A-Class Spanish Nats 2016: Manuel Calavia Champ
All photos Gonzalo Redondo. — The Spanish A-Class Nationals held this weekend at Club Nautic Calafell , Tarragona. Excellent fleet of 26 boats and plenty of talented sailors like Anton Paz, Fernando Echavarri and many other local great sailors now also sailing A-Cats.
2015 Champ, Manuel Calavia (Exploder AD3/North) dominated the fleet with 5 bullets out of 9 races followed by Gustavo Doreste (Exploder A16) and Toni Ballester (Dna F1).
Micky Todd (Scheurer) finished 4th place.
Check Anton Paz (Pic #2) foiling upwind. Calavia reports he can get de AD3 foiling in around 5 knots and in 7knots he is full flying cruising mode. That is impressive and similar to what I witnsessed live at Punta Ala from Ashby & Mischa.
Manolo’s AD3 with cassette castings, used for T rudders. Calavia was 3rd at Punta Ala and many were hoping to see him racing at Medemblik but couldn´t attend on work compromises. His set for 2017 Worlds though, which will be held at Exploder’s own waters at Sopot.
Top 12 below (26 A-Cats racing), full results here.
| Pos | sail | Timonel | Tot | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 |
| 1 | ESP 11 | Manuel Calavia | 11 | 3 | x10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | x9 |
| 2 | ESP 1 | Gustavo Doreste | 31 | x10 | 7 | dns | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| 3 | ESP 75 | Toni Ballester | 32 | 7 | 2 | 3 | x10 | 4 | 6 | x9 | 9 | 1 |
| 4 | ESP 7 | Micky Todd | 33 | 1 | 6 | x10 | 3 | 9 | x10 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | ESP 84 | Santiago Nieto | 34 | x11 | 1 | 2 | x18 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| 6 | ESP 92 | Luis Martinez Doreste | 41 | 15 | dnf | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | dns |
| 7 | ESP 74 | Abdon Ibañez | 43 | x17 | 3 | 11 | x16 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| 8 | FRA7 | Jean Louis Le Coq | 47 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 10 | x15 | x16 | 5 | 10 |
| 9 | ESP 52 | Jose Antonio Lopez Becerra | 55 | x18 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 3 | x16 |
| 10 | ESP 32 | Anton Paz Blanco | 63 | x20 | 5 | 4 | x22 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 19 |
| 11 | ESP 100 | Kiko Espi Escriva | 65 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 8 | x19 | 16 | dns |
| 12 | ESP 8 | Fernando Echavarri | 68 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 8 | dns | 4 | 12 | x24 | 12 |
