Australian Nats 2024, Open & Classics: Win for Beattie & Anderson
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2024 Australian A-Cat Final Results
Only one more race held today at Lake Macquarie for the 2024 Australian Nats. All was defined yesterday with Adam Beattie and Scott Anderson securing their respective Foil & Floating Titles beforehand.
Beattie scored 8 bullets out of 12 races, and 7 for Anderson. No further words are needed to describe their dominance.
Question now is if Beattie will attend next Worlds.
In the Classics Landy did not raced the last 3 races. In the Foiling fleet Bundy kept the habit of winning the last race of major events to secure another podium. +50yrs old by now for him fighting with the kids in the most hardcore sailing Class out there when the breeze is on, which is the current A-Cat Foiling mode specially upwind.
Equipment for the top 3 Open: D3 / Brewin DS. 4th place Matto Homan racing DNA F1x & Mischa DS. Anderson won on board a D3 / North DS.
2024 Worlds will be held September 7-14 at Punta Ala, Italy. Home of the historic 2015 Championship. Check schedule and registration at: www.aclassworlds.com/
Complete results here
Top Ten Open / Foil
| Pos | Sail No | Skipper | Nett | R12 | R11 | R10 | R9 | R8 | R7 | R6 | R5 | R4 | R3 | R2 | R1 |
| 1 | AUS14 | Adam Beattie | 12 | (3) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | (2) | 1 |
| 2 | USA76 | Ravi Parent | 19 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | (4) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | (5) |
| 3 | AUS88 | Darren Bundock | 28 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | (4) | 2 | 3 | (4) |
| 4 | AUS 41 | Matt Homan | 38 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | (5) | 3 | 4 | (21 DNF) | 2 |
| 5 | AUS4 | Steven Brewin | 43 | (21 DNC) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | (8) | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | AUS1087 | Stuart Scott | 68 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 11 | (12) | (21 DNF) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 |
| 7 | AUS10 | Brad Collett | 68 | 6 | 8 | (21 DNF) | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | (12) |
| 8 | AUS1065 | Jake Liddell | 74 | 8 | (10) | 7 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | (9) | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| 9 | AUS20 | David Brewer | 80 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | (21 DNF) | (21 DNF) | 11 | 8 |
| 10 | AUS7 | Hamish Sinclair | 100 | (21 DNF) | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 9 | (16) |
Top Ten Classics
| Pos | Sail No | Skipper | Nett | R12 | R11 | R10 | R9 | R8 | R7 | R6 | R5 | R4 | R3 | R2 | R1 |
| 1 | AUS31 | Scott Anderson | 13 | (28 DNC) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | (23) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | AUS965 | Richard Howells | 34 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | (10) | (8) | 2 |
| 3 | AUS90 | Bruce Woodward | 35 | 1 | (9) | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | (11) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | AUS958 | David Mckenzie | 50 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | (28 DNF) | (28 RET) | 3 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| 5 | AUS49 | Matt Johnson | 54 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 4 | (14) | 5 | (19) |
| 6 | AUS101 | Chris Cairns | 62 | 7 | 5 | 10 | (12) | 9 | (12) | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 5 |
| 7 | AUS308 | Andrew Landenberger | 70 | 28 DNC | (28 DNC) | (28 DNS) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | AUS99 | Mark Capel | 80 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 10 | (12) | 8 | 9 | 9 | (15) | 7 |
| 9 | AUS9 | John Dowling | 81 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 7 | (24) | 10 | 6 | (13) | 7 | 7 | 12 |
| 10 | AUS11 | Wayne Mercer | 85 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 4 | (13) | (14) |
To answer the question ‘will Beattie attend the next worlds’?
Answer: Only if he can find sponsors.
Well, we´ll try to get find him some support. Cheers