one mast), scows, dinghies, arc bottoms; flat, deep, and shallow, very wide 

 and very narrow, hull designs, but no hydrofoils so far. 



At one time hiking boards were used and some boats were narrowed to 

 3 feet; but a majority of Moth skippers felt that the hiking board would 

 turn them all into acrobats, so the hiking board was ruled out. Some Moths 

 have rotating masts. One fellow tried a rotating daggerboard which could 

 be adjusted when sailing, allowing a boat to slip to windward or leeward 

 without seeming to change course. 



The sky is almost the limit, so when we give the "vital statistics" of a 

 Moth, we'll stick to one of the more conventional, typical models. 



While Moth designers are many, the original designer and founder of 

 the class was Captain Joel Van Sant of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, 

 on the Pasquotank River. The original Moth was a scow-like boat of ii 

 feet which was built of juniper wood, so he called her the Jumping Jupiter. 

 Before she was tuned up, she seemed to flit back and forth, so he called 

 her a Moth. This was in 1929 and the sporty little craft caught the at- 

 tention of other builders along the Pasquotank. Later, various yacht clubs 

 on the Atlantic Seaboard took up the boat and the Moths spread far and 

 wide until it is now estimated that there are three thousand in the world, 

 including eighteen hundred to twenty-five hundred in the United States. 

 Principal areas of sailing are in New Jersey, Florida, Holland, France, Bel- 

 gium, Italy, Germany, Portugal. Captain Van Sant's Jumping Jupiter 

 started something. 



The National Moth Boat Association, which became in 1935 the Inter- 

 national Moth Class Association, was organized in 1932, with Joel Van Sant 

 as President. The Secretary (United States) is Benjamin H. B. Koons, Jr. 

 ( 854 Buck Lane, Haverf ord. Pa. ) . There are many professional builders or 

 importers, and probably hundreds of amateurs. Consult the Secretary or 

 Yachtings Boat Owners Buyers Guide for their names and addresses. Prices 

 range from $550 to $890 new, from $100 to $400 used. No kits are sold but 

 "you can build one yourself for about $500." 



VITAL STATISTICS (typical only): L.O.A. 11' (this is definite); 

 waterline 10%' to 11'; beam 3I/2' to 5'; draft without daggerboard or 

 rudder 4" to 6", with D.B. 2y' to 3'; sail area about 72 sq. ft.; weight 72 to 

 125 lbs.; trailable; crew usually one, except in hard blows. 



NAPLES SABOT 



This is a one-design 7'io'' cat-rigged pram dinghy, originated in 1946 in 

 Naples, California. Construction is of wood or fiber glass. Designed by Mc- 



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