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Monday, October 15, 2012
Header Photo: British Moth at Speed
The header photo to grace the top of this blog for almost two months is the U.K brethren class to the U.S. Classic Moth, the British Moth; in this case a great photo of one planing in some breeze. I have written about the British Moth class in this post and also this post. I snitched this photo from their website.
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So that's not you, Tweez? Devastated
That's a scow up there now, eh? Not too sure I like this "identify the header after-the-fact" business.
Scowish at least. Certainly not an A, E, M, C, or MC. Y-Flyer?
Baydog,
The British Moth skipper looks much too suave on the water than I. Good guess on the scow but not a Y-Flyer. All will be revealed in time (and the way I've been posting, probably later than sooner).
Is it a scow or merely "scowish"?
I am pretty ignorant about scows but I thought one thing about scows is that you have to sail them heeled. That thing looks more like a planing dingy with a scowish bow.
Small scows are sailed heeled upwind but you sail them very much like a dinghy downwind. You want the flat bottom to be level when you are planing. Looking at the sails, this scow could be going upwind, so Tillerman does have a point (but the wind could have eased temporarily as well).
Grew up sailing British Moths on the Thames at Oxford, now living near Seattle, need to find a high aspect Moth rig for the Hadron I want to build, cheap...?
One or two of the Classic Moth crowd may have a high aspect ratio rig stuffed away in the garage but the trouble is you are on the West Coast and the Classic Moth fleet is on the East Coast and shipping costs may be prohibitive. Best to look for mast and sail from some older West Coast dinghies that come up on CraigsList every once in a while - like the C-Lark.
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