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Groundhog Day for Dylan Fletcher at Moth Nationals

Groundhog Day for Dylan Fletcher at the International Moth UK National Championship at WPNSA on Tuesday.

Mirroring his opening day, a second place and back to back wins, Fletcher stretches his lead to nine points after six races completed.

Brad Funk moves into second place after winning the first race of the day and then adding a 4 and 2 for a 15-point total.

Into third place comes Chris Draper with an excellent 3, 2, 4 score line and 19 points overall.

The leading pack is staying fairly exclusive, with Alex Adams (4,5,3) now fourth after adding a third-place finish in the final race, and Ross Harvey (6,6,8) gains a place, now fifth with 25 points overall.

Eddie Birdle (5,3,6) gains three places, now in sixth with Simon Hiscocks (7,14,9) seventh.

But, where there are gainers their have to losers and dropping down the leader board from second to ninth was Stu Bithell (12,19,18).

Racing continues through to Friday 15 September with nine races to go and the unanimous verdict amongst the sailors is that it’s great to be back out racing.

With the coronavirus pandemic resurfacing in some areas of the UK again, they might just have found a window that is about to close again.

Wetsuit Outlet 2020 Int Moth UK National Championship – Day 2 – 6 races (70 entries)

1st 4635 Dylan Fletcher – – Rocket R2 – – 1 1 -2 2 1 1 – – 6 pts
2nd 6 Bradley Funk – – Exocet – – 2 -6 6 1 4 2 – – 15 pts
3rd 4718 Chris Draper – – Exocet – – 3 7 -11 3 2 4 – – 19 pts
4th 4546 Alex Adams – – Rocket SSD – – -9 4 4 4 5 3 – – 20 pts
5th 47 Ross Harvey – – Rocket R2 – – -15 2 3 6 6 8 – – 25 pts
6th 4721 Eddie Bridle – – Thinnair – – 10 -14 5 5 3 6 – – 29 pts
7th 4386 Simon Hiscocks – – Exopensive – – 4 3 7 7 -14 9 – – 30 pts
8th 4716 Stu Bithell – – Rocket R2 – – 7 5 1 12 -19 18 – – 43 pts
9th 4509 Jason Belben – – Exocet – – 12 -15 12 8 11 7 – – 50 pts
10th 4525 Ben Clegg – – Exocet – – (DNF) 11 19 9 9 5 – – 53 pts
11th 4637 Paul Gliddon – – Exocet – – 8 12 9 17 16 -25 – – 62 pts
12th 4749 Nic Asher – – Exocet – – -18 13 17 13 13 10 – – 66 pts
13th 4766 Mike Lennon – – Thinnair – – 17 -18 18 14 8 11 – – 68 pts
14th 4277 Rhos Hawes – – Exocet – – 11 -17 16 15 12 15 – – 69 pts
15th 4715 Billy Vennis-Ozanne – – R2 – – 5 (DNC) 14 10 23 20 – – 72 pts
16th 4676 Alistair Kissane – – Exocet – – 19 8 15 18 -22 12 – – 72 pts
17th 4780 James Phare – – Thinnair – – 13 16 10 16 20 -21 – – 75 pts
18th 4544 Matthew Lea – – Rocket SSD – – 14 9 13 -36 35 22 – – 93 pts
19th 4636 Dan Ward – – Exocet – – 27 38 -53 11 7 13 – – 96 pts
20th 4562 Craig Burlton – – – – -25 23 24 21 18 14 – – 100 pts
21st 4673 David Jessop – – Exocet – – 28 30 (DNC) 20 10 23 – – 111 pts