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	<title>International Moth Records.</title>
	<section>
		<title>Moth World Champions Lists</title>
		<list>
			<item url="worlds/champions.html">Complete list of all Moth World Champions</item>
			<item url="worlds/junior_champions.html">Complete list of all Moth World Junior Champions</item>
			<item url="worlds/masters_champions.html">Complete list of all Moth World Masters Champions</item>
			<item url="worlds/commodore_challenge.html">Complete list of all  Commodore's Challenge Trophy winners (South Pacific Champion)</item>
		</list>
	</section>
    <section>
    	<title>Moth Continential/Regional Champions</title>
    	<list>
			<item url="europeans/open_champions.html">Complete list of all Moth European Open Champions</item>
			<item url="europeans/european_champions.html">Complete list of all Moth European Champions</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Introduction</title>
		<para>The following is a collection of Moth record claims.</para>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Age</title>
		<list>
			<item>Youngest persons to fly (Peter Ehvert -  month and a half over 10 years old.)</item>
			<item>Oldest person to fly (Mike Fletcher - AUS - 70 years old - Prowler - 2004)</item>
			<item>Oldest person to race in a worlds (Colin Newman - GBR - 65 years old - Prowler - 30 June 2007)</item>
			<item>Oldest person to win a race in a worlds (Andrew MacDougall  - AUS - 53 years old Bladerider - 11 July 2008)</item>
			<item>Oldest person to win a worlds (Simon Payne - GBR - 41 years old? - Prowler - 30 July 2006)</item>
			<item>Oldest person to win any championships (Andrew McDougall - AUS - 51 years old - Prowler - 2006)</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Weight</title>
		<list>
			<item>Lightest to fly (Paris Henken - USA - 35kgs - Bladerider - 9 November 2007)</item>
			<item>Heaviest to fly (Bora Gulari - USA - 150kgs - sailing two up with girlfriend - Bladerider - September 2007)</item>
			<item>Heaviest to gybe airbourne (Bora Gulari - USA - 150kgs - sailing two up with girlfriend - Bladerider - September 2007)</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Speed</title>
		<list>
			<item>Top speed (Rohan Veal - AUS - 27.9 knots - Prowler - 11 June 2006)</item>
			<item>Top 10 second average (Arnaud Psarofaghis - SUI - 26.1 knots - Bladerider - 9 July 2008)</item>
			<item>Fastest 'around the world in dubai' (Rohan Veal - 1:29.37 - Bladerider - 1 November 2007).</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Racing</title>
		<list>
			<item>Most world championships won (3 times each held by Jean Pierre Roggo, SUI David Izatt, GBR - Mark Thorpe, AUS)</item>
			<item>Biggest world championship race win margin from 2nd place (Rohan Veal - AUS - 17 minutes - Prowler - January 2005) &amp; (Simon Payne - GBR - 17 minutes - Prowler - 29 July 2006)</item>
			<item>Most wins at a world championships (Rohan Veal - AUS - 8 wins - Prowler &amp; Bladerider - January 2005 &amp; June 2007)</item>
			<item>Most wins at a national championships (Rohan Veal - AUS - 8 wins at 2003/4 Australian Championships)</item>
			<item>Most National championships won (Emmett Lazich - AUS - 5 Australian Championships)</item>
			<item>Most State Championships ever won (Brian Morris - AUS - 8 Victorian State Championships) or (Mark Thorpe - AUS - 8 NSW State Championships)???</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Hydrofoil Pioneers...</title>
		<list>
			<item url="history/frank_foiler.xml">Frank Raisin (AUS) put his Scow Moth on foils in February 1972.</item>
			<item url="/img/news/2007/FirstFoiler.jpg">Ian Ridge (GBR) flew with a hydrofoil in 1988.</item>
			<item url="/img/records/andy_paterson_foiling.jpg">Andy Paterson (GBR) flew his Axeman with hydrofoils in 1994.</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>First Person to...</title>
		<para>
(NOTE from Simon Nelson: 
John Claridge used a pocket luff sail to win the Europeans in 1978
and I am pretty sure he used it at the worlds the following year. I don't
have a copy of those results to see if he won a race or not, but there is a
good chance.)
		</para>
		<list>
			<item>Win a race at a Worlds on a skiff (David Izatt? - Magnum 3? - Travemünde, Germany? - 1979?)</item>
			<item>First to win a worlds in a skiff (Bill Short - Womble - Hayling Island 1977)</item>
			<item>Win a race at a Worlds with a pocket luff sail (Emmett Lazich - AUS - Lake Macquarie, NSW - Januray 1995)</item>
			<item>Win a worlds with a pocket luff sail (Emmett Lazich - AUS - Lake Macquarie, NSW - Januray 1995)</item>
			<item>Win a race at a worlds with hydrofoils (Brett Burvill - AUS - Perth - January 2000)</item>
			<item>Win a world championships with hydrofoils (Rohan Veal - AUS - Prowler - January 2005)</item>
		</list>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Distance</title>
		<list>
			<item>Furtherest sailed south (Steve Coakley - USA - 77 degrees, 50 minutes South, McMurdo Sound - 5 Feb 1965)</item>
			<item>Longest drop (Jack Driscoll - USA - 100 metres approx - September 2007)</item>
		</list>
	</section>
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