That is extremely cool. I sailed Fireballs and a Contender as a youth. Sailing has progressed farther in the last 40yrs than it did in the previous 2000yrs! Thank Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the foil.
If this was the sailing at Olympic games then there would be a much bigger audience. I use to sail a fiber glass scow Moth in the seventies. This is awesome.
Looks like the Moth is faster. Not sure how that's possible since the cat has more sail area. It might be because of the extra weight and two additional foils causing drag. The Moth was in a little bad air but then went around the S-class. I bet the Moth is easier to sail than the A-class and much less expensive but I'm a cat kind of guy so it would be a blast to try out a Moth and see how I'd like it.
I think the cat is spilling excess wind through the leech. Pretty typical of an unstayed mast. Similar to a Laser. The cat looks like it could do with more crew weight to keep it flat. Surprised how fast the moth is by comparison, then again looks like both boats are sailing up-wind, not favoured by cats.
@@ianrawlings2546 Cat sailors with some experience will spill excess wind by twisting the sail like this, but more advance one will sheet in even more to lose power by flattening the sail instead, this will induce less drag and way more speed. You can still depower the sail using the traveler but first comment is right, the sail is way too loose. (I'm not english speaker so i'm sorry if i dont have the right english sailing vocabulary)
@@eleutheregay3056 if it were an actual race im pretty sure the moth would smoke the A-class upwind because it can point high and foil, but they'd be similar downwind because the A-class has a much larger sail area.
That is extremely cool. I sailed Fireballs and a Contender as a youth. Sailing has progressed farther in the last 40yrs than it did in the previous 2000yrs! Thank Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the foil.
Looks like the ability of the moth to tilt the the rig and whole boat to windward is making noticable advance
If this was the sailing at Olympic games then there would be a much bigger audience. I use to sail a fiber glass scow Moth in the seventies. This is awesome.
Pointing higher and going faster - the stability of the cat speaks to the mere-mortal in me though 😆
Wow, very cool, once the Moth got out of the bad air there was a visible difference.
I was thinking that , he's sat right in the turbulent wind and still keeping up
Great video! thanks! and thank you for not putting music and leaving the sound of the wind!
19000 views and no one even said "wow that's cool?" because that is cool.
thats cool! we need more of these videos!
Looks like the Moth is faster. Not sure how that's possible since the cat has more sail area. It might be because of the extra weight and two additional foils causing drag. The Moth was in a little bad air but then went around the S-class. I bet the Moth is easier to sail than the A-class and much less expensive but I'm a cat kind of guy so it would be a blast to try out a Moth and see how I'd like it.
The moth has always been a quick boat (I had one) and with a foil almost unbeatable!
Makes me miss my windsurfer...
Wow thats cool
THE MOTH 100% WON and it looked the best doing it too ;)
it looks to me that the cat has its sail rather loose, a lot of twist, mainsheet is nowhere near `in` , so I think the cat could be a lot faster.
Maybe. also seems like a lot of trouble keeping her on her feet, so the twist could be spilling the over-power, like reefing a keelboat.
I think the cat is spilling excess wind through the leech. Pretty typical of an unstayed mast. Similar to a Laser. The cat looks like it could do with more crew weight to keep it flat. Surprised how fast the moth is by comparison, then again looks like both boats are sailing up-wind, not favoured by cats.
@@ianrawlings2546 Cat sailors with some experience will spill excess wind by twisting the sail like this, but more advance one will sheet in even more to lose power by flattening the sail instead, this will induce less drag and way more speed. You can still depower the sail using the traveler but first comment is right, the sail is way too loose. (I'm not english speaker so i'm sorry if i dont have the right english sailing vocabulary)
@@Red4staire You did great Red. Vocab. was on point.
Bit quicker then my old Idelong
Moth killed...
how does altitude control work on this?
nice video! it's missing the true winner... the kiter! 😃
The a cat looks much better
yes.... im sain the moth won there
moth k
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sorry, moth killed him!
Not at all. He's going on the left to create apparent wind but he continue to go straight like the A-Class he won't pass him.
@@eleutheregay3056 if it were an actual race im pretty sure the moth would smoke the A-class upwind because it can point high and foil, but they'd be similar downwind because the A-class has a much larger sail area.
Moth was definitely faster, it struggled during the 80 first percents of the video only because it was in bad air, behind the a class