VOILAVION, foiling and tilting rig catamaran

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http://www.catsailingnews.com/2016/08/voilavio-by-crhistophe-launay.html

I'm sure Doug Lord has referenced them a few times before, but I thought they deserved a separate discussion thread. Pretty exciting and relatively inexpensive experimentation.

 

Voilavion

Thats a great find ,Brian-I don't remember seeing them before and they're not in "New Catamaran Foilers"(yet).
Update: must have seen them on another forum because I remember a discussion about the dual wands they show in some pictures.....

 

There tilting rig looks pretty neat. And I like their wishbone boom,...need to make that work on my non-rotating mast.

 

Waterboard Foiling

Hey Doug, how about waterboard foiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaYhyeGxYoA

 

Thats pretty cool-thanks!

 

There were loads of photos of this boat at Foiling Week -90% of setting up and a few sailing.

It kind of has too many neat ideas. It appears to be a big hassle to set up, and the pictures sailing all look like broad reaching. The sail is never flat and close hauled.

 

Looking at the angle of the sheet and the angle of the boom it seems pretty clear that they can't really pull any leech tension. Twist will be a fixture until they fix up that oversight. That might explain the preference for downwind shots too.