Gitana 17-100' Trimaran Foiler-Launch 7/17/17

This spectacular boat will be launched in four days........More here: Gitana : Offshore racing stable createdBaron Benjamin de Rothschild http://www.gitana-team.com/en/
Design by Guillaume Verdier and Team with the Gitana Design Office.

THE MAXI EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD SPECS

Start of construction: October 2015
Launch: 17 July 2017
+ 170,000 man-hours, including 35,000 hours of studies
+ /- 40 people on average over the 20-month build

LOA: 32 metres (105')
Beam: 23 metres ( 75')
Weight (displacement): 15.5 tonnes
Air draught: 37 metres (121')
Downwind sail area: 650m2 (6993 sq.ft.)
Upwind sail area: 450m2 (4841 sq.ft.)
Appendages / Number: 6 - Type: T-foil float rudders (2), L-shaped foils (2), daggerboard on the central hull (1), T-foil rudder on the central hull (1)

Naval architects: Team Verdier in collaboration with the Gitana design office
Constructors: C3 Technologies (bulkheads and appendages), Re Fraschini (foils), Lorima (mast), Multiplast (platform), Persico (cuddy)

 

Thanks for the news.I will be looking out for the launching and any news of the boat's performance.

 

You're welcome-lots more to come.........

 

Well, the boat was launched-but NO FOILS!! I was looking forward to this -very disappointing......Gitana 17 is going from where it was launched to Lorient , presumably , for outfitting and rigging.

 

No pictures yet but I found this little nugget recently added which confirms the daggerboard will use a lifting foil similar to Maserati:
GuillaumeVerdier, naval architect
“The initial idea was to design the first oceanic boat capable of flying with unfailing reliability. There are trim tabs on all the appendages. The central daggerboard has one too, a lifting surface in the form of a skate wing in order to increase stability still further when heeling and rolling. That is a huge amount for Sébastien (Josse) to trim. He's going to have to go at it in stages, learn how far is reasonable enough and also what hand to play when the seas are too heavy. There were 80 of us within Team New Zealand answering these questions. As such, we'll need to be patient and discuss ideas in depth to reveal the boat's true potential.”

 

And for those that never read the "Planing Trimaran" thread-or who did and weren't convinced:
Flat-bottomed hull and floats: As is the case on the America's Cup craft, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is equipped with three planing hulls with inverted bows and flat bottoms, so as to increase the ability to fly and provide excellent stability in heavy seas. The central hull and floats have a high freeboard for improved protection at sea.

 

The photos from Ultim Boat show a daggerboard T foil and the T rudder on the main hull has a flap, you can see them here: Ultim Boat https://www.facebook.com/pg/UltimBoat/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1100943366673905

 

The text says it explicitly:
"une dérive courte avec un plan porteur, "
Seems that the moth way gains adepts.

 

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Thanks ,Corley-I wouldn't have thought to look there..... Big difference between this and Maserati since this boat was designed from scratch to use the daggerboard foil-going to be an incredible boat!

picture by Yvan Zedda

 

More pictures from Scuttlebutt/Gitana-I can't copy them-a good shot of the lifting foil on the daggerboard: Launch Maxi Edmond de Rothschild - Gitana : Offshore racing stable created by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild http://www.gitana-team.com/en/p-385/photos-launch-maxi-edmond-de-rothschild

 

Guillame Verdier on the design features of Gitana 17: Yachting World https://www.facebook.com/yachtingworldmagazine/videos/vb.111913865558561/1425355727547695/?type=2&theater

 

Thanks Corley! He mentions the discovery of a "self-stabilizing foil" in 2010 or 2011 when he was at TNZ and says that this boat will use that type of ama foil-like an AC 72! Mentions that it is a large foil-larger than any other boat. I'm still looking for pictures but none of the ama foil so far.....
UPDATE: A really fantastic interview-just watched for the second time and there is a lot of detail.

Yachting World https://www.facebook.com/yachtingworldmagazine/videos/vb.111913865558561/1425355727547695/?type=2&theater

 

Oh, brother....I can't find any pictures of the ama foils.They must be late-and/or the Team wants to sail without them first?

 

Gitana 17: le mast--


But, but where are the ama foils??

 

A photo of the float foil