Electronic Foil Control

[Chris Ostlind]

I know that more than a few of you read the postings over at Sailing Anarchy regarding the world of all things foiling. But for those of you who do not, a fairly huge potential development was revealed today in the form of an electronic foil control system that is being developed by Clive Everest.

The SA thread from which the revelation took form is here:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/ind...howtopic=79035

This thread is one of Doug Lord's topics regarding his penchant for midship wands. Other than the very few prototype craft, where one of these midship systems is actually installed, the foiling world has not adopted the ideology behind the system's use and instead, continues to use the bow mounted wand setup that you see on virtually all the Moths with foils.

Over the course of that thread, the idea was put forth as to the credibility of an electronic foil control system with lots of back and forth discussion related to the potential. This resulted, today, with the introduction by Clive Everest, of his developmental work in this very area of viable electronic control for foil surfaces while sailing.

The very end of the link shown above will point you to the work done by Clive in this regard, complete with the all-important photos to substantiate his claims. An open invitation to Clive has been given and I hope he makes a visit here to discuss his work in progress.

Chris Ostlind
Lunada Design
www.lunadadesign.com