International Moth

Length: 3.35m (11ft 0ins)
Width: 2.25m (7ft 5ins)
Weight: various
Country: United Kingdom
Keel Type:
Centreboard
Rig Type:
Bermuda Una
Crew: 1
Trapeze: none
Sail Area: 8 sq. m
Spinnaker Type:
No spinnaker
Spinnaker Area:
0 sq.m
Designer(s):
Design Year: 1928
Builder:
Boats Built:

For wing definitions see menu

Current CVRDA Handicap Ratings
Invited wing: 85
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Any International Moth Lowrider design first built 2010 onwards)
Invited wing: 89
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Magnum 9, 9.5, Axeman 2 to 5, Pearce 6, Blitz 3, Aussie Axeman, Ghoul3 and other 1989-95 designs)
Invited wing: 87
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Magnum 9.9, Hungry Tiger, Axeman 6, 7, Skippy 1,2,3 and other 1995 onward designs)
Old wing: 91
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Magnum 8 and other designs built 1985-1989)
Old wing: 96
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Shelley and any other design of Moth built 1965-70)
Old wing: 92
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Magnum 7, Axeman 1, Blitz 1,2, Gentleman Jim and other pre 1985 designs)
Old wing: 95
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Womble, Stockholm Sprite, Poacher, Mistral and any other design of Moth built 1970-75)
Old wing: 94
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Magnum 3 and 4 and any other design of Moth built 1975-79)
Old wing: 93
(Alloy mast, Dacron sail)
(Magnum 5 and 6 and any other design of Moth built in the early 1980s)

This is an active experimental class now divided between Lowriders and Foilers. More recent boats have narrow hulls, often only 1 foot wide, and wide wings though earlier boats were more traditionally shaped. Tunnel hull scows also were developed within class rules.

 

Class Association website:
http://www.int.moth.org.uk/
Other links:
https://intmothlowriders.org/

 

 

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