For you design geeks...
Andrew Slavinskas is continuing a discussion of Classic Moth design over at Woodenboat Forums. Lots of hydrostatic analysis including some of the Tweezer design.
New England News...
New Englander Yarrow Thorne has refurbished his Crosby Skimmer Moth and also picked up an Etchell's Connecticut Moth that was languishing up in the Northeast. Both were entered in the Archipelago Rally pursuit race in Rhode Island at the end of October. Unfortunately the Connecticut swamped and couldn't be self rescued, a bad habit of the vintage Moths since many had no built-in flotation. (Why would you worry about getting the Moth up quickly since the sailing season back then was Memorial Day to Labor Day and the water was warm.)
Yarrow racing his Skimmer Moth in the Archipelago Rally.
Photo by Rufus Van Gruisen
The Skimmer on the dock at the Rally.
Photo by Rufus Van Gruisen
The advantage of vintage Classic Moths is they float upright when moored out. Yarrow's fleet; the Connecticut is in the backgroud.
Meanwhile over in Merrie Old England...
Over at the Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis, Jake Stow is building a Mistral.
The English are busy digging 1960's Rondar Skols and mint condition Shelleys out of backyards and putting them back on the water .
Stuart Mander's barn find, a beautiful double-bottom wooden Shelley.
A glass Skol
A Skol getting the longboard treatment.
Jim Champ has launched his UnSkol with the new hull sections he designed.
Ian Marshall has had a successful run in the English CVRDA (Classic/Vintage Racing Dinghy Association) events, sailing a Classic Moth Shelley Mk I with a tall rig.
The Classic Moth class has a good number of one-off designs. It was a easy class (inexpensive, un-complicated, with the freedom to build in wood) to show that you had invented a better mouse-trap. English helms-woman Vanessa Weedon Jones owns this interesting double chine plywood Moth, Yellow Peril, that was professionally built in Derby. I like the free-standing wood mast.
The Chesapeake Bay Classic Moth Fleet...
The Chesapeake Bay wrapped up the season at Chestertown with the Patterson Regatta in mid-October where we had 11 Classic Moths. Even the blogmeister was finally able to get his Maser together for that regatta. (The last two years, this is the only Classic Moth regatta I've been able to make.) Mike Parsons, this year's National Champ, continued his run at the top of the podium with a clear win in the Patterson.
An indistinct I-Phone photo of the fleet on Chester River in gentle breezes for the 2017 Patterson Cup.
Here is a photo from Earwigoagin's archives of the blogmeister with two of his Classic Moth's, a modified Stockholm Sprite and the Tweezer at the 2009 Chestertown/Patterson Regatta. (Both no longer in my fleet.) Joe Bousquet is adding some welcome informed advice. I always liked the yellow painted spar of Energizer (the Stockholm Sprite on the left, the spar was a cut down Finn spar.)
Post about Classic Moth plans over here.
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