Moth Swatting

The most anticipated Moth world championship is attracting the world's best like Moths to a...(oh don't go there)

My attestation that the elite end of sailing really is in the rudest of health continues with a pesky insect that has been dominating a strange part of my brain like a ticking countdown. Perhaps the class should be renamed the International Mosquito because once bitten it’s an itch that goes on for years. As it is, the International Moths simply chew an increasingly large hole in the participants’ wallets but for the past 15 years or so its World Championship has ascended to be the trump card at the interview stage for just about every America’s Cup or SailGP player.