Hey Ilan you seem pretty objective. This design came up a few days ago on the F-40 thread, excuse the battered drawing. This Newick features his new moon amas which develop some dynamic lift while reducing leeway so less daggerboard can be used on reaches. It also featured foils which are not shown. It was designed as a fast cruiser, several have been built with no crashes yet. What do you think? His 23 foot Tremelino had 3 ama options, the infamous hobie 16, a larger conventional rounded v ama and a new moon ama similar to these. Speeds went up accordingly, 16-17 for the hobie and 23+ for the new moon. Reviewers didn't manage to crash it.
I've never seen a "new moon ama", I have no idea how well it worked because simply nobody reliable has told a word about it to me.
We were very sceptic about it when we saw the first drawings; dramatic loss of volume, complicated building, creation of high stress concentrations into the structure at the joints, creation of a pivot large enough to make capsize a tri...
Nobody has copied this feature. There has been several tries of amas shaped like low profiles foils; none gave results. Not enough lift, but big drag.
However I have a negative opinion by Newick himself...
I've joined the PDF of an article about Newick, published in 2010 in the mag Professional Boat Builder. In page 8 of the PDF there is an interesting sentence about the new moon amas;
"He later introduced “new moon” amas, with convex outboard sides to
produce similar dynamic lift, but has since moved away from these amas
because they require speed to work properly.
To keep the noses up at slower speeds, especially downwind when hit with a gust, he’s reverted to fuller amas with almond-shaped sections."
Put in plain English beyond the euphemism, that means that the "new moon amas" were a failure admitted by the designer. Not enough lift with big drag at low speed. I'll add and structural failure insured. And he went to bigger amas in the style of Irens in 1987. Look at the pic of Ocean Surfer, a very interesting oceanic 40 feet, second of the F40 of the Ostar 1988...Note the small self tacking jib, the big mainsail controlled by a good hardware, the rounded deck amas and the (normal) torsion of the arms induced by the leeward ama when pressed into the water. The ama is horizontal while passing the wave and its volume is aligned with the projection of the centre of effort of the sails. Beautiful.
I would like to measure a Tremolino running 23 knots over at least 1/4 of NM, knowing its weight, main hull shape, and rig and I'll swear that I'll become a worshipper of the Eastern Bunny.
A good reason of doubt that the best top Tornado with an Olympic crew (bronze medal) I have measured at Brest was 24 knots over 1/2 NM, so a humble Tremolino going almost as fast means that a Mustang can bit the *** of a Testa Rossa, or a 650 cc touring bike is as fast as a 750 GSRX Suzuki...17 real knots on 1/4 or 1/2 NM will be very, very nice and I would be very happy for the owner. 23 knots means flying on the ama...
These claims are exaggerated like the sizes and weights claimed by some anglers. We used to measure the speed of multis at the Week Speed of Brest and the real ciphers were always far from the claims, even with a 30 knots wind and flat sea. Piver announced in 1965 30 knots with his tris
. Nobody could measure it. And so on. Curiously with the last generation of GPS, the perfect tool for measuring speeds, these claims are now rarer than Siberian tigers and honest politicians.
Ilan Voyager, Gary Baigent and pogo !! Do you want turn my life completly upside down ? 
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