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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

Our headline sponsor at the PredictWind A-Cat Worlds 2025 had got it pretty much bang on in Thursday’s forecast.  A nice 12-13 kts NNE out on Castor Bay and slowly falling throughout the afternoon.  But, the wind over tide again created a chop on the water much larger than the wind deserved, and half meter short frequency waves made for lumpy riding out to the middle of the bay in a RIB with a fat bloke on board plus his 12kg of kit. But this was the area favoured by the sail