For the Foiling Week 2014 a spectacular sunny day highlighted the colors of Lake Garda and a timely Ora wind guaranteed three races of the Moth Class Italian Open Championship 2014.

A perfect Ora – the typical afternoon breeze – around 15 knots, without the excesses of the first day (28 knots of wind with gusts over 30), allowed the 34 mothies to race in the best of conditions.

The Foiling Week 2014 -  The Foiling Week

This 'small world championship' - so called for the number of sailors who came from eight different countries - has at the top of the rankings three remarkable names: the two Australians sailors Josh McKnight (1-1-4-1-1-2), moth world champion in 2012, and Rob Gough (3-4-1-2-3-1), always in the top ten world ranking list, and the Virgin Islands's sailor Anthony Kotoun (2-2-2 -6-2-4), who won the American title this year.

The Foiling Week 2014 -  Martina Orsini

At the moment, the first italian sailor is the well-known Stefano Rizzi (7-5-6-5-5-11), who can count victories in the Melges 24 class, America's Cup, ocean races and more. In the provisional ranking list, he is the sixth, followed by Fabio Mazzetti (12-11-9-8-13-15) in tenth and by Harald Stuffer (10-15-14-9-10-16) in eleventh.

At the end of the races, when the mothies were coming back to the land, a GC32 closed a perfectly beautiful day, sailing in front of the Circolo Vela Torbole.

The Foiling Week 2014 -  Martina Orsini

Moth National Open results after 6 races

 

Moth National Open results after six races

Pos.	Sail nr.	Name, Club	Points	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6
1	AUS 4142	Mac Knight Josh, RPAYC	6	1	1	-4	1	1	2
2	AUS 6	Gough Rob, RYCT	10	3	-4	1	2	3	1
3	ISV 4022	Kotoun Anthony, Maschio, Sail Newport	12	2	2	2	-6	2	4
4	GBR 4	Paton Ben, YC Lymington	18	-6	3	5	3	4	3
5	GBR 4038	Offer Tom, Rock SC	23	5	-8	3	4	6	5
6	ITA 4093	Rizzi Stefano, SVOC	28	7	5	6	5	5	-11
7	AUS 3900	Mc Dougall Andrew, Black Rock YL	43	4	9	(dns)	10	14	6
8	GBR 3985	Hiscocks Simon, WPNSA	43	8	7	8	(ocs)	7	13
9	SUI 4112	Rast Chritopher, TYC/RCO/MBYC	44	-19	6	7	12	9	10
10	ITA 3855	Mazzetti Fabio, CV ARCO	53	12	11	9	8	13	-15
11	ITA 4108	Stuffer Harald, AVLC	58	10	15	14	9	10	-16
12	SUI 3626	Reneker Matthias, RCO	64	13	14	-17	16	12	9
13	ITA 4092	De Paoli Carlo, CV TORBOLE	65	14	-18	11	17	11	12
14	ITA 4030	Lanulfi Marco, YC Acquafresca	77	11	(dns)	dns	7	15	8
15	FRA 3879	Blanc Pierre, C. VAR MER	77	17	12	13	18	-20	17
16	SUI 4032	De Siebenthal Jean Pierre, SN GENEVE	80	15	-24	20	19	19	7
17	ITA 3912	Dubbini Leonardo, SC GARDA SALO'	85	18	10	-26	11	26	20
18	ITA 3901	Stuffer Peter, AVLC	87	16	20	-21	21	16	14
19	GER 3389	Huber Thomas, SVBb	91	27	17	10	15	22	(dns)
20	SUI 3858	Schneiter Sebastian, SNG	93	-25	25	12	20	18	18
21	GER 3843	Maege Carlo	97	24	19	15	14	-25	25
22	ITA 4027	Ziliani Mario, ANS	98	21	16	22	-23	17	22
23	ITA 3887	Gritti Matteo, AVAS	99	22	13	-24	24	21	19
24	ITA 41	Ferrighi Stefano, FV Riva	102	9	(dns)	dns	13	8	dns
25	FRA 11	Col Sebastian, YCPR	115	-26	23	16	26	24	26
26	ITA 3949	Monzini Michele, CFV Skiffsailing Dongo	115	-31	22	18	27	27	21
27	SUI 3836	Petrino Adriano, CVLL	116	23	21	25	(dns)	23	24
28	FRA 3875	Marie Benoit, SNO NANTES	125	20	28	19	22	(dns)	dns
29	AUT 3435	Schoenleitner Michael, UYCAs	130	28	26	(dns)	25	28	23
30	AUT 3219	Stelzl Maximilian, UYCAs	135	-32	27	23	28	30	27
31	GER 3986	Thias Michael, WSGR	155	30	(dnf)	dns	30	31	28
32	ITA 855	Conti Davide Lupo, Skiff Sailing	159	(dns)	dns	dns	29	29	29
33	ITA 3392	Rizzotti Luca, Skiffsailing	166	29	29	(dns)	dns	dns	dns
34	ITA 4138	Ferrighi Gian Maria, FV Riva	180	(dnf)	dns	dns	dns	dns	dns
34	GER 398	Gimpl Klaus, SC Altensee	180	(dns)	dns	dns	dns	dns	dns

by Domenico Boffi