New Zealand’s Mattias Coutts extended his lead of the 2024 International Moth Worlds, despite having to count two discards in his penultimate day scoreline.
The opening day of gold fleet racing proved a stressful day for race leader Coutts, who missed the first race (R10) after he had to return to shore to repair his Moth after hitting something in the water on his way out.
Second placed Kiwi jacob Pye duly won the first race, but failed to take full advantage of Coutts’ problems, only managing a 5, 8 and a 16 (discarded) scoreline. While Coutts returned to the racecourse in time to win the second race (R11) take a ninth in the third and another win in the final race of the day.
This stunning recovery performance pulled his championship back on course with a ten point lead ahead of Pye.
Richard Didham of the USA takes third place, but only one point clear of Kiwi Seb Menzies as they battle for the final podium spot.
Hattie Rogers was the only Brit to make the gold fleet and leads the women’s division in 36th overall.
Jean-Baptiste Bernaz of France leads the Silver fleet, three points ahead of Keita Yukinori of Japan.
International Moth – PredictWind 2024 Oceania Championship
Leading scores after 9 Q and 4 Final races, 2 discard (73 entries)
1st NZL Mattias COUTTS – – (38) 1.0 (9.0) 1.0 – – 20 pts
2nd NZL Jacob PYE – – 1.0 5.0 8.0 (16.0) – – 30 pts
3rd USA Richard DIDHAM – – (38) 4.0 12 2.0 – – 46 pts
4th NZL Seb MENZIES – – 5.0 3.0 -14 4.0 – – 47 pts
5th NZL Jack BENNETT – – (16.0) 12.0 13 (15.0) – – 62 pts
6th MLT Richard SCHULTHEIS – – 2.0 (29.0) (29.0) 7.0 – – 62 pts
7th AUS Otto HENRY – – 12.0 (23.0) 2.0 13.0 – – 63 pts
8th NZL Sam STREET – – 9.0 7.0 -17 5.0 – – 66 pts
9th FRA Enzo BALANGER – – 3.0 18.0 19 (35.0) – – 69 pts
10th USA Ben ROSENBERG – – 7.0 (25.0) (23) 3.0 – – 70 pts
11th AUS Ryan LITTLECHILD – – (11.0) 6.0 3 6.0 – – 73 pts
12th AUS Jack FERGUSON – – 8.0 2.0 -16 -38 – – 75 pts
13th AUS Harry PRICE – – 13.0 (27.0) 5 (24.0) – – 83 pts
14th USA Harry MELGES – – 23.0 (35.0) 6 20.0 – – 89 pts
15th SUI Sebastien SCHNEITER – – 10.0 13.0 (31 )(18.0) – – 91 pts
GBR:
36th GBR Hattie ROGERS – – 27.0 (36.0) -37 19.0 – – 214 pts
