Photos: Sarah Rollinson

Payne - the class act

After a second tricky day on the water at the UK Moth Nationals

Friday July 9th 2010, Author: Helen Rollinson, Location: United Kingdom

A glorious day in Torquay today - blue skies and a nice 12-15 knot breeze built late morning for day two of the UK Moth Nationals, being hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club. Race 3 got away with a few a little too eager, including Si Payne who had to go back. He recovered well though, to follow Mikis Psarafaghis round the first leeward gate. By the end of race 3 the World Champ was leading, followed by Mike Lennon and Mikis P in third.

Race 4 saw the wind playing games with a few dead patches, but this presented no problems to Mr Consistant Payne who came home first again, followed by Mike Lennon, Ricky Tagg and Jason Russell.

Race 5 and the breeze was up, a 20 degree wind shift just before the start gun made for an entertaining start with a bit of a pile up and quite a few pushed out. Clear air seemed to help the most with those out to each side doing well. At the second windward Arnaud Psarofaghis had pulled out a good lead, followed by Payne, Paul Hayden, Mike Lennon, Mike Cooke (back with a replacement mast after yesterday's breakage) and Alex Adams. Next lap round and Arnaud P had extended his lead, with Payne still second and Mike Lennon third. With the breeze up the race officer sent them round for a fourth lap, and at the finish line Arnaud P squeaked ahead of Payne with Mike Lennon third. Behind them there was a bit of position changing going on, but by the finish Richard Lovering was able to claim fourth with Paul Hayden fifth, Jason Russell sixth, Alex Adams seventh and Ricky Tagg eighth - he'll be kicking himself for dropping the mainsheet in the gybe on the last run letting Alex and Jason past.

Back ashore and everyone is looking a little tired, a few selected quotes: "Where's the masseur's?!", "I think it's past my bed time!". Those that aren't still bimbling have made it to the bar for happy hour for a well deserved drink.

Results:

 

Pos Helm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Tot
1 Simon Payne 1 3 1 1 2 5
2 Michael Lennon 3 4 2 2 3 10
3 Arnaud Psarofughis 2 2 43 6 1 11
4 Jason Belben 4 1 6 5 9 16
5 Ricky Tagg 5 5 9 3 8 21
6 Jason Russell 8 8 7 4 6 25
7 David Edwards 6 6 5 8 43 25
8 Richard Lovering 7 17 4 11 4 26
9 Mikis Psarofughis 9 7 3 43 11 30
10 James Phare 10 19 8 10 10 38
11 Tim Penfold 13 9 14 7 14 43
12 Paul Hayden 14 10 18 16 5 45
13 Alex Adams 11 43 11 18 7 47
14 Doug Pybus 43 12 12 15 16 55
15 Ben Paton 21 13 15 14 13 55
16 Paul Hignett 16 11 19 12 21 58
17 Jonnie Hutch 18 23 13 19 12 62
18 Tom Offer 23 24 10 13 19 65
19 Dougie Imrie 26 15 20 17 20 72
20 Peter Barton 15 16 31 20 25 76
21 Giovanni Galeotti 12 43 24 24 17 77
22 Sam Tozer 22 14 22 21 23 79
23 Rod Harris 17 30 26 23 15 81
24 Martin Fear 19 28 23 22 27 91
25 Jonathan Peats 27 31 21 25 22 95
26 Andrew Friend 25 27 28 26 18 96
27 Gareth Davies 20 20 17 43 43 100
28 Graham Simmonds 24 25 30 27 24 100
29 Phillippe Oligario 28 22 32 28 28 106
30 Oliver Vidal 43 43 16 9 43 111
31 Thomas Lambert 31 21 39 34 29 115
32 Chris Anstead 43 18 25 30 43 116
33 Daniel Hare 29 32 34 31 26 118
34 Alan Watson 36 26 29 29 43 120
35 Colin Newman 32 29 38 37 31 129
36 Jamie Hare 34 33 33 32 43 132
37 Tom Altman 30 34 37 38 32 133
38 Mike Owen 33 43 36 35 30 134
39 Katherine Knight 35 35 35 36 43 141
40 Simon Propper 43 43 27 33 43 146
41 Leo Carswell 43 43 43 43 43 172
41 Mike Cooke 43 43 43 43 43 172

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