2025 PredictWind A-Cat Worlds Day 4

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PredictWind A-Cat Worlds 2025 Day 4

Heavy day at Auckland. Friday saw +25 to 30knots reported, with both fleets holding tight to their lightweight overpowered A-Cat Platforms (+75kg total). Some even did upwinds no trapeze. Survival conditions.

When we describe the Foiling A-Cats as the epitome of sailing skills we are not even talking on days like these. A 18knots breeze foiling upwind will do trick for you, so enduring harsh +25 to 30 knots gusts and waves its beyond the scale.

Due to the lack of races completed the previous days, the RC forced a bit the day, in perspective its the only call you can do when you have risk of a non valid race title. Worlds Regattas need a min of races to be completed to define a World Champ. There enters the sailor’s decision to go out or not if conditions gets nasty.

I remember here in BA F18 Worlds 2016, we had a day of +30knots offshore where you capsized just going out if a strong gust entered inside the port bay, having a lent boat we decided not to go out, several masts broken that day.

Winds force at Auckland yesterday were beyond Class limits? Might be the case, but the impressive fact is how the fleets managed to survive the day, capsized & equipment breakage for some included of course.

The A-Cat 9mts mast allows to foil in about 6-7 knots, although at +15 you are already overpowered. 8mts mast were tested in the past in AUS & Europe with good performance, maybe its time to revisit that alternative that will bring better control in the blown out days.

Jakub Surowiec scored three bullets out of same numbers of races completed in the Open fleet and his mate Jacek Noetzel did the same in the Classics to sum up till now a perfect bullet display on the results table.

Both Polish riders racing their mate Jakub Kopylowicz Exploder D3s.

All images above by Gordon Upton more at his fb page here

Review Tracking replays at https://www.aclassworlds.com/tracking

Results for Classics & Open fleets. Official web