One to go
Final day for the Moth Worlds tomorrow.
Today was a better day than yesterday, though that’s not too hard.
The boat stayed in 1 piece, so that was a win in my book.
It started out pretty poorly though. I struggled around and then dropped the main at the top mark and dipped a wing, then stuffed the first gybe on the z course to let another bunch through. Then I started to work through the boats and ended up crossing the line in 9th behind Rohan. Not so great.
The next race was better. Arnaud launched again and took a good lead. I battled it out, rounding the top mark in 2nd I think before Simon mowed me down downwind. I hung in there upwind, but Dalton went through and Bora was right behind for the run to the finish (never a good spot to have him). But for probably the first time in the regatta I held my own downwind, and even passed Dalton. But only just. We were smoking into the finish line, me on port, and Bora and Dalton on starboard. I crossed just ahead of Bora, and just behind Dalton with all of us traveling at over 20 knots. Then I crossed the line a couple of seconds ahead. So a 3rd place.
The next race was more of the same, everyone was getting tired through. Nathan fell out of the boat in a tack near the top mark, and I snuck around close behind in 2nd. I took some distance out of him downwind, but blew out the bottom mark rounding and let him through again. Even though they say it’s Bora in this video trailing Nathan up the shore, it was actually me. Anyway, I went closer to shore and then put plenty of distance on Nathan going higher and faster. Bora crossed ahead then behind upwind, but I stuffed the last tack and struggled to foil again in a lull across the spacer mark. Bora came through underneath and by the time I was back up to speed he’d put 200m on me. Damn.
But again I put distance on Nathan downwind and took 2nd place.
So a 9, 3, 2 for the day puts me up only 1 place, into 8th, tied with Rob and 1 point behind Brad.
Rohan is 26 points ahead, so the best chance for tomorrow is 7th. Two races to go so we’ll just see what happens.
