by Oracle Team USA
https://youtu.be/9NVY6kQ6myI
What happens when you bring together surfing legend Laird Hamilton and skipper James Spithill? Conversation quickly turns to foiling. “All water-related activities in the future will have a form of foil on them,” says Laird.
Sailor and boatbuilder Gary Baigent, from Auckland, New Zealand, send me the following info about his one-of-a-kind small trimaran, which he named “Flash Harry.” He shares in these great photos of his trimaran with us too.
Gary writes the following about Flash Harry below, and mentions another trimaran he designed called Groucho Marx … (does Gary sound like a fun sailor, or what 🙂 :
Flash Harry: 6×6 metres, a 35 years old foil trimaran – but regularly changed and updated, tensioned 4mm ply with glass, kevlar, carbon.
Continue reading on smalltrimarans.com
by AHD Boards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvBddeogeSE
Stand up paddle foil session with Bruno André on the AHD Sealion Wings and the AFS-1 Foil.
The Sealion Wings is a Windsup, combo Windsurf lightwind, Stand up paddle, windsurf foil, and SUP foil.
More infos on http://www.ahd-boards.com/fr/models/s…
by Kialoa5
Fun rip on the @Nacra 20 FCS with Pete Melvin. If a 52 year old fat guy can do this anyone can. Come join the revolution, come join the fun!
By Luca Rizzotti, Foilng Week CEO and Founder
I was in Newport for the weekend scouting for next year event: what a place and what a bunch of quirky people, as Chris Museler says. Chris invited me to come and join the Archipelago Rally and the feeling was very similar to what we experience at the Foiling Week™, loads of interesting boats , fun people and the love of sharing ideas. Great event Chris!
pictures from the event, the idea is to bring whatever dinghy you have in the backyard, the older and crazier the better
Newport… well, I am in love with it! A living heritage and a close knit community that eat and breath sailing all the time. Thanks to everyone for making me (and the Foiling Week™) feel welcome : Chris , Ned Jones , Steve Clark , Anthony Kotoun , Nat Shaver , Matt Knowles , Brad Read and Sailnewport team , Terry Nathan and IYRS , Tyson Bottenus and the super Sailors for the Sea and all the Archipelago rally participants!
by safran-sailingteam.com
After a good start in the Transat Jacques Vabre, Morgan Lagravière and Nicolas Lunven were forced to turn back home last night. The cause was a crack in the hull at the starboard foil that generated a leak. It is impossible to continue the race in this condition. Contacted this morning, the Safran duo are headed for Brest where they are expected in the middle of the night.
© Jean-Marie Liot / DPPI / Safran
On Monday night at 2020hrs (French time), Morgan Lagravière contacted the race management to inform them of damage to Safran and announce his decision to head back to the port of Brest, in Brittany. Joining by the official race radio this morning, Lagravière detailed the nature of the damage and the circumstances in which it occurred: “The foil area is damaged on the starboard side,” Lagravière said. “The damage has spread around the area and water is seeping into the boat. We quickly tacked to get the damaged section of the hull out of the water. At the time of the incident, the conditions were intense but not extreme. There were 25-knots of wind and 3-4 metres of swell. The sea was not particularly rough and we didn’t hear a particular sound.”
by catsailingnews.com
Doc sent by Holland Composites update on the G4 formatted to the post below.
Good to see the project is still alive and HC have addressed additional systems and some modifications like dagger case placement to this breakthrough piece of equipment, aka The weapon all hardcore Catsailors with the $ would have.
Looking back to that capsize now it looks so slow motion when I was expecting at the moment a spectacular frontal pitch or something like that.
The G4 was a special project since Day 1, and it continues to be an unique and niche targeted as none other big Cat out there. Lest face it, if you want to cruise only you go for a Lagoon, if you want to do offshore crossings you go for a Catana. If you want to race & foil you go for a GC32.
This G4 is One of a Kind and falls somehow in between the 3 concepts with focus on performance, with all the preparations and experience you will need to aim for that purpose.
Continue reading on catsailingnews.com
by Gitana Team
About the Mono60’ Edmond de Rothschild
A 60-foot monohull belonging to the IMOCA class, the Mono60’ Edmond de Rothschild is an on-going project. Announced in January 2014, the monohull will come into being over the course of the summer in 2015 after a year-long build. The designs of this new boat have been entrusted to a duo of naval architects: Guillaume Verdier in association with the VPLP firm. The manufacture will take place on the shores of the Golfe du Morbihan within the Multiplast yard in Vannes, south-west Brittany.
Adhering to the new class measurement in force in the Imoca class since December 2013, the Mono60’ Edmond de Rothschild will be equipped with a one-design keel and mast (identical materials, shapes and suppliers), like all the new boats. These rules were passed at the end of the last Vendée Globe to improve the safety factors and reduce the cost of these incredible machines.
The main races the Gitana Team is targeting with the Mono60’ Edmond de Rothschild are the Transat Jacques Vabre in 2015, The Transat in 2016 and of course the Vendée Globe 2016-2017.
This boat will be the eleventh craft to sport the colours of the Rothschild family and the eponymous financial group since the creation of Baron Benjamin de Rothschild’s offshore racing stable back in 2000.
Gli eventi salienti del calendario italiano della Classe Moth nel 2016 sono le regate Italia Cup, la terza edizione della Foiling Week ed il Campionato Nazionale a Punt’Ala.
Per chi volesse avvicinarsi alla formula 1 delle derive, presso la scuola xMoth, continuano le iniziative di prova del Moth nonché gli allenamenti della classe per i nuovi armatori
by Michael Aeppli
Today with Benoît Marie on Lake of Zurich – foiling the Q23 in almost nothing – even for a freshly elected vice worldchampion in C-Class Catamarans and Minitransat proto winner, a truly new and unreckoned experience – also for me, to be honest
