Dear fellow sailors,
First of all I would like to thank Stefano Sirri for the years he has worked for the class and wish he, and his family well for the future. I am sure Stefano will continue to enjoy his sailing with the rest of us.

Secondly, I would like to congratulate Mischa Heemskerk on becoming the 2012 World Champion. It is to be hoped that after Mischa’s success more sailors from the F18 class will follow him into the A class.

We have created a new website and have transferred the content from the old. We hope the new site is easier to navigate, and we will work to get it filled with much more class relevant content in the future.

For the old page all the national associations had a log in, and they where responsible for adding content. That was a good idea, but unfortunately it has proven not to work, so in the new setup, we will have a webmaster who takes care of the more static content and regatta calendar and an editor who will take care of news and race reports.

The 2012 Worldchampionship A class in Islamorada Florida, USA is starting 19th of October with measurements
first racing is monday 21 st October
action can be followed at the Worldchampionship website :
http://www.aclassworldchampionshipsusa2012.com/
or
http://www.dnacat.blogspot.com

We had the "Open Danish Nationals" in the first weekend of September in Aarhus, just south of the 2011 worlds venue, at the "Aarhus sailing week".
Saturday we had 5 races in 10 to 15 knots of wind, and Thilo Keller of Germany was the fastest man on the race course, ending the day with a 4 point lead on he's Arrow over Thomas Pasch on a Nikita and Jørgen Skov Hansen on a DNA.
Sunday we had another 5 races in 15 to 20 knots, gusting up till the class limit.

20 A-Cats from Sweden and Denmark where entered for the 2012 Nordic Championships in
Borstahusen/Sweden, but unfortunately only 15 showed up. During the 3 days from the 17th to the 19th of august, 15 races where sail in light to moderate winds, and very sunny and warm weather.
The best Swedish sailor Pontus Johnsson missed out on the first day of sailing, making it
impossible for him to reach the podium. There was a close fight for the placed
2, 3 and 4, that first got decided in the last race.

Dear A-Cat Sailors,
From June 22nd to 29th, the Swiss A-cat Association (SACA) in collaboration with the Italian Sailing Club Circolo Vela Arco (ITA) organize the European Championships on Lake Garda, one of the most famous and beautiful sailing areas in Europe!
100 A-catamarans, 19 nations, with participations of European and World champions, but also Olympic and American Cup Sailors and Stars from AC45, Extreme-40 series, World Record holders, all at the same starting line at a sunny idyllic place with perfect wave and wind conditions !

The Aussie nats are firing up !
follow the action on the Sail-World newsfeed :

http://www.a-cat.org.au/2012-nationals/sail-world-newsfeed-for-the-2012…

Cool Pics, videos and other news : check the links on : http://dnacat.blogspot.com/

Glenn Ashby fires the warning cannon - from Sail-world.com-

In the weekend of the 24th and 25th of September, we had the Open Danish Nationals.
An efficient race management was able to start a total of 14 races. The short races where very intense and good starts and a minimum of mistakes was the key to success.

Top 3:
1. DEN 1, Thomas Paasch, Nikita, Fiberfoam, Ashby
2. SWE 16, Håkan Fråjdh, Marström, Marström, Landenberger
3. DEN 17, Michael Schwarz, DNA, Saarberg, Ashby

In August 2011, Sailing Aarhus hosted the World Championships for the A Cat class at the Kaløvig Sailing Center by the Bay of Aarhus. The class currently has an entry limit of 100 boats and all spots sold out well before the event. However, there were few no shows, so actually there were 96 boats on the water.