A-Class Wolds 2010: June 26-July 3

by Editor · Published June 22, 2010 · Updated May 24, 2019

Photo Megan Brewin: Ashby at NSW A-Class Championship
June 26-July 3 is too close to the F18 Worlds as many A-Class sailors are going to participate in Erquy too.
How hard is to coordinate a few days apart from each event for next editions????
Left Australian-New Zealand container at Cesanatico-
Congrega Velisti Cesanatico already organized ‘Vele di Pasqua’ event where the A-Class Euro fleet had a good prep regatta Bob Baier was 1st.
You can read a full insight and Worlds preview interview published days ago with Bob made by Rainer Bohrer here
Glenn Ashby will be defending his title, James Spithill is supposed to participate as he also will be racing with Glenn the F18 Worlds.
Steve Brewin has this same schedule (will race a C2 at Erquy) and he will be sailing the new DNA (as published by them) , Landy will only race A-Class Worlds.
Manuel Calavia from Spain and Bob Baier (aka ‘The German Ace’ as he is also a Hang gliding champ) are serious contenderd too.
The class is having lots of developments with curved daggers, but Ashby was riding straight ones, lets see which will be the final tendency after this Worlds at Cesanatico , maybe the 100% of the fleet will adopt them definitely providing a platform for future flying A-Class designs.
Guru designer, Martin Fischer , already told us about his view on the future of beachcat racing: Flying boats… maybe we might have a preview next week (?)

In the Int A-Class website was reported that a South American championship was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil with Argentine boats… no A-Class in Argentina right now, so it was more like a Brazilian championship, the class there is going strong, they don´t have F18 yet as we don´t have A-Class.

With the F18 class experience I had here and with current local F18 fleet status, I think is there´s no need to build a local boat as I did before to promote the a new cat class, but someone will have to import one to show the rest this state of the Art racing class. I still want to build a new F18 before that too, but be sure that we will have an A fleet in the future.