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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8 comments:

  1. BaydogOctober 15, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    So that's not you, Tweez? Devastated

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  2. dorymanOctober 15, 2012 at 7:06 PM

    That's a scow up there now, eh? Not too sure I like this "identify the header after-the-fact" business.

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  3. BaydogOctober 15, 2012 at 7:18 PM

    Scowish at least. Certainly not an A, E, M, C, or MC. Y-Flyer?

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  4. TweezermanOctober 18, 2012 at 4:20 AM

    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).

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  5. TillermanOctober 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    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.

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  6. TweezermanOctober 20, 2012 at 7:47 AM

    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).

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  7. DieharddinghysailorOctober 31, 2012 at 6:33 PM

    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...?

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  8. TweezermanNovember 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM

    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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