Safety Tips
Sailing your Mach2 Moth – Safety tips
We want you to understand safety as it applies to our product and to equip yourself in order to minimise any risk. Please read on.....
1. Take care to always to wear a buoyancy aid, it's mandatory when racing but in some parts of the world it is not a legal requirement when cruising. However it is sensible to get into the habit of wearing one at all times. Not only will it keep you afloat if things go wrong, but (although they are not designed for it) most buoyancy aids also provide valuable impact protection.
2. Wear a good wetsuit. Modern full-length long arm wetsuits are very good at keeping you warm and also absorbing minor impacts that a sailor can be exposed to. Remember it's one thing to be warm as you work the boat hard, but another to be warm for extended periods of time in the water. Be aware of your surroundings, and invest in the correct kit to keep you warm in all conditions.
3. Try to always sail with a training partner, or failing that make sure someone at your club is aware that you are going sailing. It is also a good idea to take a mobile phone or a VHF radio in an "Aquapac" type waterproof case out with you so you can call for help if you need it.
4. When you are working hard, dehydration can occur quickly. Always make sure you take enough liquid out on the water with you. Cycling style drinks bottle can easily be secured to the toe strap with a piece of elastic.
5. Get in the habit of checking your boat over before you go sailing, replace worn parts and ropes as necessary. It's easier on the land than on the water but if a rope does break, make sure you have some handy lengths of spare rope and a few shackles in the pocket of your life jacket.
6. Sail within your ability. Do not take risks, and if it's too windy or too rough for you, be sensible and go and do something else. There will always be another day
7. Make sure you know the forecast; many a sailor has been caught out by not understanding the true wind speed and/or sea state. Offshore winds for example can look quite benign from the land, but in fact be very strong at the sailing area, and of course with an offshore wind if things go wrong you wont be blown back to the shore either...
8. Consider wearing some form of head protection. Many Moth sailors are now wearing water sports helmets. Moths are capable of very high speeds. This means that you are capable of hitting something at very high speeds too.
9. Finally remember your safety is the responsibility of the skipper. In a Moth, that is you. As if you didn't have enough things to think about!
Mach2 Latest & Quicklinks
The New Mach2.2!- Sailing rock stars and their Mach2's
- Mach2.2 Ride Height Adjuster kit
- Mach 2.2 Gearing Adjuster
- We Now Stock Bladerider Spare Parts
- Mach2's Dominate At Garda
- Mach2 Sailors Shine At The Olympics
- Glen Ashby - Why I bought a Mach2
- KA Sail's Latest Design - MSL16
- Nathan Outteridge Says
We’ve done some development! Yes the Mach2 (we call it the 2.2) has got even better.
But wait, hang on!
Before we tell you all about it let’s just talk about Moth development. It may come as a bit of a surprise for those new to Moth sailing, but Moths have been going for nearly 85 years! Yes that’s right, and in the old days, when you needed a new boat every year development was rife! Moth sailors used to emerge from their cellar or garage, blinking in the light, ashen grey and possibly newly single.
Still, they were quite possibly clutching the key to the next chapter in Moth evolution. Some of course weren’t but they were pioneering times. And with the shiny polished hydrofoiling boats you see now, an onlooker would be forgiven for thinking that the development is quite stable, and compared to those big leaps, has almost stopped.
But it hasn’t. Read more...
After a year of prototyping we have worked out a much better way of controlling your height abovethe waves. This custom titanium / brass system provides lightweight, high strength and low friction- no slip system to prevent jamming and rope tangling to increase ease of use even in the hairiest top mark rounding.
The system is the same length as the current Ride Height Adjuster allowing you to just fit the new system to any existing Mach2. Like the current RHA, it has fine adjustment (0.8mm per turn) keeping the pulley system simple. More info here
From very early in the development of the Mach2, the intention was to have the gearing at the front of the boat adjustable from the wings. (This is why all Mach2’s have a utility tube.) We wanted to adjust at the front as this also adjusts the angle of the wand due to the offset of the adjuster nut.
This new system not only reduces slop, flex and the possibility of the adjuster screw bending, it also is easily adjustable on the fly from the wings! The low friction.............
Click HERE to read more
We scoured the world for stocks of Bladerider parts and bought them to one place. Not only do we have stocks of original BR parts, but we have some refurbished parts too. More importantly we have some items that are made to an improved design, or with better material than the original parts. Now you can keep your BR going for more years of enjoyment.
Mach2 is our main business, but we believe keeping old BR's in a race ready state will help grow the class.
Bladerider spares - Click HERE
Mach2 won it's fourth consecutive World Championship, whilst KA Sail secured it's eighth. We were very pleased to see 92 of the 117 competitors chose to sail Mach2's at the event, whilst 96 chose to use a sail from the KA range!
Congratulations to Josh McKnight on winning a hard fought battle at the top of the leaderboard
Check out all the results, reports and footage - Click HERE
The 2012 London Olympics has seen some incredible competition amongst all the sailing classes, with Mach2 sailors dominating. Australian's Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen won Gold at Weymouth in the 49er Class from second place and fellow Mach2 sailor, New Zealander, Peter Burling. Australian Laser sailor Tom Slingsby won Gold with an impressive regatta, where he had the event all but won coming into the medal race.
To read more - Click HERE 
'It has been something that I really wanted to have a go at. The lure of sailing a flying machine that looks like so much fun to sail upwind and downwind, that offers so many new challenges along with supreme efficiency and performance, has really interested me for quite a while now.
'The opportunity to purchase a Mach2 foiling moth and have a new personal sailing challenge has been an exciting thought and one that I am sure will make me re-think all that I have learnt in the past. To read the full story - Click HERE
Check out the brand new MSL16 which features include:
- Complete redesign from the previous MSL10 and 13
- Wider luff pocket
- Combination of soft and light materials for the pocket
- Shape moved forward and down to reduce drag /increase power
- Gap between sail and boom closed.
- Extra cam and batten in at the bottom of sail
- Suits medium mast/soft with high forestay for improved response to the vang and Cunningham.
- Brand new cams for better entry profile
Probably the very best skiff sailor on the planet, current Moth and 49er World Champion Nathan Outteridge has this to say about his Mach2
"The Mach 2 is an amazing piece of engineering, I have sailed many boats over the last few years and my Mach2 is by far my favorite boat to sail or should I say fly! With out a doubt this is the future of sailing." 
