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I'd love to hear from anyone with any experience of either boat, and problems you've had, things to look out for. Anything you think could be useful to a noob!

I'm trying out the x8 this weekend, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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I am in South Africa and we do not have supplier or any moths to my knowledge, so if I would like to sail a moth, I ether need to import (to expensive) or build. Been doing some reseach on moth builds and see that one can build the hull and foils but have not seen any info on mast and wand.

Will one be able to build the mast as well and can one construct the wand and accompanying hardware too? Where can I find info on this?
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If any of you don know of a few blogs showing the build, please let me know.

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Amac doesn't think wings are good for the class. His arguments are:
1. Wings would increase cost
2. They are more difficult to rescue
3. They are unlikely to increase the popularity of the class as hydrofoils did
4. They may push the class into obscurity a la C-class cats

I say we watch people build a few and see how they deal with reality before getting too excited. My reasoning is as follows:

1. The current cost of the boat is already high, and it doesn't seem to be inhibiting the growth of the class much. Anybody with $18k USD to spend on a new boat can certainly afford $25k, and the middle of the fleet are already getting blown away by the top guys by margins so huge that a wing won't change the interval significantly. Non-wing dudes will remain the majority and will continue to race.
2. The practical issues may go away as people figure out ways to rescue and disassemble wings
3. A wing may never prove conclusively superior to a soft sail
4. Even if wings prove faster, the only way to prove that is to let people build and compete with them. We can always ban them later if it proves too cumbersome/dangerous/expensive.
5. We could create a whole new cottage wingbuilding industry.

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Many Thanks For Your Advise
Mike]]> http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/18/66.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/18/66.page GMT what are the rough weight/wind speed combinations?
do the different makes and models of moth vary in difficulty?

I know NOTHING about these boats, so any advice would be appreciated :)

thank you all.
George]]> http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/15/59.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/15/59.page GMT
My question is where can I find a building guide explaining how to build a moth? If not a full guide then where can I find a guide or some sort of blog explaining how to go about designing a moth from scratch? What are the key things a moth class boat must have in order to race?
Thank you for any help you give :) ]]> http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/12/51.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/12/51.page GMT
Cheers in advance!

Dec
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]]> http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/9/41.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/9/41.page GMT I bought boat and I want to knew what is it, specification or something more.
http://fothost.pl/show.php/2015715_IMG0572.jpg.html
http://fothost.pl/show.php/2015716_IMG0574.jpg.html
http://fothost.pl/show.php/2015714_IMG0571.jpg.html

best regards
rafal
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as part of my research thesis on the causes of rudder ventilation I'm needing some good (preferably angled such that the entire rudder is in view plus a bit either side), high res (at least 800x600), high frame rate video of some rudders ventilating.

Does anyone have any better vids than J-P Ziegerts on youtube? I'm willing to pay for postage plus a bit of beer money for a burnt DVD if that is required...

Cheers
Jon

AUS TBA - New Assassin coming soon!]]> http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/7/36.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/7/36.page GMT http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/4/25.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/4/25.page GMT
Joe Bousquet]]> http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/2/16.page http://www.moth-sailing.org/imca/faces/posts/preList/2/16.page GMT