The International Moth Class Association

International Moth Records.

Moth World Champions Lists

• Complete list of all Moth World Champions
• Complete list of all Moth World Junior Champions
• Complete list of all Moth World Masters Champions
• Complete list of all Commodore's Challenge Trophy winners (South Pacific Champion)

Moth Continential/Regional Champions

• Complete list of all Moth European Open Champions
• Complete list of all Moth European Champions

The following is a collection of Moth record claims.

Age

• Youngest persons to fly (Key Becker, 10 years old - Sailing out of American YC, Rye, NY - Wind 5-10 kts in September 2008)
• Oldest person to fly (Mike Fletcher - AUS - 70 years old - Prowler - 2004)
• Oldest person to race in a worlds (Colin Newman - GBR - 65 years old - Prowler - 30 June 2007)
• Oldest person to win a race in a worlds (Andrew MacDougall - AUS - 53 years old Bladerider - 11 July 2008)
• Oldest person to win a worlds (Simon Payne - GBR - 41 years old? - Prowler - 30 July 2006)
• Oldest person to win any championships (Andrew McDougall - AUS - 51 years old - Prowler - 2006)

Weight

• Lightest to fly (Peter Ehvert - 29kgs)
• Heaviest to fly (Bora Gulari - USA - 150kgs - sailing two up with girlfriend - Bladerider - September 2007)
• Heaviest to gybe airbourne (Bora Gulari - USA - 150kgs - sailing two up with girlfriend - Bladerider - September 2007)

Speed

• Top speed (Rohan Veal - AUS - 27.9 knots - Prowler - 11 June 2006)
• Top 10 second average (Arnaud Psarofaghis - SUI - 26.1 knots - Bladerider - 9 July 2008)
• Fastest 'around the world in dubai' (Rohan Veal - 1:29.37 - Bladerider - 1 November 2007).

Racing

• Most world championships won (3 times each held by Jean Pierre Roggo, SUI David Izatt, GBR - Mark Thorpe, AUS)
• Biggest world championship race win margin from 2nd place (Rohan Veal - AUS - 17 minutes - Prowler - January 2005) & (Simon Payne - GBR - 17 minutes - Prowler - 29 July 2006)
• Most wins at a world championships (Rohan Veal - AUS - 8 wins - Prowler & Bladerider - January 2005 & June 2007)
• Most wins at a national championships (Bora Gulari - USA - 9 wins at 2008 US National Championships)
• Most National Championships won (Claudius Bühler - GER - 10 times German National Champion - in the 80's)
• Most Australian State Championships ever won (Brian Morris - AUS - 8 Victorian State Championships) or (Mark Thorpe - AUS - 8 NSW State Championships)???

Hydrofoil Pioneers...

• Frank Raisin (AUS) put his Scow Moth on foils in February 1972.
• Ian Ridge (GBR) flew with a hydrofoil in 1988.
• Andy Paterson (GBR) flew his Axeman with hydrofoils in 1994.

First Person to...

(NOTE from Simon Nelson: John Claridge used a pocket luff sail to win the Europeans in 1978 and I am pretty sure he used it at the worlds the following year. I don't have a copy of those results to see if he won a race or not, but there is a good chance.)

• Win a race at a Worlds on a skiff (David Izatt? - Magnum 3? - Travemünde, Germany? - 1979?)
• First to win a worlds in a skiff (Bill Short - Womble - Hayling Island 1977)
• Win a race at a Worlds with a pocket luff sail (Emmett Lazich - AUS - Lake Macquarie, NSW - Januray 1995)
• Win a worlds with a pocket luff sail (Emmett Lazich - AUS - Lake Macquarie, NSW - Januray 1995)
• Win a race at a worlds with hydrofoils (Brett Burvill - AUS - Perth - January 2000)
• Win a world championships with hydrofoils (Rohan Veal - AUS - Prowler - January 2005)

Distance

• Furtherest sailed south (Steve Coakley - USA - 77 degrees, 50 minutes South, McMurdo Sound - 5 Feb 1965)
• Longest drop (Jack Driscoll - USA - 100 metres approx - September 2007)