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Andrew “Amac” McDougall’s nine point lead evaporated today in the difficult patchy Dubai breeze of the third day of the PUMA International Moth World Championship. The first race of the day, race five of the prestigious event, was a carbon copy of the final race yesterday, with US Laser sailor Brad Funk scoring a bullet. European Moth Champ Arnaud Psarofaghis (SUI) scored a second on the same race, and at the end of the day Psarofaghis moved into third place. “Today I lost a few positions I shouldn’t have, but overall I was going pretty fast in some difficult conditions,” the Swiss racer said. Simon Payne captured third in the race.

Seattle, USA skiff sailor Dalton Bergan pulled off the move of the regatta at the exciting start of race six, when he port-tacked the entire fleet – a sailor’s dream at a World Championship. The manuver payed off and guaranteed victory for Bergan. Australian Scott Babbage grabbed second place, with Funk again scoring big with a third. Payne continued his strong performance with a fourth and 2009 World Champ Bora Gulari rounded out the top five.

The last race of the day started in a lighter and dying breeze, with Psarofaghis edging out Brad Funk for the race win after Funk broke his boom vang. Funk also lost a sail control called a camber inducer, greatly reducing the power in his rig. The gear failure cost Brad one point, leaving his just two points from race leader Payne, whose consistency has proved his biggest advantage. “I was good but not great today, not quite as fast as yesterday just before I broke my mast, but then the conditions weren’t quite the same so you have to take that into account,” explained Payne.

Tomorrow is a lay day for the fleet.

Day Two of PUMA International Moth Worlds got to a late start as a foggy haze and light winds lead to a 30 minute postponement onshore. Today was really a pressure game- those who stayed in the pressure were able to get up on their foils and make gains. The fleet had three races today, bringing the total for the event up to four. Races two and three saw light winds and tough foiling conditions. The breeze filled in a bit for race four, allowing the fleet to really get up and moving. The leader board remains relativity unchanged, with Andrew “Amac” McDougall still in the number one spot. After day two, the top five are:

1. Andrew McDougall (AUS)
2. Michael Lennon (GBR)
3. Brad Funk (USA)
4. Scott Babbage (AUS)
5. Chris Graham (UAE)

PUMA and Sailing Anarchy’s On-The-Water Anarchy Highlights of the training, setup and leadup to the Puma Moth World Championship in Dubai UAE, including UAE National Championship and MarineTachSlalom.

With Day One of PUMA International Moth Worlds coming to a completion, the event is shaping up to be a battle of wits, weather and worldliness. With a forecast that is fairly typical- light to moderate breeze, generally flat water and the likelihood of at least a few low-riding (off the foils) races, time will prove interesting results over the course of this week.

The fleet sailed one race today, the course being a standard windward leeward course, three times around, each leg a mile in length. The conditions on day one were calm waters with 6-8 knots of breeze, a bit light for the moths. The light wind speed made it difficult for sailors to get up, and stay up on their foils. Andrew “Amac” McDougall (AUS) lead the first beat and finished Race 1 with a bullet. Michael Lennon (GBR), Brad Funk (USA), Chris Graham (UAE) and Simon Payne (GBR) rounded out the 44-boat fleet.

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Chris Graham was named the new UAE National Champ. Here is a wrap up video with the Champ post-event.

UAE Nationals just wrapped things up in Dubai, just in time for PUMA Moth Worlds to get started tomorrow. Familiar names were once again at the top of the leader board.  Chris Graham, a sailor from Duabi took the number one spot as a result of consistent finishes.  Maybe this is a preview of the results we’ll be seeing at Worlds???

Here are the top five:

1. Chris Graham - UAE
2. Arnaud Psarofaghis - SUI
3. Bora Gulari - USA
4. Scott Babbage - AUS
5. Rob Gough - AUS

photo credit: T. Martinez.

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Here is the official logo from PUMA International Moth Worlds.

PUMA has taken over the DOSC! PUMA International Moth is going to start on Monday, and the DOSC is fully branded up with PUMA.