A-Class Australian Nats 2018: Day 4 Results
Photo from Day 1 by Wangi Amateur Sailing Club. – Another three more races held today in perfect conditions as reported by Gavin Rietman/Forward WIP Australia. Check later FW Aus Fb page to watch another nice video at the gate.
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Glenn Ashby is getting in shape again after his Americas Cup dedicated sailing. Today 1,2 & 1 for him to grab the lead from Steve Brewin who sadly scored an ocs on the last race of the day, his other two scores were 3 & 1. Steve is 3pts behind but also has 5 bullets out of 9 races. Discarding a6th today would have leave him in the lead.
Another sailor who is getting his A-Cat skills back is Nathan Outteridge: 2, 3 & 2 for climbing to 3rd overall. Brayshaw discarded his ocs and now sits 4th overall. All top four riders with Exploder D3. Brad Collet in 5th place is first Dna F1 of the fleet.
Top ten results below, complete scoreboard here
Top ten results below, complete scoreboard here
| Place | Bow No | Sail No | Skipper | Sers Score | Race 9 | Race 8 | Race 7 | Race 6 | Race 5 | Race 4 | Race 3 | Race 2 | Race 1 |
| 1 | 1 | AUS111 | Glen Ashby | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | [3.0] | 2 |
| 2 | 4 | AUS4 | Steve Brewin | 16 | [52.0O] | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 11 | AUS11 | Nathan Outteridge | 34 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | [18.0] | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 25 | AUS25 | Stephen Brayshaw | 38 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | [52.0O] | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | 10 | AUS10 | Brad Collett | 43 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | [21.0] | 9 | 6 |
| 6 | 47 | NZL270 | Dave Shaw | 49 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | [9.0] | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 21 | AUS1035 | David Brewer | 49 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | [10.0] | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 41 | AUS41 | Matt Homan | 54 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | [12.0] | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 34 | AUS998 | Zac Heuchmer | 83 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 10 | [23.0] | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 14 | AUS14 | Adam Beattie | 88 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 52.0C | [52.0F] |
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