I found out yesterday that I made the moth bloggers cool wall and I must say I was pretty happy to be included, although I don’t get the mothcast is only for the unemployed comment …

But on that page something is missing. Where’s Rohan? Rohan’s blog must be one of, if not the most visited moth blogs online and surely it belongs on the list.

Oh and congrats to the IKEA moth crew for taking the #1 slot.

Well with the Europeans over last weekend, and having sat down and watched the video I must say that I am very impressed by the Mach 2’s.

Looking at the videos, the Mach2’s are just higher, flatter and more stable than the other boats that were filmed. The rest of the fleet looks quick, however I can’t shake the feeling that they are sailing along, but looking like Porche 911’s racing against three black Lamborghini Murcielago’s.

So is the Mach 2’s the ubér moth? In my opinon, probably not, but in those conditions, they looked very impressive, which undoubtedly suited their thinner low drag foils.

After watching I began to ask myself how close are they to achieving their design brief …

The boat had to be fast enough to win the 2009 World championships, but it must be also capable of achieving this “straight out of the box” Our goal is that the black art of “tweaking” will not apply to this boat in the way it has to other production designs, that those “in the know” do not have an advantage over your regular Jo.

Win the 2009 world championships … only time will tell. Quick straight out of the box … looks that way.

Bladerider however won’t go down without a fight. You can guarantee that they won’t be happy with being “able to stay with the two leaders at times”. So the worlds are shaping up to be a very, very interesting contest.