A comprehensive article from Kimball Livingstone on Sail Magazine: if foiling the future of the industry?
Remember learning that the basic motions of a boat are roll, pitch and yaw? Now add “heave,” the nautical engineering term for the lift of a hydrofoil, or “foil,” as we seem destined to call them… Read more on sailmagazine.com
…His current target: The Nacra F20 carbon, a 20-foot catamaran with hulls designed by Morelli & Melvin, the team that worked on the America’s Cup AC72. The cat is a feat of engineering and design…
Source: Scuttlebutt Sailing News
So you want to ride a kite foilboard but you’re no Johnny Heineken? Here’s Gabe Brown taking the plunge, literally. Thanks to Steve Bodner for this nugget.
Happy Birthday Ben Paton the UK Moth fleet Leader and 4th best mothie of the world in the 2013
Just when we were getting our head around the idea of racing boards with kites around marks, the leaders of the kiteboard course racing movement have now elevated the game… literally.
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