It seem that no sooner is one event finished than preparation starts for another!
To try and keep costs to a minimum, Ricky Tagg is arranging the shipping for those wanting to go to Belmont. If you are planning on going, or thinking about it, please contact him so that he can include you in the [...]
Report by Mike Lennon
The August Bank Holiday weekend is the start of the week long Poole regatta. However the the first 3 days were used to score the Parkstone YC Moth open.
Parkstone having already Hosted the Moth racing circuit grand prix event in June, hosted this second more of a friendly open come training weekend. [...]
Photo © Katherine Knight
Adam May is keeping Foiltown in its rightful place leading innovation in the moth class. Check out his beautiful new wing: http://foilborne.blogspot.com/2010/08/eagle-has-landed.html
Wonderfully crafted by The Boatyard at Beer – a beautiful peace of British Engineering. Well done Adam for making it happen!
Below is the notice for the EGM to be held at the Europeans. It is the UK’s rep intention to vote in favour of the proposals, but we would like to know if anyone has any objections. If there is major objection our vote could be changed. Please post objections on the UK Moth Yahoo [...]
We are just over two weeks away from the European Championships and it seems more like a World Championships with nearly 80 boats registered.
It also seems like a record for team GB with 17 boats making an appearance. This promises to be the biggest International Moth Europeans to date with pretty much all of the [...]
Final Day Report by James Phare:
Photo © Sarah Rollinson
A mill pond like Torbay greeted the fleet for the final day of the 2010 UK Moth nationals. The prospect of a dying breeze however did not deter race officer Bob Penfold and his team from setting a course in the light southerly breeze. After a short postponement ashore [...]
Photo Courtesy of Emma Cooke
What a great National championship we have just enjoyed hosted by Royal Torbay, friendly welcome ( except the from the Harbour officials) and great help with launching etc. I reckon it took less than 40 mins to launch 43 boats and escort them out of the entrance.
A big thanks to James [...]
Si Payne holds an unassailable lead after day 3 – Photo © Sarah Rollinson
Day 3 Report by James Phare:
Cloudy skies and a light south westerly breeze greeted the fleet for the penultimate day of the UK International Moth Nationals. After a brief postponement however the fleet launched and racing was soon underway.
Arnaud Psarofaghis lead [...]
Photo © Richard Langdon – www.oceanimages.co.uk
Had plenty of breeze, 11 moths turned up, but not all raced – people being quite cautious with Nationals this week. Mike Lennon won with 5 wins out of 5, Jason Russell 2nd and Alex Adams 3rd. (In Alex’s words: Mike and Jif dominated!) We had glorious weather, unfortunately a [...]
Pic – 2009 and current UK National Champion Mike Cooke
Here is the pre-entries list (in no particular order) for the UK Nationals so far ie. the people who have replied via email that will be coming:
Alex Adams GBR 4082
Phil Oligario GBR 3764
Jonnie Hutchcroft GBR 3376
Mike Cooke GBR 3760
James Phare
Leo Carswell GBR [...]
The WHY Jewellers Parkstone YC Moth Open was preceded by a forecast of marginal foiling conditions, yet 25 moths turned out for the event at Poole over the weekend of 12/13th June.
As the fleet got to the racing area they realized how misleading forecasts can be; a gusty northerly force 4 greeted them for the [...]
Pro-Vela Moth Fest end of week round up.
Due to weekends lack of office workers we have 3 days to catch up on. Friday saw the fleet go for the downwind bar slalom. With a shorter course set up due to the fresh to fruity breeze the Mothies packed their spending money in their socks [...]
Foil Fest at Pro Vela Spain
Reviewed by Simon Propper
Inevitably the Moth blogosphere this week has been buzzing with trivia about what middle aged men got up to on the Costa del Crime. Really you’d be better off renting ‘Sexy Beast’ with Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley. None of that here: just compelling reasons why, if [...]
Queen Mary hosted the International Moth Inland Championships on 8th and 9th May. 21 boats attended from all over the country, despite a very light forecast and a number of people packing boats into crates to send them to the European Foil Fest in Spain.
Fortunately the breeze defied all forecasts and the fleet were greeted [...]
The first International Moth open of 2010 took place on Saturday at Bristol Corinthian yacht club. With a dire forecast for no wind and a few boats still astray after the recent Worlds in Dubai, 10 of the most persistent Mothies took to the skies in a very patchy marginal foiling breeze including three attending [...]
[ April 10, 2010 to April 11, 2010. ]
The first open of the season is this coming weekend at Bristol Corinthian YC. The event is set to be a 3 race series run on the Saturday 10th April starting at 11.30.
Now, I had planned on running a spectator friendly slalom event on the Sunday fitting around the club racing so as not to [...]
16 Foiling Moths descended onto Queen Mary SC for an impromptu weekend of coaching and practice in anticipation of the coming season.
Saturday saw seasoned veteran Mothies Alex Adams, Doug Pybus and Mike Cooke on hand to help out newcomers and regular Mothies alike on all points of their sailing whether it be just foiling along, [...]
Hi Simon,
Q. Once again, thank you for taking time out to do this interview. Your success must be considered one of the all time achievements in your moth career. How did you feel going in to the regatta?
A. That’s my second Moth World title but the first one back in 06 will always be the [...]
Photo © TH Martinez / Sea&Co / www.thmartinez.com
Simon Payne sailed a great regatta, winning by 9 points from fellow master Andrew McDougall.
The rest of the Brits helped bring home the Ashes: Lennon 8th, May 10th, Tagg 13th. Adams 20th, Penfold 24th, Hayden 26th, Phare 28th, Imrie 31st, Peats 41st. Full results here.
Full report coming soon.
