Music Whenever; Lykke Li, Bon Iver "Dance Dance Dance"

There's something primal about this performance............

Lykke Li & Bon Iver doing 'Dance Dance Dance' in L.A from Lykke Li on Vimeo.

Two Vintage Singlehander Videos

I seem to be stuck on the old, the vintage, at the moment. It's just that so much fascinating old stuff is pouring into Earwigoagin Central that I must ride the wave. So.... expect more of the same.

Two interesting Videos just popped onto my radar. The first covers the British Moth Championship of 1956. I wrote a previous post on the British Moth. Suffice to say the British Moth is the most popular Circle M Moth going these days.

From the British Pathe' website (TOH to Nessa in the www.cvrda.org forums for pointing this out). Click on the picture to link to the webpage with the video..........

CAPSIZE - NOT LIKELY!

And an old video from the mid-60's featuring the Solo dinghy racing in Holland. Again, I wrote about the Solo dinghy in a previous post. The Solo seems to going from strength to strength in England, registering 70+ registrants in the last 5 UK nationals despite the relentless Laser Borg.

Sabre Dinghy of Australia

This 12' home build singlehander, popular in the South of Australia, is a favorite of blogger Joe Rouse over at the ever interesting blog, The Horse's Mouth . According to Wikipedia, the Sabre was designed by Rex Fettell in 1974.

A simple V-chine design, the hull weight comes in at 90 lbs. (41 kg.), a little lighter than the Europe Dinghy but still a lightweight compared to most other singlehanders out there.

Building a Sabre has been documented with lots of photos at this website .

A picture shamelessly lifted from the Woodenboat Forum.



And a great video of a top notch Sabre sailor battling a sudden storm out on the race course (Brighton and SeaCliff YC). (Looks like an all-glass Sabre in this video.)

Classic Moth Plans; Metric Offsets for "Little Mae Too"

Plans de voiliers classique Moth, plans d$#233;riveur classique Moth.

As promised, here are the metric offsets to the Vintage Moth design "Little Mae Too". It might help those tired eyes trying to decipher the blurry offsets from the drawings.

The original post with drawings can be found here. (To print or download the PDF, click on the upward facing arrow icon in the top-right app bar. The PDF will open in another tab in your browser where you can print or download the PDF.)

Just for the thrill of it

I've been a small boat sailor for most of my life. When you get as heavily into racing small sailboats as I had in the past, you get somewhat jaded, you forget that thrill of just scooting along in a small boat. This video of an Englishman whooping it up in a Topper scow brings back the joy I felt as an eleven year old sailing the family's El Toro.

(Plus the chap keeps yelling the name of my blog over and over again.........)

Another Young Boatbuilder Emerges; a CLC SUP build

Just as I was lamenting the lack of young people interested in building their own boats, Pete, the son of my good friend and Classic Moth buddy John Z, comes home from college for Christmas break and puts together a CLC standup paddleboard in two weeks! With such a short timeline, Pete put together a daily schedule using a spreadsheet. And stick to the schedule he did as the completed paddleboard went back to college with him.

Pete with hull done, awaiting deck.



Pete doing the final fit out.



Pete paddling somewhere near Duke University, NC.



And your blogmeister, lured by promises of a swig of the nice dark Norwegian stout John received over Christmas, showed up one night to supervise.

Classic Moth kit offered in the U.S; Clint Chase Boatbuilders

Conception classique Moth voilier.

I just recently posted about the Francois Vivier French Classic Moth plywood kit . Just looking at the illustrations, it appears to be a stable, capable Classic Moth design; probably fitting into our Gen 1 division very nicely. It turns out that Clint Chase Boatbuilders in Maine can offer the plywood kit from the U.S. I don't have complete info on the pricing, but initial emails with Clint indicate the cost would be very reasonable. If one was to jump into building the kit, I and others within the class would gladly fill in the blanks on the rig, sails and blades for the Moth.

Clint's boat kit website can be seen here.