Whats Next?

There was some prety impressive sailing in Dubai at the worlds. Simon Payne is a worthy winner with a very consistant string of top places. AMAC won most races but his style is high risk and a few times it eveidently did not pay off. A worthy second though to add to his long string of Moth WC seconds.
So AMAC has only been beaten twice this season, once by fly weight Simon and once at the Sydney International regattta by heavyweight Dave. Must be a good sign for the class when people of such diverse size can win against top competitors.
The dominance of theMach 2 is impressive. Not sure if all those people are going fast because they have Mach2s or because they are all the fast people who have chosen to buy what everyone agrees is the boat with the edge on everyone. Maybe there were no fast people on other boats to really compare the speed advantage.
Also a lot of full time sailors too. Scott was seventh and may have been the first one with a full time job not involved in boats or sailing. Not many weekend sailors in the top of the fleet any more.
Yes the wind was light but maybe not as light as some people complained about. I agree with Simon's coment that the class needs to cope with whatever the weather delivers and prepare accordingly if possible. I may be 85kg but I still like 5kts but miss out at 8 when the flyweights start to fly. Thats life, and normal sailing but not necessarilly appropriate for a Worlds.

Anyway that was over there and I was over here so I may have it all wrong. Whats up here?

Karma has been going much better. I have an MSL 13 on a CTech 40mm HM mast and also changed the rudder since Perth. I have a stayed rig now having broken the unstayed rig on the last day of the nationals. I am just leaving it alone now and looking forward to the NSW Champs at Belmont over Easter. Hope the wind gods co-operate better than last year.

So I a new winter project coming up.
I have a collection of gear including the broken unstayed mast and corresponding sail, a second set of foils, trampoline, ropes, wires spreaders fittings. And recently Moth Legend Peter Moor (who will be PRO at Belmont for the states and worlds) cleaned out his shed and gave me a sheet of 2mm Australian Cedar ply which he has had for about 35 years, since he was making Snubby Scows.
I figure that a piece of valuable Aust Cedar with that heritage just has to be made into a moth. So I have revisited the old ply design from 2004 and will be assembling a moth hull over the winter month. Needing wings I contacted the club's sailboarders and Wayne kindly cleared his shed of broken masts and I now have plenty of nice light carbon tubes for wings.
I need to buy trolley wheels, some carbon for seaming the ply, foam for bulkheaads and paint. I recon I will get afloat for less than $1000. A bit of a saving on a Mach2 but I probably would not be up the front of the fleet anyway at age 60. But it will be light and who knows.