A-Cat North Americans 2019: Mischa Heemskerk 1st
Photos by St Petersburg YC. Early Start on the final day racing but only one race could be completed, six total for the 2018 A-Class North Americans. Jeremy Wilmot won the last race in a decent breeze while the title was decided with Mischa Heemskerk finishing second in the last race ahead of Bruce Mahoney.
It was then 11pts for first & second place and 12pts for third place overall, awarded to Jeremy Wilmot. Climate did not help during the week as a huge storm disrupted a bit conditions according to Bailey White. Still 6 races held, 3 in calm winds and the rest on mixed good conditions.
Mischa could pull the recovery trick once more, this time was not a fleet sweep though tying in points with Bruce who continues to push his level up every regatta. Both racing DNA F1x / Mischa Sails package, and Wilmot an Exploder D3/ North DS.
In the Classics Division there was also a tight fight for the first place with Bob Curry winning by 1pt over Bob Webbon. OH Rodgers third overall 3pts only behind second place.
Pity we don’t have much pics to identify equipment in the Classics, but info I have is that a video is coming by Nick Bowers.
Update: Classics equipment info provided by Bob Curry:
- 1. EVO (11 year old platform), Fiberfoam 14 non-tapered, Sail Technologies DS Sail. Nikita C daggerboards.
- 2. Nikita, F14, Mischa DS Sail.
- 3. Struble, F14, Glaser DS Sail.
- 4. Nikita, F14, Sail Technologies DS Sail.
- 5. DNA, Hall, Sail Technologies DS Sail.
- 6. Nikita, Hall, Sail Technologies DS Sail.
Top 6 all decksweeper sails. All 6 had rudder winglets/wings at bottom.
Final Results below.
Top Ten Foiler , complete results for both Divisions yachtscoring.com/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=9450
| Pos | Bow | Sail | Helm | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Disc | Tot |
| 1. | 52 | NED 207 | Mischa Heemskerk | 23 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | [23] | 11.0 |
| 2. | 31 | USA 311 | Bruce Mahoney | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | [5] | 11.0 |
| 3. | 63 | USA 88 | Jeremy Wilmot | 17 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | [17] | 12.0 |
| 4. | 69 | AUT 96 | Michael Modlhammer | 19 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | [19] | 18.0 |
| 5. | 14 | USA 230 | Bob Hodges | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | [13] | 27.0 |
| 6. | 4 | USA 400 | John Tomko | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 32/DNC | 6 | [32] | 34.0 |
| 7. | 55 | CAN 55 | Andrew Woods | 10 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 18 | [18] | 37.0 |
| 8. | 32 | USA 320 | Bailey White | 12 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 13 | [13] | 37.0 |
| 9. | 36 | USA 367 | Ian Storer | 6 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 8 | [14] | 44.0 |
| 10. | 18 | USA 180 | Robert Daniel | 3 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 7 | [15] | 47.0 |
Top Ten Classics:
| Pos | Bow | Sail | Helm | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Disc | Tot |
| 1. | 62 | USA 304 | Bob Curry | 1 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | [13] | 9.0 |
| 2. | 50 | USA 165 | Bob Webbon | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | [7] | 10.0 |
| 3. | 49 | USA 73 | OH Rodgers | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | [6] | 13.0 |
| 4. | 3 | USA 310 | Woody Cope | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | [7] | 22.0 |
| 5. | 19 | USA 193 | Christopher Brown | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 1 | [10] | 26.0 |
| 6. | 5 | USA 99 | Ben Hall | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 32/DNC | 5 | [32] | 27.0 |
| 7. | 8 | USA 80 | John Harper | 8 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 9 | [11] | 37.0 |
| 8. | 10 | USA 108 | Bobby Orr | 12 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 10 | [12] | 38.0 |
| 9. | 16 | USA 192 | Ken Marshack | 11 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 4 | [11] | 39.0 |
| 10. | 48 | USA 148 | Chris Bolton | 13 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 11 | [13] | 47.0 |
