The 2010 Puma Interntational Moth World Championships are to be held in Dubai between the 8th -15th March.

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2009 UK Inland Championships 9/10th May. Queen Mary Sailing Club

Moth Inland National Championship Queen Mary SC.  A game of two halves – or Not ? 

May the 9^th and 10^th saw the Moth fleet travel to Queen Mary for the Inland National Championship. Not a great deal of wind was forecast .  

20 boats lined up with several new boats including 2 Mach 2’s, a Ninja and a Bladerider FX. Mike Lennon led at the first mark with Simon Payne second but being in a city meant the wind had to come round a lot of building and few trees making any position tenuous. Despite pulling out a reasonable lead Lennon was passed again and again by Payne, Mike Cooke and others before eventually pulling through to take the gun. 

Race two carried on in a similar vain with Payne taking an early lead only to have it snatched away before eventually retaking the lead before the bit that counts – The finish. 

Race 3 – More of the same really except by now the wind was failing with bigger holes and smaller gusts, giving the fleet the Moth sailors nightmare of sitting in a hole while half the fleet foils around you – It’s a bit like taxiing for take off while the everybody else is airborne. This race was a Payne Cooke shoot out with Cooke taking his new boat way out in front eventually leaving Payne to play with himself while Cook took Ninja close to lapping 3^rd place boat Adam May. The rest of the fleet was tightly packed with 3^rd place up for grabs and lots of pace changing. 

Race 4 – And some more of the same still, but getting worse, more holes than gusts and long periods of low riding ( taxiing rather than flying ).  Simon Payne took this race to give him a rather impressive 2,1,2,1 in very challenging conditions. Mike Cooke’s I,2,3 enough for second overall and Lennon took 3^rd with 1,3,3. Sunday’s 3 race schedule was cancelled due to not meeting the Moth class championship criteria of 5 Knots wind speed on the race area. Leaving Saturdays overnight standings as the final score.

Report courtesy of Mike Lennon

2009 Australian Natiional Championships

Two Mach 2’s will make their racing debut at the Australian Moth National Championships which will be held at Skandia Geelong week, Victoria on the 23rd-26th January 2009. These boats will be helmed by Andrew McDougall and Simon Payne.  

Andrew McDougal says “Our priority is to prove the boats are fast yet bullet proof. Our objective is to get through this regatta in one piece having shown our Australian audience what the boats are capable of.  The standard will be very high and it’s too early to talk about winning yet. That said of course, we both want to!”

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