Whole new world

So obviously my hull shell and decks need a full chop all around to measure as a moth, So I've started that process. I think it looks pretty cool. Here's some new dims.

Length: 3350mm (of course)
Beam: 380mm (Pretty wide, so I'm going to try to make up for it in freeboard......)
Stem Height: 260mm (see, short, I almost think I could go with even less)
Stern Height: 182mm (Is this an IC?)
Stern Width: 282mm (nope, its a skiff)

All my appendage placement should be pretty standard. Rig is standard pocket luff for now. (if anyone is trying to off a mast or boom I'm interested.)

Still have to settle on a shape for the bow and stern, wingmounts should be straight forward Ninja style tubes.

If anyone has any thoughts or idea's let me know.

really....

Enough with the emails. I'm killing the trapfoiler concept. Until I can get down to working one full time job (instead of 2) I just don't have the time to give to something so involved right now. I hope to get back to it sometime down the line if the need arises. Time spent developing moths and moth bits will only add to it down the line. Knowing how to sail a foiler might be a better place to jump from as opposed to ground zero with nothing but brain teaser concepts to work with. On the plus side, I might be able to get to sailing some time this century. After seeing a moth in the flesh(damn you Eric) it seems to me that learning to sail one of those will be hard enough without all the added complexity of developing a new foil system, rig and sail. After watching the local wind patterns for the last 2 years I have concluded that a trapeze in Colorado is super duper overkill, I'll be lucky to get up and foiling most days. I originally planned to relocate to a more wind friendly place (read Portland OR) where I could take advantage of the trapeze, but that's no longer in the cards for now.There are some development opportunities I have for the moth that are just more interesting to me than bumping around in the dark with this thing for the foreseeable future.

Rail on, or don't.

-The Reluctant Mothie

going rogue.....but not really at all.

This is going to be the silliest shit I ever write on here.........This guy (Eric Nelson) moved to town and brought his moth. I went to Union Reservoir on Sunday to check it out (just lookin, ya know). I shouldn't have done that. Hydrofoil Sailing is even cooler than I had imagined. I sat there for a couple hours just watching. Then I came home and started figuring out how to chop my boat to fit moth rules.( something I've been fighting internally since the beginning). Now it's inevitable. Something I never thought would happen is happening. Moths are coming to Colorado. There is some talk, and defiantly some interest. Now its one thing when your a lone wingnut on a mountaintop who's going to develop this wacky idea out of pure isolation. nothing to do but get quotes and things for custom one off parts and masts and sails. (Making a one off boat is a pain in the ass). Its something all together different to have to watch other people race some pretty cool boats against each other with standard parts and kit all available and such, while your still getting quotes. Combine that with the supertech arms race that's going on in the class.... I need in. I'm sorry to anyone who thought this thing had legs, maybe someday. Right now I just want to get sailing. All you crazy SA moth legends "you told me so" I should have listened. More to come, I'm working on it. the cut down hull shape is super wacky. Anyone who read my thread on SA about wider low freeboard hullshapes won't be surprised, that thread was the beginning of this move. Have at it. Onward and upward.........

Damn coke badger

Today while fairing I was unceremoniously attacked by the Coke Badger. Will someone please tell him that Quickfair is different than Peruvian flake.......

I spent the morning pleading with the gods of fluid dynamics to look away just this once, but in the end went out to the shop, put on the tyvec and mask, papered the longboard and went after it. Things are "shaping" up (pun intended) and the outside is starting to look all smooth and pretty like the inside. Still have a ways to go though.