Tom Gruitt / www.yachtsandyachting.com

Mike Lennon claims Nationals

Only one race held in marginal foiling conditions at the UK Moth Nationals in Hayling

Thursday July 17th 2014, Author: Tom Gruitt, Location: United Kingdom

For the second and final day of the UK Moth Nationals, there was a postponement as the race committee waited for the wind to fill in and for the competitors to beat the flood tide coming into Chichester Harbour. Some helms chose to just lift their lightweight boats and walk along the beach rather than battle the tide. As it was, at the 11am scheduled start time, there was only around 3 knots of breeze so the AP was hoisted.

When the breeze did finally fill after midday, it was puffy 7-8 knots leading to marginal foiling conditions. In fact typically in both fleets only around 10% of the boats were able to foil and the difference between foiling and low-riding led to a massive range of course times.

Yellow course finished as usual at the finish line but the blue fleet had a shortened course due to the dropping wind.

Mike Lennon in the Yellow fleet put in another solid performance with a first placing him top of the leaderboard, two points ahead of Scott Babbage who had a second. The Blue fleet was won by Chris Rast, who after a 15th and a DNC yesterday showed a marked improvement.

After a short deliberation, the AP over A appeared and everyone slowly went home.

Jason Belben described the day: "The race today was pretty hard work - not physically, but mentally really because I was just trying to stay on the foils all the time because the pressure was so light.

"I came off the start line on the foils having circled one minute before on the foil. Unfortunately I hit some weed so came off the foil just after the start which was frustrating, but I managed to get back up again and round about 5th at the windward mark. I pretty much kept that position until the last beat when most people came off the foils when it became particularly light. Luckily I managed to pop it (get back foiling) just as I rounded the windward mark so I was one of the only ones apart from Mike (Lennon) who foiled downwind so I overtook them all on the last run but it was very hard work just keeping foiling all the time.”

Scott Babbage added: “It was definitely a marginal foiling day, so staying up was the top priority. A lot of boats started flying from the pin on port rather than risk the congested takeoff on starboard. However, the left hand side had more wind, so the port-tackers were not the first around the top mark.

"Staying left of the pack on the next downwind and upwind put me into the lead, which I unfortunately lost just before the line... a touchdown during a gybe cost me 100 metres or so and that was it.”

There is now a day off prior to the start of World Championship, which taked place over 19-25 July.

The International Moth class is hugely grateful to the companies that are helping make this championship possible; Magic Marine, LV, Lennon Sails, CST Composites, Ronstan and Blueteq.

 

Full results

 

Pos Nat Helm R1 R2 R3 Tot
1 GBR Michael Lennon 1 2 1 4
2 AUS Scott Babbage 3 1 2 6
3 GBR Chris Rashley 2 1 4 7
4 GBR Jason Belben 2 5 2 9
5 GBR Robert Greenhalgh 4 4 3 11
6 AUS Nathan Outteridge 3 3 8 14
7 GBR Ben Paton 4 4 7 15
8 AUS Josh Mcknight 1 2 13 16
9 GBR Dylan Fletcher 6 7 3 16
10 AUS Rob Gough 5 3 10 18
11 AUS Andrew McDougall 5 8 5 18
12 GBR Tom Offer 7 7 5 19
13 GBR Chris Draper 8 8 9 25
14 ITA Stefano Rizzi 11 6 9 26
15 GBR Ricky Tagg 14 9 7 30
16 JPN Hiroki Goto 16 11 4 31
17 GBR Oliver Holden 10 10 11 31
18 JPN Kohei Kajimoto 8 11 14 33
19 NZL Jason Russell 11 15 16 42
20 FRA Seb Col 13 16 13 42
21 GBR Daniel Henderson 14 20 12 46
22 SUI David Holenweg 23 13 17 53
23 GBR Dan Ward 21 13 20 54
24 GBR Simon Reynolds 15 18 21 54
25 GBR Paul Goodison 6 38 12 56
26 GBR Dan Vincent 23 10 23 56
27 FRA Yann Andrillon 17 21 19 57
28 GBR Richard Westbury 9 9 45 63
29 GER Sven Kloppenburg 33 14 17 64
30 GBR Tim Penfold 26 15 24 65
31 GBR James McMillan 24 16 26 66
32 AUS Brent Pearson 17 24 25 66
33 GBR Geoff Carveth 30 23 16 69
34 AUS Luke Molloy 22 20 27 69
35 GBR Andrew Friend 24 32 14 70
36 IRL Rory Fitzpatrick 18 21 31 70
37 GBR Matthew Lea 30 14 28 72
38 SUI Christopher Rast 15 59.0 DNC 1 75
39 GBR Rob Partridge 21 37 18 76
40 ITA Stefano Ferrighi 13 5 59.0 DNC 77
41 GBR Doug Pybus 12 59.0 DNC 6 77
42 GBR David Hivey 27 19 31 77
43 GBR Alex Koukourakis 22 31 24 77
44 GBR Neil Baker 25 18 36 79
45 GBR Stevie Morrison 39 19 22 80
46 AUS Phil Stevenson 25 35 20 80
47 NED Eelco Boers 9 59.0 DNC 15 83
48 GBR Phillippe Oligario 28 25 30 83
49 SUI Arnaud Psarofaghis 19 59.0 DNC 6 84
50 GBR John Clifton 19 28 37 84
51 GBR David Simmonds 31 22 32 85
52 GBR Graham Simmonds 28 26 33 87
53 RSA Jonathan Heathcote 12 59.0 BFD 18 89
54 GBR Matthew Stark 29 22 38 89
55 GBR Chris Jeeves 31 29 29 89
56 SWE Nils Akervall 20 59.0 DNC 11 90
57 ITA Marco Lanulfi 20 12 59.0 DNC 91
58 NED Constantijn Weber 34 32 26 92
59 GBR Leigh Albrecht 16 34 43 93
60 SUI Adriano Petrino 35 23 35 93
61 GBR James Phare 18 17 59.0 DNC 94
62 GBR Cameron Stewart 10 59.0 BFD 29 98
63 SUI Philippe Schiller 29 27 47 103
64 ITA Fabio Mazzetti 59.0 DNC 12 34 105
65 GER Burhard Staabs 38 27 40 105
66 IRL Annalise Murphy 36 24 46 106
67 GBR Thomas Lambert 34 34 39 107
68 GBR Katherine Knight 44 30 34 108
69 FRA Benoit Marie 27 59.0 DNC 23 109
70 JPN Wakako Tabata 38 40 33 111
71 GBR Matt Ponsford 59.0 DNC 25 28 112
72 SUI Caspar Buettner 36 36 41 113
73 GBR Guy Stewart Raynes 43 33 39 115
74 IRL Alistair Kissane 32 59.0 DNC 25 116
75 GBR Dominic Hutton 32 26 59.0 DNC 117
76 GBR Kyle Stoneham 26 33 59.0 DNC 118
77 POL Michal Domanski 59.0 DNC 30 32 121
78 USA Brad Funk 59.0 DNC 6 59.0 DNC 124
79 BEL Giovanni Galeotti 7 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 125
80 GBR Richard Edwards 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 8 126
81 GBR Diederik Bulters 39 28 59.0 DNC 126
82 AUS Will Logan 33 35 59.0 DNC 127
83 GBR Simon Hiscocks 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 10 128
84 GBR Steve McLean 42 31 59.0 DNC 132
85 GBR James Thomas 37 59.0 DNC 36 132
86 GBR Jeremy Hartley 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 15 133
87 SUI Jean-Pierre de Siebenthal 59.0 DNC 17 59.0 DNC 135
88 ITA Gian Maria Ferrighi 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 19 137
89 GBR Jamie Pearson 41 59.0 DNC 38 138
90 ESP Pablo Arandia 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 21 139
91 AUS John Genders 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 22 140
92 GBR Eddie Gatehouse 59.0 DNC 41 44 144
93 GBR Dan Ellis 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 27 145
94 NZL Glen Read 59.0 DNC 29 59.0 DNC 147
95 IRL John Chambers 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 30 148
96 GBR Matthew Bergmann Smith 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 35 153
97 GBR Miles Burrage 35 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 153
98 GBR James Sainsbury 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 37 155
99 GBR Dave Smithwhite 37 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 155
100 GBR Jamie Morgan 59.0 DNC 39 59.0 DNC 157
101 GBR Jon Bennett 40 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 158
102 IRL Ryan Seaton 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 42 160
103 GBR Jordan Woods 59.0 DNC 42 59.0 DNC 160
104 GBR Joseph Wellerd 59.0 DNC 43 59.0 DNC 161
105 GBR Ken Barker 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Nic Streatfeild 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Patrick Cunningham 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Paul Hayden 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Rob Cage 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 SUI Fabien Froesch 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 SUI Tristan Mathez-Loic 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 USA Zack Downing 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Ian Southworth 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Danny Clark 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 GBR Chris Grube 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177
105 BEL Quentin Blondiau 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 59.0 DNC 177

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