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Now I'm really lost however, 29'er not a skiff? Sailing Anarchy as a factual resource? seriously? The thing is a pie tin just like the others


SA is frequented by many true Skiffies and they are quick to jump on anybody that wants to use the term skiff as marketing BS.

Skiff is a class with its bloodlines tied back directly to the old traditional Waterman's boats of the 1800s and earlier. It is not about performance, even though they are at the pinical. It is about history.

If the skiff was not the pinical of monos, than new (not so)High Performance boats would be calling themself something else.

Imagine if in 50 years from now, every boat, any size and spec that adopted hydrofoils, started calling themself 'Moths'. Do you think the Moth class would be offended. Hell yes.

Anyway, this is not a thread for the 'What is a Skiff' debate, so we'll move on.


So a "skiff" is not a boat configuration - it's a measure of the testosterone onboard?

They way the terminology is used over here is certainly different. If a boat measured in to the moth class rule, then yeah, it's a moth. The moth is a boat defined by class rules the same way an F18 is. Moth is a "dingy" (I guess?) and an F18 is a "catamaran" as is an I14 a "skiff", etc.

I guess the problem is that folks in Aussy land consider the term "skiff" to not be a reference to the confiuration of the boat as we do in the US and in Wouter-land.

Jake Kohl