A-Class Worlds 2011: August 13-20 at Arhus, Denmark
Photo from German Nats 2009 at Lake Garda www.a-cat.info/
2011 Worlds will be raced this year at Kaløvig Sailing Centre, Arhus, Denmark .
I know Fischer will there racing his own design, the Exploder Mayfly and Landy will be riding a Scheurer.
Don´t have any news on the WingFox Nano.
Interesting to see the US task force with Hall (and his Baracuda), Strubble, Guck, Moon against the Euro and Aussie fleets.
Why I don´t get is why the A-Class events always program only 2 races per day…
More info and details on the official web www.a-catworlds2011.dk
Entry List
Hope they get wind, as last year it wasn´t good. Ashby is registered at least:
Entry List: www.dsystems.dk/DTilmeld3/event/deltager.php?id=94&class=44
For latest sail-mast development report check dnacat.blogspot.com
Schedule:
– Saturday 13/8 9.00-19.00 Registration and measurement
– Sunday 14/8 9.00-19.00 Registration and measurement
15.00 Warning Signal – practice race
– Monday 15/8 11.00 First Warning Signal
– Tuesday 16/8 11.00 First Warning Signal
– Wednesday 17/8 11.00 First Warning Signal
– Thursday 18/8 11.00 First Warning Signal
– Friday 19/8 11.00First Warning Signal
– Saturday 20/8 Reserve Day
I had the luck to qualify myself for the Euro 2009 held in Rohrspitz/Austria. I initialy had the same critic : why schedule only 2 races each day ? With a more aggressive program, we could be done in 5 days instead of 7…
The reasons are multiple : the beach is wide there and we could go out 4-6 boats at the same time. But even with these excellent watering conditions, it often took more than 1 hour to get all boats to the starting line. And then we sometimes had to wait for wind…
Being a very competitive class with amazing sailors like Ashby, Landy, Mitch Booth and all sorts of other extremely talented people, the A-class has the tendency to produce general recalls, which take forever to reorganize the fleet and redo a start while waiting for 100 cats to turn back, avoid collisions and line-up for the next start.
I'm not sure about it, but maybe our class rules specify a max of 2 races a day for these events.
Anyway, at the end of the week, we were happy to be able to complete the schedule on time and not race on the 2nd reserve day. I have the feeling that the organizers at Rohrspitz have done an excellent job, and I was happy with my experience there.
Regards,
Charles Bueche, SUI-223
I so wish I was going.
the foto was taken during the >2009< German Nats on lake Garda…
I've always understood that traditional worlds classes limit the number of races per day so that any mechanical failures do not impact too many races during the regatta.
2 races a day and 2 discards in the case that all 9 races are sailed. That means damage that would cost you a hole day of sailing won't destroy your chances of making a good result.
But neither would 3 races a day, 15 races and 3 discards…
Ashby isn't coming – too bad. Just confirmed yesterday.