With the win Mongia not only retained the national title, but also booked a seat to take part in the World Laser Regatta Chempionship to be held at Australia in January next.

Rajesh Choudary of EME SA, with seven penalty points, won the Laser Radial Class event title and thus became the first sailor to win the national title (radial class) for the third time in-a-row.

Purshotham Sharma of EME SA with seven penalty points not only won the OK Dinghy national title, but also retained his crown pipping local favourite Anirudh Vijaykumar of Secunderabad Sailing Club to the second spot.

In the Enterprise it was a cakewalk for Mumbai's sailing club pair of Dilip Kumar Acharya and Jitendra Rami as his crewto win the national title with six points.

Teenager Varun Prabhakar of Royal Madras Yatching Club, Chennai with nine penalty points won his maiden national Optimist title.

The Results
(all seventh race): Laser: R Mahesh (NSC, Mumbai), Nitin Mongia (NSC, Mumbai) and Sandeep Srikant (RMYC).Laser Radial: Sandeep Kapoor (CESA, Pune), Tirumala Rao (SSC), Dinesh Boorugu (SSC).

Enterprise: DK Acharya and JJ Rami (NSC, Mumbai), Dharmander Singh and J Joseph (EME SA), S Tawari and Jhoyyal (NDA, Pune).Optimist class: Varun Prabhakar (YMYC), Niloufer Jamal (RMYC) Shurti (SSC).

OK Dinghy: P Sharma (EMESA), Anirudh Vijaykumar (SSC), David Christpher (EMESA).

Overall positions: Laser: Nitin Mongia 11 points, Ram Kumar 18, and Arjun Pradeepak 18. Radial: Rajesh Choudary 7, Tirumala Rao 13, Sandeep Kapoor 19.Enterprise: DK Acharya and JJ Jain 6, D Singh and J Joseph 13, S Tiwari and Jhoyyal 19. Optimist: Varun Prabhakar 9, Niloufer 13, Mohammed Jamaluddin Babaand Shruti joint third with 22. OK Dinghy: P Sharma 7, Anirudh Vijaykumar 10, David Christopher 19.