Acton Belle Property International Moth Worlds 2026 at Mounts Bay Sailing Club - Day 5
by Sail-World.com and Down Under Sail 11 Nov 09:48 UTC
6-12 November 2026
After no racing was possible for the foilers on Tuesday at Mounts Bay Sailing Club on the Swan River, three very shifty races were held on Wednesday in a morning South Easterly breeze.
Surprisingly it held long enough to try to set up for a fourth race, but that was called off before they could get the course set.
While it wasn't defending champion Enzo Balanger's best day, recording a 13th, 1st and 4th, he holds a 16 point lead over closest rival Ryan Littlechild, who finished 4th, 6th and finished with a win in the final race of the day, which is race 10 of the series. Littlechild is still technically in the hunt for the title, it would require Balanger to have a shocker on the final day where up to four races are possible.
Ryan Littlechild said of the day, "Fairly shifty out there, but I think maybe I've clawed some points back on the leader and created some space behind me, so not a terrible day I guess. It's a tricky place to race in an easterly."
On the battle for the title Littlechild added, "If I'm going to have a shot at the title then at least I put some momentum in that direction. The more races we get the better for me, and I just need to keep pushing forward, not worrying about the people behind."
There's a red hot battle for the final spot on the podium with New Zealand's Jack Bennett fighting off the USA's Richard Didham, Australia's Jack Ferguson and Kiwi Tim Howse. Just six points separate this group, and the chasing pack are only a few points behind them overall so we're all set for an epic battle to conclude the event.
Jack Ferguson said after racing, "We've had a pretty mixed bag of conditions the whole way through the event, but today we had three races and a super shifty little south easterly. This morning we were out there early and it was quite hard to put together a low scoring day."
On his strategy for tomorrow Ferguson added, "It's not over till it's over and I'll keep fighting the whole way through. Just trust the results will come, do my best and we'll see what happens."
The fleet was sent home under AP over H in the hope they could run another race in the afternoon if the sea breeze came in, but in the end it didn't and at 4pm local time AP over A was displayed, allowing the fleet to pack up and rest ahead of the final day.
Hattie Rogers was back out on the water after her rudder horizontal delaminated and sheared off in the epic conditions on Sunday and leads the battle for the Women's title.
The forecast for Thursday is for a sea breeze, so we should be back to great racing conditions on the Swan.
In the lowriders Britain's Paul Hignett is counting straight first on the water, but under handicap he is tied on 16 points with John Hilton, so that title is set to go down to the wire.
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