United States A-Class Catamaran Association

2008 NA Web-site is now available!

Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:32 USACA

A new web-site dedicated to the 2008 North American A-Class Championships is now available at:

http://www.acatnas.org

This site has a list of registrants, NOR and Entry forms, Lodging, Transportation information, and much more!

Registration is Open

NA Registration Reminder

Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:19 Andy Kolb

This is a reminder:

In just 1 more week the cost of registration for the 2008 A-Class Catamaran North American Championships, held in Santa Cruz, California increases. In just a little over a month registration and the event starts. Don't miss this sailing event in one of North America's premier sailing venues.

Please get your registration in so the fleet can finalize plans for this fantastic event.

Davi has promised a roster listing competitors will be posted shortly.

NOR and Entry at:

http://www.scyc.org/Racing/2008/09-sep.html

Find lodging and transportation information at:

http://acatamaran.blogspot.com/

See you in September.........................

Curved Blades at NAC

Wednesday, 23 July 2008 00:00 Bob Hodges

No doubt that many of you are reading with interest on blogs and the internet about the emergence of the curved daggerboards at the recent European championship. Specifically the reports are that top German sailor Bob Baier was quicker than most around the race course on a new Nils Bunkenberg designed Nikita with curved daggerboards that met the requirements of the current daggerboard extension and retraction limitations that were put into effect in April 2006. These limitations do not specifically limit curved blades.

One of the big problems with this rule is the definition of what is a hydrofoil. There are some who want to define a hydrofoil as a foil capable of lifting the boat (think Moth). But don’t our current daggerboards also meet that definition since they are in water and producing lift? Hence one debatable issue that the IACA technical committee could not solve. About the only objective rule they could define was they did not want any foil system that could physically lift the boat clear of the water (again think Moth and the image of the 2007 Canadian C-Class catamaran with lifting foils).

2008 North American Championships

Friday, 30 November 2007 00:00 Davi

Just a quick announcement:

International A-Class Catamaran
2008 North American Championships

The Santa Cruz fleet is proud to announce the 2008 North Americans will be hosted by the Santa Cruz Yacht Club (SCYC) from Sunday, September 27th to Friday, October 3rd, 2008 in Santa Cruz, California.

The Regatta will be sailed in the open waters of Monterey Bay, south of the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor.

NORTH AMERICANS - Santa Cruz, Class Meeting Topics

Friday, 23 May 2008 00:00 Bob Hodges

Folks,

Before this sneaks up on us, just a reminder that the 2008 NAC is coming up at the end of September in Santa Cruz and there will be a class meeting. Topics will be as follows:

Reply from US Sailing

Sunday, 15 June 2008 00:00 Jim Capron

Dear Mr. Hodges,

After the November vote at the ISAF meeting, I received many angry complaints from multihull sailors from around the world. I responded to quite a few of those complaints, and went on to explain US SAILING's position in some of the sailing newsletters and bulletin boards. Many contributors to those bulletin boards quoted my replies.

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