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Lars Guck (Bristol, RI) convincingly won the 2009 A-Class Catamaran North American Championship held May 11-15 at the Fort Walton Yacht Club in Fort Walton Beach, FL. This win was Lars' fourth consecutive victory in this championship having won the 2006 event in Bristol, RI, the 2007 event in Galesville, MD, the 2008 event in Santa Cruz, CA, and this event in Fort Walton Beach. Lars won 8 of 11 races sailed in this event. The other race winners were first time A-Class racer Jim Leonard (Birmingham, AL) who won race 1, and Pease Glaser (Long Beach, CA) who won races 7 and 10. The remaining top five finishers in the event were Pete Melvin (Huntington Beach, CA) in 2nd, Matt Struble (Wixom, MI) in 3rd, Andrew Gaynor (Barrington, RI) in 4th, and Bob Hodges (Covington, LA) in 5th. The top master (50 and over) was Bob Hodges, the top Grand Master (60 and over) was Woody Cope (Tampa, Fl) who also finished 7th overall.

Hello A-Catters,

The sailing season for 2009 is here...even for those of us in the northern lattitudes!

There is a new calendar on the USACA site!  After evaluating multiple event/calendar solutions over the past year, I've chosen one and it is now fully functional on the site.  Going forward, all USACA national and regional events will be listed on this calendar.  Once an event has finished, it will continue to be listed and a "RESULTS" link will be added.  Past events will not be deleted from the calendar.  It will become the USACA's database of past events and results.  Over time, I will try to add older event results (from our old web-site).

As we ventured south down I-275 in Florida in search of mysterious city of Bokeelia, Florida, most of the twenty-five A Cat sailors did not know what to expect. Most of us had never sailed in these uncharted A Cat waters and none of us, besides our host, had sailed A Cats there. We knew that Ben Hall lived down H. Stringfellow Road but that's all we knew. We exited at Punta Gorda from I-275 and headed west toward the Gulf of Mexico.

For those who haven't seen it here are a couple photos of the new LR3 launched on April 4th. Air temp was 40 and water 42. Breeze at 12-20. Boat now at Lake Hartwell for Spring Fever.

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