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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

Yesterday, out on the bay, only a handful of sailors went out.  It was the ‘Usual Suspects’ of Kuba Surowiec, POL41, Jacek Noetzel, POL1, Michal Korneszczuk, POL111, Emmanuel Dode, FRA2 and Dave Shaw, NZL 270 who just can’t see a body of water without needing to be on it.    But now joined by Valdek Kwasniewski, POL 120, David Haylock NZL284 and Lamberto Cesari ITA13.  But they’d forgotten to book a suitable wind, so initially stooged about in sub minimal conditions of 3-4kts

Tuesday at the Milford Cruising club saw more sailors arriving and getting their boats set up.  Rolling about on the grass underneath them, occasionally emitting profanities so extreme that birds literally burst into flame mid flight, as they drop a split pin into their eyeball or discover that their take-away bungee comes from the wrong side of that rope. The lovely ladies in the club office discussed the numbers of pies they thought the sailors would eat in a day and how ma

Training starts out on the bay in some pretty rough seas. 11-13 kt brezes, but a 1m swell can be fun! https://www.aclassworlds.com/media-gallery

It’s that time again.  That time when the great and the good sailors of the World’s most elegant catamaran class come together to battle for their World Championships, as the A-Class Cats comes to town.  This year they are gathering at the sailing Mecca that is Auckland Harbour.  The Kiwis are a proud waterborne nation and their dominance of the sport over the years, results in many of their sailors being at the highest level.    The Class. We say ‘Championships’, because the

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