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