A-Cat NOOD Regatta St Petersburg 2021
All images Paul Todd / Outsideimages.com / NOOD Regatta / Sail World. Official event page sailingworld.com/helly-hansen-nood-regatta-st-petersburg. – The US A-Class fleet had a great regatta past weekend with 30 boats racing in the Foiling & Classic Divisions.
Future World Champ , Ravi Parent, dominated the local fleet with 8 bullets, followed by Bob Hodges with same nr of second places.
Ravi and Bob , both sailing a new Glaser DS. A great looking radial cut from the renown West Coast sail maker.
In the Classics division Woody Cope won , followed by two Multihull legends , Ben Hall and Randy Smyth. Randy’s son Matthew finished 7th in the Foiling division, on a custom A Cat platform he retrofit.
Next A-Class Worlds will be held in April 2022 also at St Petersburg. Worlds official web and aworlds.com
A Class Foiling
| 1 | USA 76 | Ravi Parent | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | USA 230 | Bob Hodges | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | DNF | 29 |
| 3 | USA 294 | Richard Stevens | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 37 |
| 4 | USA 9 | Jeff Brauch | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 43 |
| 5 | USA 349 | Daniel Segraves | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 43 |
| 6 | USA 113 | Matthew Keenan | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | DNF | 10 | 7 | 53 |
| 7 | USA 3 | Matthew Smyth | 5 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 55 |
| 8 | USA 426 | Cam Farrah | DNF | DNC | 9 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 70 |
| 9 | ISV 15 | Chris Batchelor | DNC | DNC | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | DNC | DNC | 73 |
| 10 | USA 143 | Mark Herendeen | DNC | DNC | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 87 |
A Class Classics
| 1 | USA 310 | Woody Cope | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| 2 | USA 99 | Ben Hall | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 23 |
| 3 | USA 303 | Randy Smyth | 13 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 46 |
| 4 | USA 73 | OH Rodgers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 7 | DNS | 50 |
| 5 | USA 165 | Bob Webbon | DNC | DNC | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 67 |
| 6 | USA 148 | Chris Bolton | 9 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 67 |
| 7 | NZL 268 | Andrew Burdett | 8 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 69 |
| 8 | USA 192 | Ken Marshack | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 14 | DNC | 4 | 7 | 72 |
| 9 | USA 232 | Bill Kast | 11 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 85 |
| 10 | USA 007 | Mike Krantz | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 25/DNF | 25/DNS | 90 |
