Rohan Veal - Moth World and Open European Champion

by Rohan Veal on 30 Jun 2007 Report from Rohan Veal, 2007 Moth World and Open European Champion.

'So with eight wins straight in the bag, that is enough to win the series and the 2007 Moth World and Open European Championship for the second time.

So how does it feel? I don't know really. I am tired after four hours on the water today and six months of hard work and might take a while sink in. I really don't think I sailed that hard the entire regatta, but rather just went for a good VMG upwind and played it safe downwind.

Certainly sailing at Black Rock over the years helped as the waves here are very similar to back home. It is a huge relief however to not only win, but win every race again (including the practice races) but also extremely comfortably.

I am probably more happy for Scott (Babbage)to claim a very comfortable second overall in his first Moth Worlds (also not needing to sail tomorrow either). Not a bad effort for having only sailed the Bladerider for since April!

Third place however is still up for grabs with three British sailors Simon Payne, Sam Pascoe and Graham Vials, all seperated by two points with two drops and all will be in the hunt for the bronze medal.

Lastly it seems the Ashes trophy is still up for grabs, but hopefully with Scott's and my fairly neat score card, it should help the Aussies claim another win over the POMs.'

Overall leading results after eight races:

1 AUS 9357 ROHAN VEAL  BLACK ROCK Y.C. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7pts
2 AUS 9358 SCOTT BABBAGE  W.S.C. 3 2 2 5 2 2 2 2 15
3 GBR 4093 SAM PASCOE WEIR WOOD 7 3 5 2 7 8 5 4 33
4 GBR 4090 JASON BELBEN  STOKES BAY S.C. 9 16 10 7 4 7 8 8 53
5 AUS 9318 LES THORPE  BAYVIEW Y.R.A. 8 4 9 6 9 10 9 10 55
6 GBR 4098 ADAM MAY  W.P.S.A. 6 5 8 20 10 13 11 9 62
7 SIN 7 MARK ROBINSON  SINGAPORESAILING DNF 10 17 12 8 11 6 16 80
8 GBR 4076 SIMON PAYNE  Hayling Island S.C. DNF DNF 3 4 3 6 4 5 89
9 AUS 9361 TIM MAK  FREMANTLE S.C. 12 7 15 13 16 15 12 15 89
10 GBR 4089 VIALS GRAHAM  Derwent Reservoir S.C. 4 RAF 4 3 6 4 DNF 6 91
11 GBR 4095 IAN FORSDIKE  Grafham 18 12 12 15 14 14 10 14 91
12 AUS 9335 BEN CROCKER  BALMORAL SC 13 8 18 9 20 19 14 17 98
13 GER 1060 SVEN KLOPPENBURG  R.S.V. 15 17 13 22 13 16 15 13 102
14 AUS 9362 JOHN HARRIS  AUSTRALIAN 18 F.L. 5 DNF 7 10 5 9 DNF 7 107
15 AUS 9359 ANDREW MCDOUGALL  BLACK ROCK Y.C. 2 DNF DNF 8 26 3 3 3 109
16 AUS 9350 LUKA DAMIC  ST GEORGE S.C. DNF DNF 11 11 12 5 7 11 121
17 UAE 3127 GLENN RAPHAEL  Dubai Offshore 11 14 21 17 24 DNF 16 19 122
18 SUI 8 JEAN-PIERRE ZIEGERT  S.N.G. RAF 13 14 18 17 18 20 26 126
19 AUS 9340 JAMES ROBERT MACKENZIE  ST GEORGE S.C. 16 11 29 DNF 18 17 19 24 134
20 SUI 607 PATRICK RUF  Y.C. ARBON 17 15 26 21 23 22 24 21 143

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