United States A-Cat Association (USACA)

Notice of Race (pdf)

Map and directions to Bristol YC courtesy of Yahoo!

Note the "find on the map" tab with information on local hotels, restaurants, etc.

Here's the same map with local brewpubs highlighted (in case you want to arrive a few days early for "training").

September 11-15th, 2006

Bristol A-Class Catamaran Race Web Log

They're almost invisible:

This photo of the Emirates Team New Zealand boat made me do a double-take...for a second I thought I was looking at a giant A-Cat. Maybe that's the idea. Don't know if the rules have changed yet but I heard more downwind sail area is in the works.

Seems to me they could more easily solve their speed problems by adding a hull or two, not to mention that multi-hull wipeouts are far more interesting to spectators.


Check out the video of an ORMA 60 trimaran doing an end-o:

http://www.multicup60.eu/videos/618/Trophee-du-CG-des-Alpes-Maritimes-Debut-muscle.html



And then there was that Volvo Extreme 40 incident:

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/photos/06/0531/

A-Cats can do that and they don't even need a spinnaker.

Skipper and forever-optimist Smyth said: “In a way I am quite pleased that we cartwheeled the boat, because at least now we know how to recover from it!”