MOTH. Photo by Francis H. Gardner, courtesy Challenger Marine. 



MOTH 



The Moths are a development class. With a few restrictions almost any- 

 thing goes. The boats must be not more than ii feet over-all, can have 

 only one rudder, one centerboard, one mast, one boom, and one sail; the 

 spars must be straight; the mast must be not more than 16^2 feet above the 

 deck, the boom not more than 9 feet long, and the angle between them 

 not more than 90 degrees. On the mast there are to be markings: the top 

 of the lower marking 12 inches above the deck, the bottom of the upper 

 marking 15 feet above this; between these markings is the sail, which can- 

 not extend more than 9 feet along the boom. These are the principal limita- 

 tions. Widths can be anything and have been— from 3 feet to 5. Hulls can 

 be of any shape which the designer can conceive, made of any material 

 and of any weight. According to Knowles Pittman, Editor-Publisher of One 

 Design Yachtsman, Moth regattas have seen catamarans (but with only 



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