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Chris Rashley (Southampton, England) celebrated his 27th<\/sup> birthday today by winning Races 4 and 5 at the Amlin International Moth Regatta in Bermuda.<\/p>\n Rashley (above) overcame strong winds and near-blinding conditions, punctuated by a squall with gusts topping 30 knots, to take over the lead of the $10,000 regatta.<\/p>\n \u201cDavid (Campbell-James, the principal race officer) made an excellent decision to go out today,\u201d said Rashley. \u201cThere were a lot of hesitant people and at times you couldn\u2019t see because the rain was in your eyes, but we started on time and the racing was proper.\u201d<\/p>\n Tomorrow Rashley will wear the yellow bib recognizing the overall leader at the regatta. After today\u2019s victories Rashley is tied with Day 1 leader Rob Greenhalgh of the U.K. with 7 points, but owns the tiebreak advantage because he won the last race sailed. (With five races completed, the regatta now discards each competitor\u2019s worst score.)<\/p>\n \u201cI had a good day,\u201d said Greenhalgh, who finished 3-2. \u201cBut Rashley\u2019s just too strong in those conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n With the wind blowing 18 to 24 knots as the fleet sailed to the racecourse on Great Sound some never even made it to the first start. By the end of the day at least half a dozen boats were brought back to shore on RIBs after suffering broken masts. Others suffered breakdowns that included broken booms, tillers and tiller extensions and other controls such as boom vangs and cunninghams.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing with these boats is that we have all the control lines in front of us, so if you pitch pole (capsize over the bow) you tend to take that stuff with you as you fly out of the boat,\u201d said Tom Offer of the U.K., who is placed 16th<\/sup> overall after enduring such an incident. \u201cIt was on the edge today.\u201d<\/p>\n The strong winds resulted in some blistering speeds for those who could handle the conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cI crossed the finish line doing 28.8 knots,\u201d said Benoit Marie of France in his heavy accent. \u201cI think I was doing over 30 knots at some points, but I wasn\u2019t able to look at the speedo all day, you know? It was crazy.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I feel good about today,\u201d Marie said of his 23-20, which has him placed 15th<\/sup> overall. \u201cAt the beginning of the year I couldn\u2019t sail in these conditions. But I\u2019ve made some adjustments and am very happy with how I went today.\u201d<\/p>\n Rashley said he was doing 28 to 30 knots on the runs, but had to slow down to 22 to 25 knots approaching the leeward gate to keep in control. The runner-up at last summer\u2019s European Championship and the 2014 Worlds, Rashley is one of the class\u2019s all-time tinkerers, developing sails, masts and foils to near perfection over the past five years.<\/p>\n Before coming to Bermuda last week for practice he fashioned a new paddle for the wand that controls the height of the Moth on its hydrofoils. Hoping to make a paddle that doesn\u2019t bounce off the water too much, which would lessen the movement of the flap on the main foil and provide a steadier ride, he had a paddle fashioned from a 3D printer that was painted bright pink. During a windy practice day, it suddenly went missing.<\/p>\n \u201cI was sailing upwind and doing 16 to 20 knots last week when a fish bit the paddle right off the wand,\u201d said Rashley. \u201cI\u2019m not a fisherman and don\u2019t know anything about fish, but I\u2019m told it was a barracuda. The paddle\u2019s a tiny thing, but that\u2019s what the class is about now. Everything else is so well developed.\u201d<\/p>\n The Amlin International Moth Regatta is sponsored by Amlin plc, a FTSE 250-listed independent global insurer and reinsurer with operations in the Lloyd\u2019s, UK, continental European and Bermudian markets. Additional sponsors include the Bermuda Tourism Authority, EFG International, Gosling\u2019s, the Official Rum of the Regatta, and Kaenon Polarized.<\/p>\n PROVISIONAL STANDINGS <\/strong>(after 5 races, with one discard) by\u00a0bermudamoths.com Chris Rashley (Southampton, England) celebrated his 27th birthday today by winning Races 4 and 5 at the Amlin International Moth Regatta in Bermuda. Rashley (above) overcame strong winds and near-blinding conditions, punctuated by a squall with gusts topping 30 knots, to take over the lead of the $10,000 regatta. \u201cDavid (Campbell-James, the principal race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[514,287,8],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-are-foiling","tag-amlin-international-moth-regatta","tag-bermuda","tag-moth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/amlinday2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foilingweek.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.<\/strong> Chris Rashley (GBR) (4)-2-3-1-1 \u2013 7 points
\n2.<\/strong> Rob Greenhalgh (GBR) 1-(4)-1-3-2 \u2013 7
\n3.<\/strong> Simon Hisccocks (GBR) 3-8-(59\/DNF)-2-3 \u2013 16
\n4.<\/strong> Chris Draper (SoftBank Team Japan) 5-1-(7)-4-7 \u2013 17
\n5.<\/strong> Paul Goodison (Artemis Racing) 2-3-2-(13)-10 \u2013 17
\n6.<\/strong> Kyle Langford (ORACLE Team USA) 6-(16)-4-9-5 \u2013 24
\n7.<\/strong> Ben Paton (GBR) 7-7-8-(12)-4 \u2013 26
\n8.<\/strong> Jason Belben (GBR) (13)-5-11-5-8 \u2013 29
\n9.<\/strong> Anthony Kotoun (ISV) 8-(19)-12-7-6 \u2013 33
\n10.<\/strong> Victor Diaz de Leon (VEN) 16-6-6-(21)-12 \u2013 40
\n(For a complete list of results, please click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"