After a series of consultations with the CC and Defender by the Regatta Director beginning last August, Tom Ehman confirms that the following format/schedule has been agreed and will be published shortly by ACM with dates as discussed at the Feb (San Francisco) meeting and previously distributed.

The six Acts this year are at three venues: Valencia (June), Malmo (Aug-Sep), and Trapani (Sep-Oct).

Each venue has two Acts with the same schedule: an Opening Ceremony (Wed), Match Racing the first six days (Thu through Tue), a Reserve Day (Wed), an Off Day (Thu), then three days of Fleet Racing (Fri-Sun).

Assuming nine or more teams, each Match Racing Act will consist of one round-robin. Depending upon the final number of teams there will be two races per day for at least the first two days of the Match Racing Acts to assure that each team races every other team once.

The Reserve Day will be used only if necessary to complete the Round. There will be no racing on the Off Day.

Regardless of the number of teams, each Fleet Racing Act will have five total races scheduled, two Friday, two Saturday and one Sunday; there is no Reserve Day at the end as a series will be "constituted" as long as at least one Fleet Race is completed.

There will be separate Notices of Races, Sailing Instructions, Skippers Meetings, and Prizegivings for each Act; and each is scored separately for the purposes of determining the ACC 2005 Champion and for collecting CSS Seeding Points.