Since last summer when Oliver Moore sailed the boat in the Australian Champs and placed 4th, (while I sailed in the concurrent Moth State Champs), the rig has been refined and now we can flatten the sail and independantly control twist. A great asset when gybing. And now my gybe success rate has increased alarmingly. Thanks to a lot of effort fromSail maker Ben Gemmell.

We sailed the Winter inParadise regatta a few weeks back and I managed plenty of safe downwinds and stayed unexpectedly close to the 12 ft skiffs and ahead of the cherubs in what was more like their type of course, upwind and straight downwind.

The plan is now to get as much seat time as possible up to the Canoe Worlds at McCrae in January 08. It will be hard though to not sneak out on my moth occasionally.