As you may have noticed I have taken some absence from mothing and blogging. To tell you the truth Kiel was my last regatta last year. Why? Because my company frankly just rolled right over me. We are all working really hard and it is a lot of fun. The only problem is that mothing was killed along the way. But this will change now, as I decided that there will be 2 pillars in my life for the next two years: mothing and studdex.com. (maybe there will be a third pillar if a cute girlfriend crosses my way).
So I am back and I want to start this blog again with looking back: Last year in Kiel Jenz Zurmühl got out on the water to set up his moth. That day was pretty windy and shifty. Jenz got out on his fastacraft moth and scored an unbelievable 25.8 knots on his Garmin!!!
Unfortunately this record had its price. Jenz killed his center board foil. For some reason the wand mechanism got stuck which caused the flap to stay in the same position while Jenz accelerated. What happened was that the foil got ripped right off the centerboard. Unfortunately I do not have any pictures but the whole centerboard looked horrible. Each layer of carbon was just separated from each other. Thus it was quite difficult to pull the centerboard out of the centerboard case.
So Jenz got his personal record but unfortunately wasn’t able to participate in a single moth race. Fortunately a Hobie sailor still needed a crew so Jens wasn’t stuck on shore.
On the very last day one sailor came over to our moth camp and handed Jenz the lost foil. Someone had found it on the water and knew that it had to belong to a moth. Finding the sailor was an easy task, as the German fleet is still a lot smaller than it should be. Jens had planned to rebuild the foil, a very difficult task if you ask me. I got no idea if he has been successfull with repairing it. I will find out during the first regattas this year.
Welcome back Felix.All the best,Doug