I had another sail of the canoe yesterday. We had 4 moths out from St George and Bruce's 16ft moth on steroids as well. It is like a scaled up moth with 3m wide wings from which he trapezes, 500mm wide hull and a giant 12msq single sail on a rotating wing mast, some weapon.

It was only light when we launched. The Hollow Log was much faster than the moths in sub foiling winds, but when Bruce came out he was marginally faster upwind in less than 10 kts. Neither of us were fully powered up, but were going upwind faster than everything else.

We sailed around to the River club who had an opening race for the 16s. By this time the wind was a touch over 10 and Luka was foiling his moth well. The three of us followed the 16s away from their start.

In two short laps Luka had caught and passed all the skiffs, Bruce and I had a close race just behind the slowest skiffs, gaining upwind and losing downwind. The Hollow Log proved faster upwind than Bruce, while he gained a little downwind. After two laps I waited for him and we did another lap in slightly less wind and we stayed closer together.

On the way home we both commented that it was good to have another boat of similar performance to tune and race against. At least until he finishes his new 16.

More time on the boat. No dramas, no swims, nice speed.