"A great debut for Paradox in the hands of young Dave Parker who, despite being new to the boat and the venue, was giving the top guys a run for their money.
The main aim for us was to test the structure and systems of Paradox under race conditions.
We were closely monitoring the boat and foils to ensure all the loads are within design values and deflections are within predicted limits.

DNA has launched a new version of their daggerboards. A Class legal 'J' type board plus 'Landy' winglets are going to be offered for the 2013 Racing season. Along an upgrade kit for current DNAs, as the hull design has not been changed.

If you want to add the IACA calendar to the calendar app on your iPhone/iPad, here's a little guide:

2012 was a great season, with +100 boats at the class major events: Europeans & Worlds. The Class builders are doing an excellent job offering several platform alternatives for all budgets, including home mades, and complete production series boats for 16,000Euros. The Rule Box continues to work really well as proven over again in every event.
Beyond global economy the class and the sailors are working hard, +100 boats in Europe & America is a strong sign and this effort will be a great base for the future.

The Class continues to provide more alternatives and improved build development each year. Now Thilo Keller launchs the new Arrow MKII:
"New features
- Improved platform stiffness
- Slightly more volume for lightwind perfomance

The Arrow was always the stiffest boat available and now sets a new level. The boat is built in all carbon and hulls are built in honeycomb sandwich. It comes with approved boards and rudders.

Bimare has launched their new A-Class model for 2013. They are offering a complete boat for 15,800Euros. Bimare is also testing winglet rudders and a experimental new dagger. Check their site and blog for more info:
http://bimare.org/v1r.html
http://bimare.org/blog/

Piet has formalised the votes and France have come out a clear winner for the 2014 Europeans. Congratulations!
We look forward to a great event.

Kind regards,

Andrew Landenberger
IACA President

2012 A CLASS CATAMARAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – THE VIEW FROM ONE OF THOSE BACK IN THE FLEET.
The organisers of the 2012 World Titles did a superb job and need to be thoroughly praised, particularly considering “The Gods of the Elements “did their best did their best to rain on the parade, and blow the whole thing away.

On a-cat.org we have an international A-Cat event calendar, and it holds a couple of nice features.

First of all you can view all events in one place, making it a bit easier to plan your season. Just over the calendar you can pick which countries you want to show in the calendar (as default all are shown). Be aware that you can pick multiple countries, if you fore instance just want to show your own country and the once near by.

Andy Scheurer and Dominik Scheurer have release a clarification on the recent launch of the new D3 A-Class Dominik is working on.

Bottom line: Andy Scheurer G6 will continue production and Dominik with Gonzalo Redondo, head of D3, will launch a new different A-Cat, the D3. Left joint signed communication.