A-Cat Dutch Open Nats 2022: Heemskerk 1st
2022 A-Cats Nats saw the return of Mischa Heemskerk to the Class. After bypassing the Worlds at Houston, Mischa won the local Netherlands main event but this time was not a total sweep of bullets. Mischa dominated but interesting to see Thijs Visser scoring 4 bullets and Rutger Krijger with several 2nds in the mix.
Classic “Discipline” … (we don’t want to disturb the nomenclature Police.. haha) for Caroline van Beelen, followed by Phippe Muyzers.
No racig pics available at the moment. Featured photo from 2021 regatta by Kees Krijger. Prize givinh shots by Dutch Assoc fb.
Mischa racing we assume F1x as Thijs, sadly DNA is not producing A-Cats nowadays, but plenty competitive platforms from them left.
Here in Arg we are going to upgrade a 2016 with latest Exploder mainfoils and T rudders. That’s the beauty of the last decade devel, where platforms remain capable. I sail an A15 with Z22 and I don’t feel any need to upgrade the platform.
Dutch Open A-Cat Top ten, complete results here
| Nr | Sail | Team | T | N | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 |
| 1 | NED 007 | Mischa HEEMSKERK | 17 | 12 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1 | -3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | NED 33 | Thijs VISSER | 76 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | -28 | -28 |
| 3 | NED 14 | Rutger KRIJGER | 37 | 25 | -5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -7 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | DEN 13 | Lars SCHRØDER | 77 | 41 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | -28 | 6 | -8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | NED 28 | Pieterjan DWARSHUIS | 67 | 51 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | -8 | -8 | 6 | 7 |
| 6 | CZE 1 | Vladislav PTASNIK | 77 | 52 | -14 | -11 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | NED 96 | Gert-Jan KOS | 96 | 64 | 6 | -19 | -13 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 8 | GER 85 | Guido SCHULTE | 94 | 76 | 7 | -9 | 5 | -9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| 9 | NED 111 | David van AART | ## | 87 | -18 | -21 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 |
| 10 | NED 41 | Caroline van BEELEN | ## | ## | 8 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 14 | -17 | 14 | 13 | -17 | 11 | 10 |
