as I and I were on our way back from the Bay to Bay we stopped at Lake Cootharabah to check out the floods - well to see if the lake was still full from the flooding before easter.
The water looked a little higher than normal, but there was still enuf beach to rig on, which means it is still a long walk out to foil depth.
while we were there we did come across this sorry looking moth, complete with outboard bracket.
sadly it makes a better 'thing' than a moth.
It brings a tear to my eye to see the fly butchered like that. I'm also laughing my head off at how much better a 'thing' it is than it was a moth. The Fly was a pig of a boat to sail - it could only be better with a motor on it. What's worse is that there was another improved boat built from the same mould, KA 9163. Still what you are looking at here is the remnants of the first skinny skiff built in AUS for the Ratzburg worlds in 1990... it was still being built when the worlds started so it hardly had a great start.
ReplyDeleteAt least the windsurfer that was sacrificed to become the amas matches the boat - surprisingly.
Wonder what happened to the solid foam wings it used to have?
Oh, well, yes... I remember that boat. Although I liked Andrew Landenberger's High-Flyer much better, which was a skinny one, too, wasn't it?
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One Moth to rule them all,
ReplyDeleteOne Moth to find them,
One Moth to rescue them all (after busting another gantry)
and in the darkness foil them.
J. R. R. Narkla, The Fellowship of the Moth
haha, just saw the name/slogan on the bow
ReplyDeletei HAD THE greatest COMMENT typed up just now but blogspot ATE IT! Chinchillazillas required STAT to rescue my broken masted self from Waterworld! They have gantry issues. Why not just make it from fiberglass tubes like Bill and Gui - MUCH CHEAPER and JUST AS LIGHT.
ReplyDeleteThere is movement on this front. Hopefully good news coming this week. Sunday was a specatular day for a sail, the wind machine dial was turned on to 15 knots at 10am and didn't waiver till sunset. Will try to get out this weekend.
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