See the fat boats page for more on classic designs restored and sailed today and the picture archive for period photographs.

So much of the moth class history has been lost. Few people appreciated the interest there would be in old yearbooks, photos, design drawings and articles. The point came home to me seeing the National Twelve display at the dinghy show this year featuring six boats from ancient to brand new. It was truly fascinating and yet a shadow of what the moth class could do if we can find our history.

Chief librarian Adam May is cataloguing and saving what history is left. This page will list the items in his archive and where possible will have links to scanned documents.

Pleeeze, if you have old moth material in your attic, garage or rabbit hutch, send it to adam for preservation. If you want it back he will scan and return. here's the first in our series...a big thanks to simon bean for much of the material below.

yearbooks
	1973 yearbook just check the list of members at the back. Some seriously successful sailors were learning their racecraft in Moths that cost £200 new!
	1975 yearbook a big one in three parts part 1 (3MB) part 2 (1.7MB) part 3 (2.5MB) two girls on the committee a catamaran design claimed to measure and the beginning of a line that was to change design for ever - the first magnum
4MB	1976 yearbook the magnum II makes an entry that was to revolutionise the class and john claridge was clocked at an impressive 14.5 knots!
2.7MB	1978 yearbook if you think narrow hulls are a recent development take a look at chris eyre's 'back to the drawing board II'
2.7MB	1979 yearbook moth legend dave iszatt takes his first championship
2MB	1980 yearbook includes a picture of Casper De Graaf's very narrow design, which was much too heavy. the nationals was a two horse race between the iszatt brothers with mike losing out to david in the final race by one second.
1.5MB	1981 yearbook a great year for mothing with many characters: David Iszatt, John Butler, Colin Evans, Jim Prower, Robin Wood, Chris Cottrill, Peter Conway, Simon Allen, Sean Cox,Roger Angell, John Claridge, and Toby Collyer to name a few.
1.4MB	1982 yearbook Dave iszatt makes it a triple title.
2.7MB	1986 yearbook the year of roger angell (world, national and UK champion) and the magnum v and vi. hulls as light as 45 lbs! a young toby collyer is waiting in the wings.
1.8MB	1989 yearbook featuring steve reece, john claridge, mark stead, rob cambell, martin saveker, jason belben, si payne, roger angell, clive everest, toby collyer, melvyn cooper, john pierce, ian ridge and andy patterson: one or two of whom went on to be quite good sailors!
4MB	1990 yearbook featuring two pictures of si payne capsizing with hair! the dawning of the modern era with spaceframes narrowing hulls and at least one set of net tramps. featuring magnum 8, axeman, aero II, blitz I, goul 2, gentleman jim designs plus an article on wing masts by clive everest.
3.2MB	1992 yearbook UK nationals: 1st toby colyer magnum 9, 2nd roger angel magnum 10, 3rd jason belben blitz. did the boats or the sailors last longest? the axeman III, blitz mkIII and murf machIII have to be seen to be believed...
4.5MB	1994 yearbook a classic one this including 'my first year of mothing' by junior champ ????(see pic right). plus the skippy mk 1 arrives. yet another milestone design. of even bigger impact was the first T foil rudder explained in john claridge's article.
4.5MB	1997 yearbook yet more revolution with mark thorpe's article on his new sleeve luff rig. nick spence wins the worlds for the UK with mark second.
championship programmes
	1965 European Championship, Dover
	1966 World Championship, Lausanne
	1969 European Championship, Lipno
	1972 European Championship, Highcliffe
	1993 World Championship, Highcliffe
moth builders' brochures and price lists
2.8MB	john claridge's chelsea morning and shelley mk 3
0.5MB	rondar's fibreglass moth the skoll III
0.7MB 0.7MB	trott/streamlyte duflos, sprite, breakdown, twora scow and lucky sixpence,