In just under 4 weeks’ time, many of the top A-Cat sailors in Europe, together with a few others from around the World, will assemble in Italy once again, this time for the European Championships at Riccione, just South of Rimini on the Adriatic coast. It will be an opportunity to continue those conversations and renew the class camaraderie forged back in September at the huge 2024 Worlds, when it was held over on the Western side of the Italian peninsula, at the Tuscan PuntaAla resort.

A disappointing lack of wind brought the Garda Spring Regatta to a premature end at the Univela.org club today, after only 4 races could be run in the series in rainy, shifty, rather 'unGardalike' conditions.

The European Championships NOR has been amended to extend the lower entry fee window until the 21st April 2025.

The entry for the Auckland Worlds is now open - HERE

The racing schedule and social event times have been published for the Riccione European Championships.

For entry list, see here https://151riccione.com/regate/european_a-cat/entry-list

The NZL A-Cat Association has published the NOR for the Worlds in November.

The Portsmouth Yardstick handicap rating for the Classic A-Cat, used in GBR handicap racing has just been changed. It has gone up by 11 to 695, with a corresponding adjustment in the SCHRS number. This will now mean that in mixed fleet racing, the A-Cat will now be much more competitive against other classes, giving it a rating pretty much the same as the Hurricane SX, and could gain the class a few more sailors who enjoy club racing but shied away from the class for that very reason.

The following changes to the NOR are as follows - 

- The point n. 3.1 of the original NoR is changed as follow. 

The new link for RRoS is https://www.racingrulesofsailing.org/documents/9427/event?name=2025%2520A-Class%2520European%2520Championship 

- 17.2 add: the European Championship title will be released to the first European competitor 

What to do if you get a boat, but have no National Association to organise you?  

Fox Friday Australian A-Cat championships, Lake Cootharaba Qld.