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Fast hydrofoiling sailing with RC Multihull

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Decent breeze at Austin Lakes, Mandurah. Sailing Mini40 RC trimaran, using all four rigs, though too windy for the #1 rig.
Pleased that the boat foiled upwind a few times. Will make changes to the foils before I sail the boat again. When on starboard tack and foiling, the boat sometimes veers hard to port. Right now the port foil is perfect for lighter airs foiling, whilst the starboard foil works well in a breeze, but only on a reach, not on a broad reach. Clearly there is a fine line between good and bad settings for the foils!

More video on PerthMini40man YouTube Channel

Decavitator “Human-Powered Hydrofoil”

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On 27 October 1991, Mark Drela pedalled the human-powered hydrofoil, Decavitator, to a world-record speed of 18.5 knots (9.53 meters/second) over a 100 meter race course on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.

In the spring of 1993 the Decavitator team was awarded the DuPont prize for the fastest human-powered water craft. This prize was to be awarded to the first team to break 20 knots over a 100 meter course, or to the team with the fastest speed on record as of 31 December 1992.

Here the “Decavitator” on action
Decavitator
Here the Decavitator website, lot of infos and videos

What does water mean to you?

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Waterlust began as a handful of graduate students trying to inspire people to care about the Ocean. Today it has grown into a global community of water lovers, or as we call them #Waterlusters. Blending science, art and sport, we publish film, photography and art online that will hopefully get you thinking…

More beautiful images and inspirations on waterlust.org

Le Catamaran Techniques Avancées

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Techniques AvancéesEn 1986, deux élèves de l’ENSTA lancent l’idée de créer un catamaran révolutionnaire, basé sur le principe des foils, capable d’atteindre des vitesses jusque là inimaginables pour un voilier.
Soutenu par la Direction Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) et la Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), un projet technologique complexe va peu à peu prendre forme : concevoir un catamaran sur foils dans le but de battre le record du monde de vitesse à la voile et démontrer ainsi qu’un foiler, muni d’un gréement rigide, peut naviguer à haute vitesse de manière stable.

Read more on ensta-paristech.fr/~lecata/

AC35, Artemis Design Team updates: Adam May confirmed

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Artemis AC72 - Photo: VanderBorch
Image: Sander van der Borch

Adam May was one of the key team members along the entire shore & part of the design crew on transforming the failed floating concept of Artemis first version to a foiling AC72. The work done on such short time was truly impressive, achieving first an ‘out of the box’ fast & stable flight on AR AC45.

Read all the post on catsailingnews.com

Flying Phantom: François Gabart Takes Off

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François Gabart, 2013 Vendée Globe winner and Skipper Macif, joined last week Phantom International team during a sailing session for the optimization of the Flying Phantom OD,  the world’s first production foiling catamaran.

Back in 2013, he had already begun his return to the multihulls world with participations to the Eurocat  and to the World F18 in Grosseto – Italy, on a Sail Innovation team’s  Phantom F18 with Matthieu Vandamme , finishing respectively 3rd and 4th  in these two events.

François will be leaving the IMOCA circuit after the 2014 Route du Rhum. From 2015, he will be taking the helm of a 100-foot maxi-multihull in the colours of Macif, aboard which he will tackle a series of races and solo ocean records.

The Foiling Week takes shape. More people and program confirmed

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“The foiling week” confirms its schedule of events and the location choice, and the signing up form is available from today.

At https://old.foilingweek.com/forms/visitors-registration-form/ you will find the form to pre-register yourself. By filling in the form you’ll get access to the opportunity to be at the Forum and the round tables as a spectator, to jump onboard to test the boats and join us on the on-water events.

The list of players of the “the foiling week” gets longer every day, the forums and roundtables will be animated by:

Andrew MacPherson
Chief of Operations GC32 catamarans

Andrew McDougall
Designer and sailor Mach2 moth

Davide Tagliapietra
Schickler Tagliapietra Yacht Engineering

Edoardo Bianchi
White Dragons designer, Blacks Advanced Composites CEO

Jeremie Lagarrigue
Project manager Hydros.ch C-Class

Katherine Knight
Physiotherapy, Artemis Racing America’s Cup team

Kevin Hall
2004 USA olympic team and Team Artemis AC34 navigator

Mario Caponnetto
Wingsail Design and Head of CFD for Oracle AC33, AC34

Martin Fischer
Groupama C Class, GC32 and Flying Phantom designer

Mirco Babini
President IKA International Kitesurf Association

Mitch Booth
Catamaran Olympic medalist

Scott Babbage
President IMCA International Moth Class Association

Tom Speer
Oracle Team USA – Aero & Sail Project Leader