When the FD makes more progress I'd like to post results and get help. Can you tell me how I can open a new thread and get the attention of the...
[ATTACH] Here is a shot of the first setup. Now the foils are mounted on arms that come out another meter for more righting. I made the boat look...
I think this is the future. You can add foils to any dinghy. The foils add lots of righting moment so the SA can be much larger. The leeward...
Light shappie I really like sharpies but every sharpie I find is heavy. My background is in building very fast beach multis. I have a Tornado...
This would therefore limit the maximum size hull which can be built, say 30ft max. Usually the radius of the curves are greater the larger the...
Excellent question: How do you work out what shapes you want so it floats where you want and carries the load you want etc? This is the...
I don't have pictures of the process, but here is a boat that was built in about 25 hours using this technique cobbled with lots of parts. The...
Tortured plywood I've built several hulls very quickly with great results using thin plywood and no framing. You cut the sides of the hulls...
If you include Monitor as a yacht, I'll submit A-scows as the fastest of all around a course in a bay or on a lake.
Someone had a sailboard based boat like this design with a suspension a few years ago in England. Does anyone know how that boat did? I only...
Salt Flats Chris, You live a few miles from Bonneville! Do you live in Wendover? Anyway Bonneville would be a great place to set the sailing...
Need speed classifications I read on a French site, some day, some one is going to cover a parking lot with plastic and break all records with a...
Tri-skiff design I tried a few designs like this. The goal was to have the interior room of a monohull, with the performance of a skiff and the...
Smyth's amas The video and times show how fast Smyth's boat is. I hope my new boat proves to be fast like this in light air and that it foils...
Regarding "foiling as the future", I have to admit that I sailed as a kid and am now just getting back into it in my later years -- so I am a...
air matresses Funny you mention air mattresses because the new boat is designed to fit 2 twin air mattresses perfectly between the beams --...
That's a good question that I have been thinking about a lot. I'd like to be able to reduce cabin windage at a moments notice -- so maybe it will...
Foiling tri Thanks. With "Precarious!" version 1, I just copied Hydroptere; otherwise I would have put the amas and foils further forward too....
I have just completed a 24ft hydrofoiling tri. The design objective was to use lots of production parts, to rig in 15 minutes from trailer to...
