A-Class North Americans 2015, Day 1: Matt Struble leads
Practice Race Images by Walter Cooper / North Americans official web Acatnorthamericans.com. —
Matt Struble leads the 2015 North Americans at Panama City, FL with 3 bullet under his belt. Racing Ben Moon’s Ronstan Exploder, Matt has being able (after much work on the boat as I’ve been told) to grab the pace of a foiling A for the first time. But Matt knows 1 thing or two about racing & technical details, he is 2013 NA Champ sailing with his own built design.
Second place for 2014 North Americans Champ, Bruce Mahoney, with a DNA 2015 latest tech, Bruce scored three seconds behind Matt. Still much to go but Bailey White, Class president & currently in third place (3,3,4) and also with Exploder told me he was impressed on how Matt adapted to a new boat and foiling mode so fast , he is faster and pointing better foiling downwind than the rest of the fleet.
Top ten below. 40 boats fleet. Full results at NAs Official web Acatnorthamericans.com/results/
Rank | SailNo | Club | HelmName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
1st | 3 USA | Struble, Matt | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
2nd | 311 USA | Mahoney,Bruce | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | |
3rd | 320 USA | White, Bailey | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 10 | |
4th | 193 USA | Brown, Christopher | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 13 | |
5th | 135 USA | Oliver, Tracy | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 18 | |
6th | 192 USA | Intergalactic | Marshack, Ken | 9 | 8 | 11 | 28 | 28 |
7th | 99 USA | Hall, Ben | 13 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 30 | |
8th | 994 AUS | Pitt, Nigel | 11 | 15 | 6 | 32 | 32 | |
9th | 212 USA | Intergalactic | Grice, Kevin | 12 | 14 | 12 | 38 | 38 |
10th | 17 USA | Batchelor, Chris | 20 | 11 | 9 | 40 | 40 |
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16