nick flutter's moth design blog

My moth scrapbook. Following the design, development, construction and sailing, breaking, fixing, modification and sailing again of the $3000 international moth 'Blue Meanie'.

Sunday, May 13, 2018

this

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Apologies to  sailingbits.com ,  CSTexpress.com ,  KA Sail  - this old MSL13 sail looks shocking after one or two small tweaks! Thi...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Sailing with the new tramps

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The deserted rigging lawn at DPSS, a glamour winter's day in Queensland. The boat has been on the water half a dozen times now, and...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

launched

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This morning, we woke up to an unusual sight in Brisbane - sunshine! Saturday's torrential rain had subsided and Nick, Mark and I deci...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Finishing the hull - Part 6

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Just a quick post to show how the hull went together, and note a couple of tricks I picked up in the process. On the whole, the parts from ...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Wingbar corners & foil strut - Part 5

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Two of the more complicated components were always going to be the bladder moulded wingbar corners and the centreboard strut. I put off st...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

CAD to real life - Part 4

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The build is progressing well, an I apologise for getting behind on the blog, but I thought it might be neat to sum up some of the tricks I...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Deck and fairings

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With the foam moulds finished for the main hull components, it was time to do the layups and pull parts off. I did the smallest part, the f...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Part 2 - tooling up

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I was thinking of calling this port 'tooling around' because that probably best sums up what I've been doing for the last month...
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