EFG Moth Euro Cup 2014 - Swiss-British battle for the top

by Moth Euro Cup on 31 Aug 2014

EFG Moth Euro Cup 2014 Martina Orsini

The sailors were greeted with another picture perfect day of racing today, laced with some grey skies and some occasional rain. The PRO, Eiko Dietrich, together with his team, was able to get four races off with some gusty southerly breeze between 12-18 knots. Early on it was Ben Paton setting the pace after changing to his KA Sail and his small front horizontal. He clearly dominated the first race with another bullet and with the first discard kicking in he was now tied for first with Chris Rast.

The sailors were taking bigger risks and with the pin end being favorite there were a couple of close calls with port tackers making their way through all the star board tackers. After a couple of general recalls the black flag finally came up and everybody got off to a clean start. Again Ben Paton with some blistering speed was the guy to beat. Eventually Chris Rast was able to slip past him on the last upwind and take the win.

EFG Moth Euro Cup 2014 © Martina Orsini

In the meantime some good battles were taking place for third place between Andrew Friend, Dan Ward, Max Maege and Nils Akervall. All sailors had improved a lot after yesterday’s racing and many took advantage of the sailor’s debrief organized by the German Moth Class Association. The top sailors were happy to answer any questions in order to help everyone get around the course faster.

Going into the fourth and the last race of the day, Chris Rast had put another point between him and Ben Paton. With some match racing moves and another Black Flag start the pressure was on for both sailors to get this one right. Both ended up having a clean start and looking for the next puff. It was Dan Ward leading around the first mark with Chris Rast hot on his heels and Ben Paton working his way through the fleet after a bad tack cost him some valuable ground.

EFG Moth Euro Cup 2014 © Martina Orsini

In the meantime Chris put the afterburners on to take the lead by the bottom mark and never looked back. With some newly found speed he made the four-lap race work for him and won it with a handsome lead. With his fifth bullet in the regatta, it looks like he has wrapped up the regatta and will once again enjoy receiving the Euro 1000 prize money for first place, with one race to spare. Also Ben Paton is uncontested for his second place after nine races, as one more discard will kick in if the fleet gets another race in tomorrow.

Some more free drinks and a German Barbeque are on schedule for tonight and since the forecast for tomorrow doesn’t look that great we will see plenty of sailors enjoying the festivities.

Top five in the overall results:

1. Chris Rast, 11 pts
2. Ben Paton, 14 pts
3. Nils Akervall, 33 pts
4. Dan Ward, 39 pts
5. Andrew Friend, 42 pts

Overall Results
Overall Results
				Act 1 France		Act 2 Netherlands		Act 3 Austria		Act 4 Switzerland		Act 5 Germany			Act 6 Italy
	Sailor	Country	Club	Actual	Calc	Actual2	Calc2	Actual5	Calc6	Actual3	Calc3	Actual7	Calc8	Actual4		Calc4	Overall
1	Chris Rast	SUI	TYC/RCO/MBYC	1	100	7	80	1	100								280
2	Giovanni Galeotti	BEL	RYBC	3	88	4	90										178
3	Stefano Rizzi	ITA	SVOC			5	76	4	83								160
4	Carlo De Paoli	ITA	CV Torbole			9	73	2	94								168
5	Marco Lanulfi	ITA	YCA			12	63	3	89								152
6	Adriano Petrino	ITA	CVLL			17	47	5	78								124
7	Chris Rashley	GBR	Royal London YC			1	100										100
8	Ben Paton	GBR	Lymington Town SC			2	97										97
9	Benoit Marie	FRA	SNO Nantes	9	53	18	43										96
10	Pablo Arandja	ESP	Vela Valencia	2	94												94
11	Tom Offer	GBR	Rock SC			3	93										93
12	Rory Fitzpatrick	IRL				6	83										83
13	Andrillon Yann	FRA	ASN Quiberon	4	82												82
14	Mike Cooke	GBR				8	77										77
15	Mathieu Frei	FRA	SRC	5	76												76
16	Carlo Maege	GER	FSV			15	53	15	22								76
17	Maximilian Maege	GER	BYC			22	30	11	44								74
18	Philipe Kaesermann	SUI	SNG					6	72								72
19	Diego Botin	ESP		6	71												71
20	Eelco Boers	NED				10	70										70
21	Michael Schonleitner	AUT	UYCAS					7	67								67
22	Harald Steiner	GER	SVD			26	17	10	50								67
23	Nils Akervall	SWE				11	67										67
24	Sebastien Josse	FRA	Y.C.Monaco	7	65												65
25	Marcus Hirsch	AUT	SV Krumpendorf					8	61								61
26	Sven Kloppenburg	GER				13	60										60
27	Sebastien Col	FRA	YCPR	8	59												59
28	Kalle Coster	NED				14	57										57
29	Frederik Schmid	GER	LSC					9	56								56
30	Thomas Huber	GER				16	50										50
31	Ruiz Guillermo Gonzalez	ESP		10	47												47
32	Damien Le Houerou	FRA	ASN Quiberon	11	41												41
33	Stefen Gieser	GER				19	40										40
34	Maximilian Stelzl	AUT	UYCAS					12	39								39
35	Constantjn Weber	NED				20	37										37
36	Claire Gavignaux	FRA	ASN Quiberon	12	35												35
37	Ernst Hellriegel	GER	SVM/SCLW					13	33								33
38	Andreas John	NED				21	33										33
39	Eric Rotteleur	FRA	SN Sablais	13	29												29
40	Wolfgang Huber	GER	SCIA					14	28								28
41	Ole Frey	DEN				23	27										27
42	Frederic Poizivara	FRA	ASN Quiberon	14	24												24
43	Wibke Wriggers	GER				24	23										23
44	Chris Jeeves	NED				25	20										20
45	Fernando Lodos	FRA	CN Angoulins	15	18												18
46	Tamara Huber	GER	SCIA					16	17								17
47	James Phare	GBR				27	13										13
48	Francois De Scorraille	FRA	C.N. Castelnaudary	16	12												12
49	Caspar Buttner	SUI	Zurcher YC					17	11								11
50	Quintin Blondiau	BEL				28	10										10
51	Ben Koppelaar	NED				29	7										7
52	Brieg Thiery	FRA	USAM Voile	17	6												6
53	Yvo Durr	SUI	SCOW					18	6								6
54	Hans Rasmussen	DEN				30	3										3