Carbon3 trimaran from Nigel Irens

[Gary Baigent]

Yeah Chris, admit I was a little grumpy, apologies; there has been a death in the family and sniping at you was something to take my mind off it, temporarily.
However this trend to put shallow angled dagger cum foils in amas is an interesting one because it is a good compromise; the platform heels in stronger gust and the daggers become more lifting foils and keep the ama up, in lighter stuff they lift less but provide good anti-derive.

[cardsinplay]

Sincere condolences from this side, Gary and don't sweat the rest. My wife and I are also at that place where our parents, aunts and uncles are departing and now it has begun that some of our age group friends are, as well. Each one has hit us in a different way. I understand those feelings.

[Doug Lord]

This is from the front page of SA quoting the Sea Cart 26 people-gives an excellent representation of how modern trimaran design is going and the value
placed on lifting foils by many companies-not just Sea Cart:

The evolution of the new SeaCart 26 continues with a revision of the ama foil design. The original fixed foil design has been updated by Marc Lombard and his team. CFD tests pitched various configurations against one another, including no foil at all, the initial design, and a new one. The result – the new higher aspect curved asymmetric foil (link to second picture) gave a significantly improved lift-to-drag ratio. Lift is good, drag is bad!

For serious thrill seeking helmsman, the lift from the foil will enable the boat to be pushed harder with confidence. Although the ama foils will be an additional extra when purchasing a SeaCart 26, it is expected that they will be popular to achieve maximum performance from the boat. This being the case they will likely be included in the class rules.
11/29/10

click on image:

[cardsinplay]

Off topic and irrelevant.

Aside from that, there is a SeaCart26 thread which, I believe, you started. May I suggest that you take your dandy Cut and Paste from Sailing Anarchy over there?

[Corley]

This boat is launched and sailing now. Thus far its achieved 23kts in 8kts windspeed impressive more info is up on their website www.carbon3.dk

[Doug Lord]

Thanks, Corley! Seems to take a lot of heel before the main hull comes close to flying-watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEeUa...layer_embedded

[oldsailor7]

Such a beautiful boat.
The very epitome of "Form follows Function"

[Corley]

They show a lot of confidence in the boat, first seatrial and already flying two hulls. The boat looks very light you can see it in the motion.

[Doug Lord]

Looks great-thanks Corley!