TIWAL 3.2-Folding Inflatable Performance Dinghy

Sailing Worlds Boat of the Year 2014. The boat is a planing dinghy that can be folded up into two bags in 20 minutes!
Heres the site: http://www.tiwal.com/
http://vimeo.com/76759937

 

Looks like fun. I am glad to see a product that can expand the sport of sailing to travelers and apartment dwellers. It won for innovation but it is a simplified version of the design NNNN showed here long ago. The price is a bit dear -the only thing I see that is high end is the rig -nice north squaretop on CF mast. The hull is shorter and wider than I would favor, I would be interested in what other designers think -does this plane earlier? I think a taller bow and a sizable combing at the mast would be easy and make sailing dryer. I get the sense that this is a swimsuit/wetsuit machine and that might limit it's appeal. The adds show children enjoying the bow but I would prefer dryer sailing and some storage forward. The other thing I desire is to be able to stow everything I carried to the beach. It appears you need a high pressure pump and the carrying bags -I would have stowage for these on board.

 

Gawd, even with fancy video work that thing looks pig dog slow