Moth Worlds 2021: Slingsby is #1
Photos by Martina Orsini / Fraglia Vela Malcesine, excellent complete gallery by Martina here.
Earlier this year on a Sail GP event preview reel Tom Slingsby stated he was Number #1 Sailor in the World. Laser World Champ & 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist, the Aussie is also an Americas Cup winner with Oracle, plus SailGP Season 1 Champ. In Moths he already won a Worlds in Perth 2019 and this week he crowned himself as the absolute Moth dominator at the 2021 Moth Worlds.
But as a complete performance sailor we think Outteridge, Burling & Tuke are more overall as they can also excel in dinghy Cats like As or N17 (for Nathan too & Ruggero). The A-Cat being a foiling platform that has no automatic flight controller like the Moth has involves an addtional degree of skill.
The Moth is the Foiler by excellence, without any question, but we would like to see Tom winning over Ashby , Mischa , Brewin & Bundy in the A-Cats. There we will officially name him the very Best & most Complete sailor to ever lived!
Total wipe for Tom at Fraglia Vela Malcesine Moth Worlds, 13 Bullets out of 14 races with that fleet is a superb achievement. Hats off to Slingsby and we encourage him to race coming A-Cat Worlds next year in Florida.
Slingsby & Jense sailed a Bieker / North combo.
bOn the Exploder/ D3 Moth, Tom Johnson finished 11th overall, with many top tens and top 5s for him and Diego Botín in his first serious Moth regatta, Diego managed to lead over Slingsby in one race but had some teething issues like a broken block, and other details common for a brand new platform on its first ever regatta.
Great job done once more by Jakub Kopylowicz, who will target a Moth Worlds Title. He has by now several F18, A Cat ones, plus a Vice in Formula Windfoil too, getting a Moth Worlds in the future is not something to discard, after the impressive performance on this brand new design by Gonzalo Redondo / D3 Applied Technologies & Company. We will do a QA with him soon on the R&D .
Top 15 , complete Results here
| Pos | Sal | Helm | N | T | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 1 | AUS 1 | Tom SLINGSBY | 12 | 15 | -1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | AUS 4739 | Iain JENSEN | 39 | 71 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 5 | -12 | -20 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | GBR 4823 | Paul GOODISON | 52 | 149 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | DNC | RDG | 4 | 2 | -25 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | AUS 2 | Kyle LANGFORD | 56 | 90 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | -18 | 7 | 13 | -16 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | ITA 5 | Francesco BRUNI | 58 | 87 | 5 | 8 | 4 | -18 | 3 | 8 | 3 | -11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| 6 | NZL 4740 | Phil ROBERTSON | 61 | 88 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | -15 | 3 | 4 | -12 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | ITA 4725 | Ruggi TITA | 62 | 89 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -13 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 5 | -14 |
| 8 | AUS 4629 | Nathan OUTTERIDGE | 66 | 109 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | -16 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -27 |
| 9 | ITA 4689 | Simone SALVÀ | 98 | 135 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 10 | -19 | 13 | -18 | 17 |
| 10 | GBR 4853 | Dylan FLETCHER | 103 | 195 | 6 | 5 | 5 | RET | 7 | 10 | 18 | 6 | -20 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | AUS 9 | Thomas JOHNSON | 107 | 162 | -35 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 14 | -20 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 9 |
| 12 | GBR 4817 | David HIVEY | 114 | 171 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 9 | -30 | 14 | 15 | -27 | 12 | 16 |
| 13 | ITA 4448 | Francesco BIANCHI | 119 | 263 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 | DNC | RET | 24 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 8 |
| 14 | USA 6 | Bradley FUNK | 129 | 171 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 13 | -22 | 15 | 9 | 12 | -20 | 13 |
| 15 | ITA 4724 | Gian Maria FERRIGHI | 138 | 215 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 5 | -44 | -33 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 11 |
