at the Persico Marine yard – ready to be used wholly or in part. At very short notice a complete new shed was assembled at Persico in which to carry out this unexpected rebuild. Persico’s existing factory was already rather busy with the final assembly of no fewer than three new TP52s, along with Andrea Mura’s new VPLP/Verdier-designed Imoca 60… plus advanced preparations to build a new AC62 for Luna Rossa. Busy indeed. Giuliano Luzzatto
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AUSTRALIA Burling the magnificent
The 2015 McDougall/McConaghy International Moth World Championship was always going to be huge. With much of the northern hemisphere locked in permafrost, the opportunity to head down under to shorts and sunblock lured the biggest Moth fleet to date and, with foiling camps now essential training for the America’s Cup, the worlds in Sorrento offered coaches and sailors the chance to race each other, view how the rest of the fleet is performing… and have some fun.
But, as any wise sailor will know, if you compete in any champion - ship in any part of the world, the phrase ‘It’s not normally like this’ is now the norm. High summer in Australia can throw complex curve balls from 40°+ days, followed by rain, hail and wind that would test the finest Gore-Tex, and so it was in Sorrento. With the foiling elite descending on the small town at the bottom of Melbourne’s Port Phillip bay, sailors from 16 countries were salivating at the prospect of good breeze, sunshine and flat water – but, with the Australian Championships cancelled just before the worlds because of no wind (how much breeze do Moths need to race...), the glass-off set the trend for a stop-start worlds. There were plenty of big names from the America’s Cup and past Moth maestros, but most eyes were on Nathan Outteridge, who clinched the world title at Hayling Island in 2014 ahead of Brit Chris Rashley and Australian Josh McKnight.
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Day one in Sorrento was all Outteridge. Admitting he had spent zero time in a Moth since his 2014 victory, he still posted two firsts and a fourth, surprising no one and suggesting that if conditions favoured him this could be back-to-back victories. Conditions, however, favoured nobody – particularly the race committee.
With a 6-10kt breeze race 1 went to plan, but in race two the pressure dropped to just over 2kt, meaning most of the fleet were struggling to foil. Following a delay a third race was underway in light and patchy conditions, but this was shortened to one lap and, once completed, race officials called it quits and sent the 160 competitors back to the beach.
Most of the sailors had trained hard for this event, and some not at all. Outteridge was short on prep time but the record must go to two-time world champion Rohan Veal, who had had no time in a Moth – or any dinghy – for two years. Arriving in Sorrento as a spectator, he was offered one of Andrew McDougall’s spare Mac 2s, hesitated for a second or two, stocked up on caffeine and Nurofen then accepted the challenge.
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With the breeze back in, day two was all action and with the sailors split into Blue and Yellow fleets, event leader Outteridge was offshore in Yellow with second-placed Peter Burling in Blue closer to the beach, the flatter conditions enabling the New Zealander to nail four straight wins, the last by over a lap, ‘Today was as good as it gets,’ conceded the Kiwi. ‘I put a lot of work into improving my game for this event. We were in more manage- able water than the Yellow fleet but even after I dropped off the foil at one stage and fell back to 11th, I still got back and won…’ Outteridge, meanwhile, had scored 1-3-2-2, dropping down to second. ‘I was OK for the first race today, but then the current changed, the last race especially was full-on, wind over tide, and I was just trying to keep up with the leaders. We all swam at some stage! But with the top four from the last worlds in the Yellow fleet it was never going to be easy.’
Day 3 saw the fleets split into Gold and Silver but with conditions again light and shifty. Only one Gold fleet race took place in a noreast breeze that faded to 2-3kt, giving the win to Japan’s Hiroki Goto, with Chris Draper second and Peter Burling grabbing
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