By the numbers

Sailing is on hold for a while as it's cold in Park City (-10 F this morning...fun). So the boat is stored for the Winter and I'm eyeing the small project list though I'll take some time to relax and focus on skiing for a while and put sailing on the back burner.

Thanks to Richard Davies, the US Moth class President, who while I was in Long Beach at the Turkey Day Regatta at ABYC, diagnosed a couple of issues on my setup and set me straight. He also measured the WB and it's officially a MOTH! I'm stoked for all of that and can't wait for the Spring.

A picture of the Moth sitting on the car prior to heading to San Diego to see the America's Cup World Series and then to Long Beach/ABYC for the Turkey Regatta.

Sailing but not foiling

I got out for an hour or two today and it went very well. In general the boat had no issues, setup went well, launch was relatively easy but the wind was light so I had very little time out on the outer wing bars. It was probably a good way to get the boat wet and to see how things went, too much wind may have been more than I wanted to deal with. Hopefully we'll get some great breeze next weekend.

Finished...for now

It's in primer gray and not completely faired but that was the plan for some time, to get it to a sailable point where if something went wrong as I got foiling, I wouldn't have to repair a fresh paint job. So there it is, battleship (545 primer) gray. Now it's time to get the rust off my minimal foiling skills from the loan of the West Coast Sailing demo Bladerider RX two years ago that George was so willing to leave with me for a bit.

Almost Ready...almost mothable

A little more fairing/finishing work, a bit of rigging and the wand system. The boat's almost mothable.

She ain't a looker but she'll do

Here's where the boat is at the moment. I'm dialing in the gantry, wand system and racks over the next few days. The boat will be primed in a week or so and ready for a test sail soon.

Getting closer...

I should probably suck it up and take a picture but there hasn't been much to see recently. I've been fairing the hull a little here and there and doing other work. This morning I finished clear coating the forward and aft racks. The other day I vacuum bagged the forward rack supports with a layer of carbon. Tonight after some Laser sailing I'll probably remove the tape from the racks and start mounting the Harken 291 cleats on the forward rack set. Tomorrow night I'm planning to work on the gantry fitting and some more fairing work.

All in all, it's coming along. I hope to be sailing it soon. The rigging is about complete. I have to drill the hole for the boom but otherwise the rigging is nearly complete. The wand system will go together starting this weekend as I've already been working on that as well.

We'll see...

Back to work

There's not much worth taking pictures of at the moment but I've back to work. Projects included fairing, clear coating the forward and aft racks, working on the port rack support, fairing and a couple of other odds and ends. Tonight is round two of clear coating along with...fairing. Part of my plan to ensure that the racks cure quickly enough is to load them into my car and bring them to work down in Salt Lake City. The extra heat down here during the day should speed the process up. It's an oven on wheels.