Stellar Field at Australian ZHIK CST 2013 Moth Nationals + Video

Tue, 8 Jan 2013

2013 ZHIK CST Moth Australian Championships Day 1 - The ever consistent Scott Babbage leads a stellar field after the first three races of the Championships being sailed out of Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club on Lake Macquarie in the NSW Central Coast, have taken results of a second, a first and a third from the 66 boat fleet.

Back on the rigging lawn Babbage, who was second in the 2007, 2011 and 2012 Worlds, said ‘It was close racing. There were lots of gains and losses on the race track. In the race I won, I just managed to get a few more lifts on the last work and that made the difference.'

Olympic 49er Silver Medallist Peter Burling from New Zealand won the first race of the day followed that with a third and then a fifth to be second overall.

Dave Lister is third after a last race win. He was happy. ‘I was surprised with that last race win. I soaked down a bit lower than anyone else on the last run and that saved me a gybe. I got a bit lucky I think.’


Sailing at his home club, Olympic 49er Gold Medallist and 2011 Moth World Champion Nathan Outteridge is fourth, he commented ' I managed to avoid the lulls nicely but found many pieces of weed.'

He was ahead of Rob Gough and Joe Turner, and then comes Laser Olympic Gold Medalist Tom Slingsby, with another Olympic Gold medalist 49er crew Iain Jensen is eighth.

2012 World Champion Josh McKnight was well back at the end of the day; 24th in fact. Though he was smiling dockside after taking a second in the third race of the day.

‘I broke my wand in the first race, I was not doing that well anyway, the weed was screwing me up. When I learned to clear the weed I went a lot better.’

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Overall Results:

Series Results [One Design ET] up to Race 3
Place	Ties	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper	From	Sers Score	Bow No:	R3	R2	R1
1		2	7	Scott Babbage	Woollahra	6.0	2	3.0	1.0	2.0
2		3961	Oh Yeah	Pete Burling	Tanranga YC	9.0	10	5.0	3.0	1.0
3		3657	Manic 3	Dave Lister	ST George SC	14.0	57	1.0	2.0	11.0
4	5.0S	3997	G Had	Nathan Outteridge	WASC	17.0	4	4.0	5.0	8.0
5		3	Altitude	Rob Gough	RYCT	17.0	3	7.0	6.0	4.0
6		3678	Hayles	Joe Turner	Woollahra	20.0	14	6.0	9.0	5.0
7		3964	Johnny Drama	Tom Slingsby	Gosford SC	24.0	9	8.0	4.0	12.0
8		3951	Puddles	Iain Jensen	WASC	27.0	11	9.0	11.0	7.0
9		8	Tas 3	Julien Salter	RYCT	30.0	8	15.0	12.0	3.0
10		5	KA	Andrew McDougall	BRYC	36.0	5	13.0	13.0	10.0
11		3656	Scalpel	Luka Damic	ST George SC	38.0	56	12.0	8.0	18.0
12		3783	Peanuts Dream	Warren Sare	Woollahra	41.0	16	10.0	17.0	14.0
13		3717	Dripping Carbon	Jack Sherring	Southport	44.0	17	20.0	15.0	9.0
14	10.0S	3820	HS Plasterboard	Matt Crockett	B16's	48.0	44	18.0	10.0	20.0
15		3904	East Coast Marine	Scott Beeby	NCYC	48.0	18	11.0	14.0	23.0
16		3832	Stone Cutter	Les Thorpe	BYRA	50.0	32	14.0	21.0	15.0
17		3903	XTC	James Owen-Smith	Davey's Bay	60.0	43	19.0	28.0	13.0
18		3803	Kajimoto	Kohei Kajimoto	BRYC	62.0	15	22.0	19.0	21.0
19		3957	The Spruce Goose	Tom Johnson	RFBYC	63.0	67	23.0	Our advertisers are committed to our sport, please support them! (Graphics) Contact us , ph: +61 2 8006 1873, , fax: +61 2 8076 0459 or complete our feedback form. View our Privacy Policy. Photographs are copyright by law, if you wish to use a photograph from www.sail-world.com, please Contact us. [Go Home(Graphics)] Make sail-world.com Australia my default page.    Make sail-world.com Cruising International my default page.  Make sail-world.com Cruising Australia my default page.  Make sail-world.com Asia my default page.   Make sail-world.com New Zealand my default page.   Make sail-world.com UK my default page.   Make sail-world.com USA my default page.   Visit another region : Sail-World Australia    Sail-World Cruising International   Sail-World Cruising Australia   Sail-World Asia   Sail-World New Zealand   Sail-World UK   Sail-World USA   Navionics Australia Navionics is proud of its superb cartographic database comprising more than 25,000 charts and port plans; the largest privately owned database of its kind, the only one using full seamless technology [More info] http://www.navionics.com.au Performance Sailcraft Australia (Asia Pacific) Laser builder Performance Sailcraft Australia has taken on the successful RS Sailboat range from Britain, and is now licensed to build and distribute all of the RS range in the Asia Pacific region. [More info] http://www.lasersailing.com.au