2015 Worlds and propose a location in the bay of Punta Ala in Tuscany as an ideal place for a World Championship. You will find all details of this great place hereafter in the enclosed file. The idea was born in June when we did a Race of A Cat. I know personally the location and i sailed there many regattas and championships with great conditions as the termic wind durning summer are between 12 to 18 knots, so ideal for A-Cat.

by Kees Krijger
The Dutch A-Class Catamaran Association invites you to the Open Dutch Championships to be held at Hellevoetsluis on the 23rd, 24th & 25th of August.

The entry fee will be € 80.
Dutch sailors must have their membership paid to DACA.
Costs of membership € 30, ABN 5165 83 115

More information acat.daca @ gmail.com

Dear A cat sailors,

The Polish A-Class Association has submitted their bid to host the 2015 Worlds at Sopot on September 5-12.
The A-Class is the most popular catamaran class in Poland and they also have local sucessful builders like Exploder

Thilo Keller dominated the German Travemunde Week with 7 bullets out of 11 Races with his own design, the Arrow MKII. Second place for Mathias Dietz and third for John Holn. Results below & attached with detailed scoring.
All images courtesy of Jasper van Staveren from www.sailshoot.com . More images at IACA's FB.

Attached are the NOR and Entry Form for the 2014 worlds in Takapuna, New Zealand to be held Sunday 9th February to Sunday 16th February, 2014. Sailors should enter through their National Association before Oct 1st (similar to previous worlds), and then the National Associations will make one payment to NZ Assoc for all the sailors from their association.
Each sailor should send their entry and payment to their own national Association and not directly to us.

Piet Saarberg is a well known character within the A-Class community, being Gral Sec for several years, and still holding Chair. He also builds his own 'Saarberg' carbon masts and the Vision A-Cat.
After Barcelona Europeans we asked Piet about how the class current status and how it has managed to survive several big developments over the years.
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