150+ cats are due to attend the 34th Vele di Pasqua regatta to be held in Cesenatico (Italy) next weekend (March 22-24).
As usual the A class fleet is the largest with 52 entries so far from 7 different countries (Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and UK).
Among them Pribil M., Koch J. and Bechler H. from Austria, Pellissier S. from France, Field C. from England, Baier B., Reutter G., Raab K. Maier A. and Dietz M. from Germany, Saarberg P., Hoekstra S., Van Hilten T., Terra A., Dwaershuis PJ from the Netherlands and Tobler M. from Switzerland.
The Italian Valerio Petrucci, Michele Petrucci, Roberto Casadei, Teo di Battista, Paolo Penco, Graziano Tamburini, Vincenzo Sorrentino e Luigi Blancato will sail the new BIMARE V1, a boat which has still to show its qualities, but it is already a bestseller, with 11 boats delivered till now and a long list of orders to be satisfied.

I forgot to mention that Cesenatico is scheduled to host the 2010 A class Worlds.
I hope you'll enjoy the promo video for the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jmCH5kJnfk

Hi Catfan,

I guess this is the official webpage:
http://www.congregavelisti.it/home.html
Do you know which boats are sailing in the open 17' and 19' classes? Are you there?

Cheers,

Klaus

I'm not a Cesenatico, but in the 19' class the most are F18HTs.
Find attached the provisional results after 3 races: http://www.seipi.it/vdp_08/dva_fin_ass.htm

Two more races completed in strong conditions:
20 knots, big waves and rain
No result released so far.

No race in the last day.
Final results:
http://www.seipi.it/vdp_08/dva_fin_ass.htm