Warren Bailey Mach I Mach II

The ""Mach I" (white bottom, varnished deck) was designed and built by Warren C. Bailey in 1954. She has a sixty inch beam, fifteen inches of Vee in the bottom and weighs 78 lbs. She is constructed from 3/16th Luan marine mahagony with spruce sides, keel, deck framework, stringers and spars. On July 23, 24 and 25, 1954 Warren won the Antonia Trophy International championship, taking first in all five heats of the race. In the final heat he was six minutes and forty-five seconds ahead of the second place moth. (Lewis Twitchell was second in "Flying Saucer," Don Lapp was third in "Wee One.") After the win, Warren had several requests to build boats to this design, which he declined. Harry Cates then built four copies of the Mach I, which had a fiber-glass bow section. These boats went to New Jersey. Harry next built a number of boats to this design but with three inches less Vee and rocker in the bottom. This latter design, with three inches less Vee, is the moth now known as the Cates Florida Moth. Warren also built the black "Mach II" in these photographs to the Cates design for someone who wanted the less tender Cates, and then bought it back later for Carolyn Bailey to race. Because the Mach II has less Vee, its was not such a chore to get the plywood to take the appropriate shape at the bow and so it was not necessary to have a false fiberglass bow, as with the Mach I. Warren sold the Mach I in 1954 or 1955 and bought her back around 1959 or 1960 for George to race. At the time these photographs were taken, George was racing the Mach I, and his sister Carolyn was racing the Mach II. If it was really blowing, Warren would race the Mach I and George would race the Mach II.