As a matter of fact the Australian Moth nationals 2005 were won by a NON-Foiling moth and yes Rohan Veal was in the nationals and did very well, he became second. And only two weeks later Rohan became world-champion. And we are talking full foiling here.

Dave Carlson has been designing and building Foiling A-cats for many years now and nobody paid any attention. Rightly so as he hasn't been able to make it work well enough to beat conventional A-cats. Now the Moth class comes along and everybody is in a uproar.

The only setup that I know off, and I know alot about boat designs, and that works is the Catri aided bruce-foiling trimarans and the ORMA boat. Both of which have the foils much further forward than the A's have right, they have a much higher width to length ratio, they have to go forward and pull up one board and lower the other at tacks and gives, ans also the angle on those setups use is banned by the current F16 rules.

Also the inward canted boards used on the A's are almost vertical as the outward canted hulls give an optical illusion that suggest that they are far more canted inward.

Lets calm down.

Wouter