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The final day of any boat class Worlds can often an odd one. Sailors battle each other all week. Throughout that time, as in real battles, small skirmishes, pockets of unseen individual personal heroism and little victories happen all over the field, aside from the main strategic objective.  Nearly everyone is involved in some way or other.  And the final victory could range from an overwhelming and inexorable force, that was usually apparent from early on, to a touch and go,

Saturday dawned with the PredictWind forecast promising something exciting happening weatherwise. Megan, one of the PROs, just called them up to be told that a big front was coming across to the North and it could involve some quite extreme weather.  So, in the manner of a good PRO, she made her decision and duly called all the sailors together and told them that there would be a postponement of a few hours until this thing had cleared, as some nice sailing weather was follow

The second day of racing at the PredictWind A-Cat Worlds was keenly anticipated.  After all, the original second day had been scrubbed due to a rather brutal forecast, featuring high winds and stormy rains.  Hence, Thursday was the day for the Classics and Open fleet to get into action on the 2 fleet courses out on Castor Bay.   To be fair, our title sponsor, PredictWind, did have the wind going up and down all day, and rain showers.  The fleets set off from the beach at the

Today was the culmination of many months, possibly years of hard work by the Milford Cruising club, and the NZACCA’s David Haylock, in particular, as the 2025 PredictWind A-Cat Worlds finally got underway. It takes many meetings, zoom calls and liaising with many different bodies to actually pull it together.  Ask me how I know?!  But finally, all his sleepless nights, or 4am wakeups are all worth it and the Games have begun. PredictWind, the Kiwi founded ground breaking weat

The playing is over at the PredictWind A-Cat Worlds, and the race committees are tuned like fine violins.  The wonderful volunteer shore crews are poised like greyhounds in the slips, for it’s all stations to general quarters!, on Tuesday.  Then the next 6 days of racing will be full on action, with both Classic fleet and Open fleet doing what they are here for.  Finished are the leisurely Chicken Carbonara or steak lunches upstairs in the bar/restaurant of the wonderful Milt

The final playday before the racing events kick off on Castor Bay was a pleasant one for most.  @PredictWind had the winds pretty much spot on again with 6-8kts.  A few sustained puffs up to 11kts here and there, and a NNE direction, which is onshore here.  Out in their chosen training zone there developed the expected short chop as the wind over tide conditions pushed waves up to half a metre or so, but nothing they can’t handle.  There were many boats out by now, as all but