United States A-Cat Association (USACA)

Hey Gang, we had a pretty fine weekend at West River SC this past weekend. This was the first regatta of Division 2's world qualifying events and regatta One of the Atlantic coast Championship.



It was also a perfect tune up event for the Westfield Annapolis Mall A cat North American Championships . Frank Gibson PRO used the event to get familiar with the A class fleet and train his race committee for the upcoming National event.

A-Cat sailors traveled from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Virginia while the locals enjoyed the familiar territory of their home club.

14 A-Cats registered. Saturday was pretty light and really flukey. we sailed out in the middle of the bay-- a good 5 mile cruise. the first race had a pretty big course and with the flukey breeze it seemed everyone got a chance up front (and way, way back). the race committee (headed up by excellent PRO Frank Gibson) shortened the course and we got another race in.

The A's got 2 racing in on Saturday. it was pretty challenging towards the end of the last race of the day when the breeze did a real 180 degree shift. Peter Cogan from Connecticut was unstoppable w/ 2 1sts in the A fleet


We rolled back to the club for a few cold ones and some good eats.

Sunday dawned clear w/ some good breeze. Racing started promptly at 11 in 10-20 knots of breeze. Racer X, Mark Bellerman and Jim Godbey shared the firsts in the a-cat fleet.

there were some flips, 2 right at the finish line and one sailor swam across the finish line, w/o his boat! lots of chances to practice getting in and out of the wild thing and a couple of very lucky saves in quasi-pitchpole events!

we had one collision and Sterling Merhing came out on the short end--hope he gets it fixed soon.

apologies to Dave Mack for incomplete Saturday results.

We had a couple of new folks to our fleets and they were looking good--Chris Brown and Mark Schneider in the A's .



Regards [Tony Arends] Division 2 fleet



Division: A Cat/ Atlantic Coast Championship/ Spring Regatta (14 boats) (top)
Boats in Red are from division One and will not be scored in Division 2 World qualifing event scores.

Pos Sail   Boat   Skipper      1      2       3         4        5     Total  
1   200    Godbey, James      [5]     2       2         2        1      7.00   
2   134    Bellerman, Mark     2      5      [6]        1        2     10.00     
3   135    Oliver, Tracy       3      3      [7]        7        4     17.00
4   124    Ford, Chris         4      4      [5]        4        5     17.00
5   226    Arends, Tony   [15/DNS] 15/DNS     1         3        3     22.00
6   107    Fornaro, David     [8]     7       4         5        6     22.00
7   146    Schneider, Mark    [9]     9       3         6        7     25.00
8   258    Cogan, Peter        1      1   [15/DNS]   15/DNS   15/DNS   32.00
9   233    Mack               10    [13]      9         8        8     35.00
10  191    Faber, Mike         7      8       8     [15/DNS]  15/DNS   38.00
11  108    Orr, Bob          [12]    10      10         9        9     38.00
12  193    Brown, Chris        6      6   [15/DNS]   15/DNS   15/DNS   42.00
13  159    Durritt, Ken       11     11   [15/DNS]   15/DNS   15/DNS   52.00
14  179    Mehrling, Sterling 13     12   [15/DNS]   15/DNS   15/DNS   55.00