Tom Slingsby owned the second day of the International Moth Worlds, winning his three final qualification heats to top the leaderboard by two points.
Tom Burton moves into second place, chasing hard with two wins and a second place, with Kyle Langford also taking a win to stay in the action in third place.
The leading pack are keeping it very close, just 12 points covering the top seven after six races decided the split for the gold and silver fleets.
All the race wins on day 2 came from the three leaders and they take a four point gap before fourth placed Francesco Bruni of Italy on 12 points.
In fifth place is Matt Chew, sixth Scott Babbage and rounding out the top group, Brad Funk of the USA with 17 points.
There is then a six point break to Rob Greenhalgh on 23 points, he resides in Sydney now but I believe still holds British nationality?
Funk said the race course wasn’t providing the pumping sea breezes that Perth was renowned for, and there were a few passing lanes up the top end of the course.
“At the top it’s not just solid pressure up there, you’ve got to get the first pressure so I went around a different gate and managed to get it so managed to come downwind and pass two boats.”
Britain’s Alex Adams (13,21,109) is 19th and Dan Ward (19,12,47) is in 22nd place.
It was a later start Saturday with another scorcher in Perth. It’s a day off Sunday, with the action picking back up on Monday for three final days.
2019 Chandler Macleod Moth Worlds – Leading scores after 6 races (118 entries)
1st AUS Tom Slingsby 1 1 1 1 1 [2.0] – – 5 pts
2nd AUS Tom Burton 2 1 1 1 2 [3.0] – – 7 pts
3rd AUS Kyle Langford 1 [4.0] 3 2 1 1 – – 8 pts
4th ITA Francesco Bruni 2 3 [4.0] 2 2 3 – – 12 pts
5th AUS Matthew Chew 5 2 2 [9.0] 3 1 – – 13 pts
6th AUS Scott Babbage 3 3 2 3 4 [4.0] – – 15 pts
7th USA Brad Funk 4 [6.0] 3 5 3 2 – – 17 pts
8th GBR Robert Greenhalgh [8.0] 5 6 3 5 4 – – 23 pts
9th AUS Joe Turner 5 2 [27.0] 4 4 10 – – 25 pts
10th AUS Josh Mcknight 8 5 [14.0] 6 5 5 – – 29 pts
11th AUS Thomas Johnson 3 4 10 6 [11.0] 7 – – 30 pts
12th NZL Graeme Sutherland [9.0] 7 5 8 6 5 – – 31 pts
13th NZL Sam Meech 6 6 4 11 7 [13.0] – – 34 pts
14th AUS Dean Souter 9 [10.0] 7 5 8 6 – – 35 pts
15th AUS Les Thorpe 7 9 7 4 [62.0F] 10 – – 37 pts
16th AUS Harold Mighell 6 8 6 10 [12.0] 8 – – 38 pts
17th AUS Will Boulden 10 9 5 [10.0] 8 7 – – 39 pts
18th AUS Steven Thomas 4 7 [19.0] 16 9 6 – – 42 pts
19th GBR Alex Adams 10 [21.0] 13 7 9 13 – – 52 pts
20th FRA Benoit Marie [38.0] 11 11 11 7 18.0N – – 58 pts
21st AUS Luka Damic 11 15 9 [22.0] 14 9 – – 58 pts
22nd GBR Dan Ward [47.0] 12 19 9 16 9 – – 65 pts
23rd USA Rome Kirby [24.0] 18 23 7 10 8 – – 66 pts
24th AUS Keagan York 16 15 9 14 12 [62.0U] – – 66 pts
25th GBR Jim Mcmillan 12 16 12 14 [62.0F] 12 – – 66 pts
