Multiple World Champion and Olympic gold medallist Nathan Outteridge demonstrates the process of rigging the Moth. Of course each Moth is set up slightly differently, so this simply serves as a guide.
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Bora Gulari talks technical, looking at some of the killer technology that helped him win the International Moth Worlds in The Gorge. He also breaks some of the myths about Moths and foiling boats, such as needing to be a flyweight, and talks about the joys of turning up 'The Dial'....
2014 World Champion Nathan Outteridge talks about developments in the Moth, the things that matter, and the things that don’t....
In January 2005 Nathan Outteridge was doing the long drive from Sydney to Melbourne when he was involved in a horrific car crash. A three-time ISAF Youth World Champion, Outteridge was told he might never walk again, let alone sail or race at the highest level. Three years later he was 49er World Champion. Four years after that he became Olympic Champion in Weymouth. We interviewed Outteridge just moments after his victory in January 2008...
Charlie McKee talks about what it's like to go 'foilin' and 'wingin' at the same time, in perhaps the most hi-tech dinghy ever built - the wing-masted foiling Moth. Charlie reckons it's easier sailing with the wing than the standard soft sail, but it's still early days for wings on dinghies, so the learning curve is massive....
If you thought you need to be a flyweight to sail a foiling Moth, think again. Here's Dave Lister, a couple of kilos short of 90kg, throwing his Moth through some flying tacks (facks) and gybes.