Veal tops leaderboard

After day one of the Moth Worlds in Melbourne

Race one of the 2005 Moth Worlds got underway after a bit of a wait in around 15 knots of breeze and challenging 1.5m waves. Some 50 boats representing many nations got away first time in perfect sailing conditions.

Rohan Veal of Australia led round the top mark, only to pitchpole impressively shortly after rounding! He got it upright quickly, maintaining his lead. Mark Robinson from Singapore was second round from Brits Simon Payne, and Adam May.

May got through into second on the first run, with Payne passing Robinson. These positions remained for a lap until May took the wrong route down a wave front and took a dive on the top reach allowing Payne through.

Payne went left on the last beat. Closing the gap on Veal. May held a comfortable third with Robinson under threat of loosing his fourth place to Les Thorpe.

Veal won race one with Payne in second. May brought it home a comfortable third. A good showing from the Brits on day one. Australian and new National Champion Les Thorpe passed Robinson on the last run to secure fourth place.

Race Results

Pos	Boat Name	Skipper	Elapsd	YS Cor d T	Score
1	OUTLAW	Rohan Veal	52:13:00	52:13:00	1
2	SHOULDER ANGEL	Simon Payne	54:43:00	54:43:00	2
3	MISTRESS	Adam May	57:55:00	57:55:00	3
4	SECTOR 7-G	Les Thorpe	01:04:28	01:04:28	4
5	ON THE RAZOR:S EDGE	Mark Robinson	01:05:25	01:05:25	5
6	BULLET WITH BUTTERFL	Ben Crocker	01:06:43	01:06:43	6
7	WINDRUSH	Brett Burvill	01:06:47	01:06:47	7
8	STRENGTH THROUGH WOU	Steve Ray	01:06:56	01:06:56	8
9	HOTBLACK DESIATO	Christopher Dey	01:06:58	01:06:58	9
10	ON THE PROWL	Garth Ilett	01:08:40	01:08:40	10
11	CAUGHT IN THE ACT	Doug Pybus	01:09:47	01:09:47	11
12	KARMA PACKAGE DEAL	Stephen Donovan	01:09:53	01:09:53	12
13	OBSTREPEROUS	Michael Boode	01:12:03	01:12:03	13
14	STATIC JAKEL	Andrew Sim	01:12:21	01:12:21	14
15	SAKURA	Yasuhiro Watanabe	01:12:25	01:12:25	15
16	SHENANIGANS	Andrew Stevenson	01:13:11	01:13:11	16
17	CITROEN	Yumiko Shige	01:16:14	01:16:14	17
18	LANTIS	Keiya Funahashi	01:18:37	01:18:37	18
19	MOTH	Andrew Sayle	01:19:10	01:19:10	19
20	PIMP JUICE	Aaron Gregory	01:19:15	01:19:15	20
21	SHORT BLACK	Luka Damic	01:19:20	01:19:20	21
22	HOLLYWOOD GOES TIGER	Peter Harney	01:19:25	01:19:25	22
23	SWEET CHEESUS	Glen Oldfield	01:19:30	01:19:30	23
24	ANGIALOFA	Greg Wise	01:19:35	01:19:35	24
25	DREADNOUGH	Ned Dally	01:19:40	01:19:40	25
26	RED CHERRY	Patrick Ruf	01:19:45	01:19:45	26
27	A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF	Craig Smith	01:19:50	01:19:50	27
28	BULLETPROOF	Burkhard Staabs	01:19:55	01:19:55	28
29	SMITH	Ian Sim	01:20:00	01:20:00	29
30	MEAT AXIOM	John Mcateer	01:20:05	01:20:05	30
31	LESS STRESS	Martin Harrison	01:20:10	01:20:10	31
32	SOLITARY LEPRECHAUN	Alan Goddard	01:20:15	01:20:15	32
33	FULL FRONTAL	Martin Johnson	01:20:20	01:20:20	33
34	LA VIE EN ROSE	Tutomu Tanaka	01:20:25	01:20:25	34
35	RACKING HELL LINES	James Mackenzie	01:20:30	01:20:30	35
36	STING	David Hansa	01:20:35	01:20:35	36
37	FATSO	Rainer Cuno	01:20:40	01:20:40	37
DNC	WEEKEND WARRIOR	Jens Schoenberg			48
DNC	BULLETPROOF	Simon Redford			48
DNF	TALKER	Jenny Muller			46
DNF	SLARTIBARTFAST	Lee-frances Gray			46
DNF	BLUE PRINT	Zac Douglas			46
DNF	WEEKEND WARRIOR	Jens Schoenberg			46
DNF	HAIR OF THE DOG	Samuel Neeft			46
DNF	ANYONE CAN BE IMMATU	Joachim Huelsmeyer			46
DNF	CHAINSAW	Philip Stevenson			46
DNF	FLYING LIME	John Ilett			46

Below: The man to beat...Rohan Veal