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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Report by Guido Shulte - CLOSE RACING IN TOUGH CONDITIONS – WARNEMUENDE WEEK 2013
Germany’s beautiful seaside location Warnemuende on the open Baltic Sea saw fantastic conditions on the first day with 4-5 Bft and up to 1m waves, sunny and reasonable warm. 17 competitors from all Germany and Denmark came to the 3-day regatta with its nice white sandy beaches within the area of the intended Olympic resort Hohe Düne.

The British Association www.aclasscatamaran.co.uk , have put in their submission for the 2015 Worlds at Weymouth.
"The British ‘A’ Class Catamaran Association (BACCA) would like to invite the IACA to the
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Centre in 2015 and to hold the ‘A’ Class
Catamaran World Championships there from 20th – 27th September."

Attached you will find their full Presentation.

We contacted Steve Brewin, winner of the recent 2013 Barcelona Europeans for a Q&A on the event , the Class and his projects.
Steve Brewin grabbed the World title in 2011 at Aarhus, in 2012 6th at Garda Europeans and a 3rd at Florida special Worlds. A back injury in between and you are now dominating again winning the 2013 Europeans.

"The Australian Nationals are being held in Darwin, Northern Territory . Last time we were here was in 1968.
Joint leaders after 6 races with one drop are Dave Brewer and Jack Benson (after flying home from Europeans) with 3 wins and 2 seconds each.

Piet Saarberg was the only one writing reports form Barcelona this past week, so we really appreciate his time for us to have a daily view of what was going on at the 2013 Euros.
Report published in his Vision / Saarberg website: http://www.catamaranparts.nl/news/

As reported Brewin secured the title yesterday winning the 8th race, with a second discard in place with a ninth there were no chance for Lanbenberger or Calavia to reach him.

Andrew Landenberger won the final race today and defended his 2nd position. Manuel Calavia could finally discard his dns but a 10th in the final race put him in a really good 3rd overall considering he raced 6 "Finals" after scoring a bfd and a dns in the first 3 races, obtaining the European Crown as Brewin & Landenberger are from Australia.

Nice video from today by Panoramanautico.com with some mark roundings plus Steve Brewin words.

All images Cristayn Fletcher more at IACA's FB page https://www.facebook.com/pages/International-A-Division-Catamaran-Assoc…

On more race scheduled for tomorrow, so with provisional Results it seems Steve Brewin is new European Champ with one race to spare. Landy and Calavia will fight tomorrow for 2nd as Manuel will be able to discard with a ninth race his dns.

Full Results at http://www.vela.cat/bisc/ClassA/130625_clas_PROV_7i8.pdf