Upgrading a Foiling Moth Episode 6 "What's a Molly?"

Join me, Ryan the Rogue Rigger on my journey of restoring a Mach 2 International Moth that I just picked up. I plan on upgrading it with all the modern systems with out breaking the bank and then I will take you along for the steep learning curve of learning to sail this Tasmanian devil of a boat. I have dreamed of owning one of these since they first came out back in 2008 when I got to take one for a spin. It was an unreal experience/feeling that I have been chasing ever since. At the time they were crazy expensive to buy and not in my budget. These days they are still crazy expensive to buy new, now there are a lot of older moths on the second hand market that are relatively affordable (Less than a Laser/ILCA in this case). For those of you who don't know, an International Moth is a single handed 11 foot long hydro foiling sailboat. These boats literally fly over the water on two hydrofoils doing speeds 2-3 times the speed of the wind. In this episode I build a "Molly," a Moth Dolly. After my first sail I discovered that I needed a better way to launch my moth. After building the Molly I wanted to go sailing again and finally get some foiling in. Unfortunately Mother Nature has decided its not Moth sailing season yet. Its been pouring rain for the past couple weeks and not ideal conditions for learning to foil. Not to worry, I sail on San Francisco Bay and summer is coming, so plenty of windy foiling days to come! I did want to show some sailing in this video, so here are few highlights from racing on the Farr 400 last weekend in the pouring rain. As well I through in some footage from our 505 tuning session a couple weekends ago. Enjoy!