A-Class Worlds - The Pot is Sweeter

Since the last update on this regatta, the depth of competition has gotten even deeper. Here are some new additions:

1. Randy Smyth will be sailing an LR2 with a new mainsail design.
2. Robbie Daniel will be looking to avenge his second place Trials finish against Charlie Ogeltree.
3. Mitch Booth has another passport and will be sailing as a Spaniard with a Dutch sail number!
4. Epic ocean sailor Cam Lewis will be joining us. At 6'3" and the frame to go with it, I would not line up to leeward of Cam on the starting line in anything over 10 knots.
5. Matt Struble decided to quit polishing his ice runners for a couple of weeks and the DN Iceboat World Champ will dust off his Flyer for some soft H20 racing.

The entry number is still at the maximum limit of 100 with a few still on the waiting list hoping for last minute cancellations. We have been contacted by lots of sailing magazines and websites wanting daily updates and our newest member Tom Siders has volunteered to handle that task. We have been contacted by a TV company that wants to film the event.

With four Olympic medalists, several world champions, and who knows how many national or continental champions in the fleet, this is shaping up to be THE MULTIHULL regatta of the year.

So why aren't the rest of you sailing A-Cats?

Bob Hodges
USACA President
USA 230

Because they cost too much.

and.....I love my spinnaker!

Yeah, did you read that list of people who are coming??? I don't like crying... and I think... I just might being DFL in a 100 boat fleet <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Here is a post from Italy:

The list of the approved entrants to the 2007 A-class WC is really impressive, no doubt the best ever with four past A class champions (Glenn Ashby, Scott Anderson, Pete Melvin and Mitch Booth, who comes back to sail a major A class event after 13 years). There are six Olympic medalists also competing (Randy Smyth, Jay and Pease Glaser, Charlie Ogletree, Andrew Landenberger and Goran Marstrom), a world known maxi-multihull skipper (Cam Lewis), an 18’ skiff WC (Howie Hamlin), the current DN Iceboat WC (Matt
Struble), a prominent AC yacht designer (Mike Drummond) and many more. Very seldom a sailing event has gathered such a various and qualified attendance. Equally impressive is the equipment roster which includes the first ever A- cat fitted with a solid wing sail, (Ben Hall’s project is
worth at least the same deal of attention paid to Rohan Veal’s flyng Moth), the radical platform designed by Richard Roake for Ian and John Lindhal with a new type of mainsail to be tailored for it by Randy Smyth, the evolution of the XJ done by Peter Cogan, the new Swedish state-of-the-art all carbon wonder (the Marstrom M5) together with the more or less older Flyer Mk1/Mk2, Bimare/VMI XJ, Tool, and of course the Melvin A2/A3 contingent.

Sail Fast, Sail Light.

"the new Swedish state-of-the-art all carbon wonder (the Marstrom M5)"

think that should be swiss, though there is a famous a-cat sailor called marstom too....

His name is Goran Marstrom, his company is Sailcenter of Sweden, and his A-Cats are very Swedish and very beautiful boats.

Bob, if the rest of us were sailing A cats, there wouldn't be enough room for all those late additions at the Worlds, since it is limited to a max of 100 boats. Are those late additions already -in- or are they on the waiting list?

Man, that's a lot of tallent! Should be quite a regatta, but with 100 boats on the line, how are they going to police the all important starts, to be sure the correct white hull gets called back for being over early? I hope you are going to be using a video system for help in the protest room!

my bad

The late additions we mentioned above are in and there are still a couple of folks waiting. We (USACA) are considering asking the international class to consider dropping the max entry rule and if we have to we will use split fleets or gate starts to manage the larger fleet size (like the Laser and 505 classes do respectively).

Regarding managing a 100 boat fleet, it's done often and there will be boats on either end to call OCS'ers. It won't be perfect but the RC team we have will make it as fair as possible.

It's going to be a great week of sailing!

yes it is!!!

Damn, damn, damn! You guys are killing me! So close, yet so far! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Bob, WOW! That's a true "world Class" event! I wish it was going to be televised!

An article about the races.

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So why aren't the rest of you sailing A-Cats?

Because they cost too much.

Re:And because there is a 100 boat limit at this regatta.




Sail Fast..../).../)....

100 boats is easy. Bow numbers and pin boats are very helpful. 450+ gets challenging... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just out of curiosity, who is the RC team for this event?

Mike

Billy Richnow is the P.R.O. - together with some of his usual team. I think he also has Betty Reeh helping him as well. With those guys involved it is going to run smoothly.

Chris.

A, Because I like flying a kite down hill !

Like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fzrvMW36cCM

PU will be there as the IRO course consultant and as an IJ. It can't be a worlds without an IRO. Billy's "only" a RRO.

Boats ready to race!
Number Name Country Sail Number

1 James Cole Australia AUS 904
2 Andrew Landenberger Australia aus 308
3 Amy Mercer Australia Aus 909
4 Wayne Mercer Australia Aus 900
5 Glenn Ashby Australia AUS 1
6 Ben Moon Australia AUS 918
7 scott anderson australia AUS 2
8 Graeme Harbour Australia AUS 8
9 Claudia Freitas Brazil BRA 3
10 Clinio Freitas Brazil BRA 7
11 Fred Eaton Canada CAN 29
12 Fred Smith Canada CAN 31
13 John Vincze Canada CAN 30
14 Donald Beike Germany GER 12
15 Hans Klok Holland NED 7
16 Yvonne Sheehan Ireland IRL 5
17 Stefano Sirri Italia ITA 7
18 Felice Cavagnera Italia ITA 1029
19 Antonino Agosta Italy ITA 85
20 EUGENIO CALABRIA ITALY ITA 2
21 Theo van Hilten Netherland NED 8
22 Pieter Saarberg Netherlands NED 1
23 Sjoerd Hoekstra Netherlands NED 3
24 murray philpott new zealand NZL 232
25 Mike Drummond New Zealand nzl 234
26 Mitch Booth Spain NED 11
27 Micky Todd Spain ESP 2007
28 Angel Fernandez SPAIN ESP 6
29 MARIANO MARTINEZ SPAIN ESP 42
30 Erik Andersson Sweden SWE 27
31 Göran Marström Sweden SWE 1
32 Thomas Persson SWEDEN SWE 956
33 Tomas Paulson Sweden SWE 23
34 Luc du Bois Switzerland SUI 202
35 Dieter Melcher Switzerland SUI 204
36 Jo Valente The netherlands NED 86
37 Andrew Kolb U.S.A USA 150
38 Ken Marshack United States USA 192
39 Bill Westland United States usa 241
40 andrew gaynor United States usa 234
41 Ian Lindahl US USA 9
42 Kirt Simmons US US 185
43 Jennifer Lindsay USA USA 147
44 Davi Ottenheimer USA USA 0
45 Charles Oberman USA USA 208
46 Gordon Isco USA USA 154
47 Mark Bellermann USA USA 134
48 Steve Clark USA USA 222
49 Matt McDonald USA USA 236
50 Bob Webbon USA USA 238
51 CLIVE MAYO USA USA 170
52 Peter H. Block USA USA 3065
53 Rush Bird USA USA 231
54 Philip Kinder USA USA 110
55 Pete Melvin USA USA 69
56 Mark Sellnau USA US 253
57 Randy Smyth USA USA 1000
58 Danny Goritski USA USA 211
59 Jeremy Laundergan USA USA 279
60 bill gillespie usa usa 0
61 Matt Struble USA USA 193
62 Cam Lewis USA USA 0
63 Ben Hall USA USA 99
64 Pease Glaser USA USA 240
65 Jay Glaser USA USA 180
66 Bob Hodges USA USA 230
67 Christopher Brown USA USA 193
68 Patrick Burger USA USA 243
69 Steven Levine USA USA 160
70 jonathan farrar usa usa 154
71 Mikel Gruber USA USA 209
72 Dennis Palin USA USA 169
73 Martin Hamilton USA US 237
74 Charlie Ogletree USA USA 269
75 Joe Leonard USA USA 201
76 James Godbey usa USA 200
77 ANDREW BURDETT USA USA 30
78 Peter Hefele USA USA 218
79 Mark Skeels USA USA 223
80 Peter Cogan USA USA 258
81 David Carlson USA USA 196
82 Bret Moss USA USA 255
83 Lars Guck usa usa 250
84 Tracy Oliver USA USA 135
85 woody cope usa usa 209
86 Howard Haines USA USA 186
87 Robert Daniel USA USA 0
88 Michael Egan USA USA 184
89 CARL SCHIEFER USA USA 121
90 Kevin Grice USA US 212
91 Skip Elliott USA USA 1
92 Bruce Edwards USA USA 244
93 Michael Krantz USA USA 216
94 Bernd Hefele USA USA 225
95 Chris Cordes USA USA 172
96 Chad Atkins usa USA 232
97 Larry Ferber USA USA 777
98 JOHN SCHIEFER USA USA 122
99 Edward Bourguignon USA USA 55
100 Howard Hamlin USA US 203

10 Clinio Freitas Brazil BRA 7

Clinio won an Olympic Medal (bronze, I believe) crewing Lars Grael's Tornado. I don't know how he is sailing nowadays, but certainly above average. I wonder if he is sailing the SambA Cat...

Hey Matt,

I'm sending you an email about this, hopefully you can clarify something for me.

Mike

PS: Apologies if this is a hijack. We're being trained to "always check the book." You had to be there to understand...

To continue the hijack (and to show how much freaking material we're covering to get our RRO and Judge certifications)

ISAF Regulations


Mike is correct. An IRO is not required. "Reserving the right to appoint" is not the same as "required."

However, an International Jury is required at a Worlds. PU is the Canadian on that Jury, and since he is an IRO, too - he will act as a course consultant.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled A-cat lovefest . . .

Aren't rules fun???

While not "rules", you all should see what ISAF has to say regarding black flags (Race Management Policies for ISAF Events). Here's a hint: If there's nothing wrong with the setup of the line, go immediately to black flag after first general recall. The RO really needs to have their stuff together!

That will help with a 100 boat line at your love fest! Hard core... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Mike