Hydrofoil Windsurfing

[TheViralSBK]

It would be really great if the fin carrying the hydrofoil was made of transparent material

[strangehands89]

this is just brilliant

[cesdevilallonga]

kind a shit ! lol but still interesting!!

[seirdo]

It doesn't look like as much fun.

[Prouddemocrate]

look at 0:49 !

[Eliasandersson1]

This is sick :) i Love it

[mrgribble]

why isn't it tipping forward?

[CactusJackSlade]

Way smoother ride though!

[moeterbank]

<- windsurfing

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

[eMMedeArg]

WTF? :D amazing sport! ♥

[hashima777]

hoow long could u actualy hydro wind surf? any records?

[ljlassi]

Hydrofoil in surfboard isn't a good idea because surfboard planes perfectly without hydrofoils and they make boathandling difficult.

[kreativschwimmschule]

wow!!! ich habe auch windsurfvideos im Kanal

[jamesdewer]

How do you jibe something like that? Can you imagine kicking the blade while waterstarting? Ouch!

[arnaudp44]

good ^^

[BeneKuett]

gay



[Jeffzpimp]

umm Jesus we have a bug u forgot to fix

[terry1919]

now that is hauling some serious ass :-)

[windsurfaddict1]

shit

[SOFTAIRBULLET]

Now THAT is cool shizzle

[cravesloot27]

aladin and the flying surfboard

[banny998]

id like to see him turn...



[snelso80]

Cool, you dont even get wet o_O

[boracayhotels]

Wow great. what is that stick below in the ski board? Please watch my videos <3 <3 <3

[s07006]

Although it looks very cool and is fun to do, the topspeed is not as high as on a regular board. A moth however is way faster than a comparable sized sailboat.

[Jontium1]

Do i get a complimentary helicopter to create wind for me :P

[xAfroLoverx]

Amazing I want it!!!

[rogerpaolo]

I think that he cannot go fast as the hydrofin can't cope with lateral force. So you have to use a smaller sail and be slower. Still looks pretty cool though...

[yoni143]

@dpcnull are you stupid?

[ramans11]

@yoni143 hehehe

[BlueHawkGR]

How does that happen?

[dpcnull]

Nice helicopter sound effects you added there.

[hcavsailor]

what a wank - the std board is faster

[romaodessa]

бля, как это?

[artem911]

@romaodessa

veneezu pad daskoi tam est teepa podvodnaia krilo. todzhe concept kak na samalotye

[guilleory]

Isn't it supposed to help the surfer to go faster? It does not seem really quick and in fact the other guy overpasses him with a common board

[damned1997]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how is he doing it!!!??

[MRsamulito]

@damned1997 the fins edge is like an airplane wing, and that makes the

whole board ... flying :D

[ranjasgel]

that shit cna split shakrs?

[TheGibsonsg1]

N-I-C-E

[lukassnakeman]

hes hover boarding!

[soulridercom]

Wow....------ Soulrider com your trendsport community for windsurfing and boardsport



[Jesus45U]

Dang .. that is cool on so many levels. :)

[jamesdl00]

Hydrofoil on a windsurfer is slower than a planing setup. Lots more drag.

[Saylina95]

Wow! *__*

He's flying :) *smile*

[JorgenPlayerSpecial]

WOW!

[maurotyler]

the chopper is not providing the wind... the last half portion of the video, the sail is completelly the other way around... plus the shifting winds would knock you down, or make you drop the sail... It's maui, they have wind to spare..

[agrelon]

A chophop could get messy....

[Cadiuro]

Planing is what I like... No hydrofoils for me.

[paulyboy403]

@Cadiuro same here...freestlye windsurfing for me, none of this boring straight line stuff lol

[steveyboyok]

very bizzare

[eddysottocoperta]

mi sento castrato mejo quello dietro

[leepastrana]

bigger sail and you could go from Cali to hawaii... SWEET

[PardyPaddy]

thats pretty cool :D

kmh?

[FLzwartepiet]

yea..

[mansson111]

try gybing it...

[Xid3d]

so the helicopter is providing the wind? I always wanted to try helicopter assisted sailing. Looks like fun.

[maxendenia]

@Xid3d heli wind is really sucking wind, Ive sailed with an helicopter and it was imposible to sail..

[maxendenia]

@Xid3d heli doesnt provides wind, at least not good wind to sail with, the heli is really far away from the boards, but the camaras have good zoom, they go so fast coz of real wind not of heli wind, I sailied with heliwind and its the shittiest wind Ive had

[lukassnakeman]

@Xid3d how is the guy sailing towards the helicopter in the last shot dumbass, thats called going against the wind

[ilValutatore]

che bello

[LocaLuna1]

guy?

[HerTester]

How can this work O.o ?

Very nice viedeo!

[captjack6874]

how is it the other guy is passing up the hydradicky?

[XXjohnnySixx223XX]

@captjack6874 because the guy with the hydrofoil has more weight than the other guy because he has the long pole thingy

[Matthijs3476]

@captjack6874 It's difficult to go fast because you've constantly got your mind set on balancing the board, you know, keeping it from flying out of the water, or letting the board touch the water

[mrjimi482]

super cool

[lifesabeach3036]

wow, that would take alot of skill to keep it on the foil lol

[Kounglou]

point is les drag means better upwind performance,

and what most forgot to say the experiance on "flying above the surface gooto be a special feeling what u wont get from regular planing ;)

[suzanne750]

un oiseau.

[Prouddemocrate]

The point is , the other Windsurfer ist much faster and looks cooler :-) !!!

[pivotpals94]

@Prouddemocrate normal windsurfing rules more than hydrofoil, but it rocks tooo

[CirciSurfMusic]

@Prouddemocrate which one is the other?

[Prouddemocrate]

@CirciSurfMusic look at 0:49 !

[CanadianToad]

You can't pull as hard against the wind if you are trying to keep the hydrofoil perpendicular I would imagine.

This would make it slower than a standard windsurfer.

[Ibringthetruth1]

i didn't seem him turning it.

nice vid. Anyone know how much faster?

[Kangarello]

That's right, but to turn he has to reduce the speed so that the board will touch the water

[cybercow222]

seems the other one catched him at the end, the hydrofoil is loosing speed with those bumps and wind holes

[barney470]

he just doesnt like gettin wet!!! :P lol

[Alomphega]

Next step : "SUPSF" (SUP+Sail+Foil) !

Lets dream of a board able to go SUP within 0 bf wind, then go sub-planing since 1 till 4bf, then go planing and foiling beyond...

That will be the cool water life, man !

[annelles]

looks like it s not that confortable and the other windsurf is "flying" even faster without a foil ! pretty spectacular though. fun for showing off

[nomedeeps]

Except usually so far out from the shore that no one can see. From a distance (more than a few hunded yards) it looks like any other wind surfer.

[willcobbsail]

Looks fun! I made a hydrofoil for my starling, check it out in my uploaded vids! (it's the only one)

Hmm, this one doesn't seem to improve speed (the point) as you can see another surfer fly past him, but stil! Awsome!

[rodi121]

Is it hard to do or is it the same as normal windsurfing??

[Johanoeberg]

I think it looks a bit unstable.

[00amglory00]

its different..you have to push a lot with the feet and legs to let the board stay balanced on the axis

its hard.

[fretburns]

awsome...id like a go

[jipisjolibud]

eso es imposible!

[luklige]

Sweeeeet!

[teto191919]

how dose he turn ?

[moowgli78]

he gybes perfectly!!

[ptrefftz]

They didn't show a gybe in that video...

[Wiggling]

never.... it's ment to run straight all life long

[moowgli78]

i have seen antoine albeau with the same board a day there was a bit of swell and in this case i can assure you that it permits to go much faster than the others due to the fact that he is not bothered by the swell. I've also seen him gybing without touching water and it was quite amazing!!

[fabioalibrandi]

Ma come cazzo fa?!

[thevividhaze]

It gets you another few feet above the water so the wind is stronger and cleaner

[be4tb0x]

? the normal windsurfer is much faster

[xaznsparten]

where to fuck can i buy 1 luv wind surfing and kite i use 1 when i kite but never heard of 1 when i wind surf

[sdrogalas]

at 0:54 look how fuster is the normal windsurfing...so what's the point???

[clemofish]

it is faster

[anonymus002]

fun? whats the point in windsurfing anyways besides fun?^^

[stathisk3]

where can i buy one of this shit???????? its facking awsome!!!

[user696969]

that looks fun, wonder how hard it is

[TheDrakenZ]

THATS SO FUCKIN COOL LOL

[tuggerpuppy1]

Screw you assholes!

This thing is SWEET!

[syam89omm]

i think its unbalance not because of the foil, but maybe because it is wind surfing. i never see wind surfer(with regular type of wind surfing board) sit on his surf board and relax.

[808wiz]

Now we're talking!

[syam89omm]

What do you mean with unstable? I dont c anyting like it in this video. It is the most efficient way of using energy..They should do more reaserch on it

[Xigano1]

syam89omm,

If you watch our hero,

you'll see that can't realy loose the surfer in the background.

I gues building up the lift kind of evens out

the gain here,

but it's still awesome :)

[Nza420]

Sure, maybe it's not much faster overall, but the water is super choppy and our friend with the foil is not slamming the water at all.

[jhultquist000]

that water's not choppy at all. thats like almost flat.

[Nza420]

Looks choppy enough to me to be uncomfortable, sir. Thank you, good night.

[jhultquist000]

with wind strong enough to windsurf the water doesnt get flatter than that.

[Nza420]

ok, good point!

[cymen1]

It looks like he constantly needs to balance himself, which is not relax.

[Diliverium]

Yeah, but on any modern planing board, you basically sail on your fin anyway, atleast most of the board is out of the water. So i dont really see what is good with this board, it might have a little less drag, but it will be so unstable that it will be hard to sail fast with it

[altt10000]

The only time a hydrofoil will create less drag than a planing board is in chop. Even then, would you really want to sail one of those things when powered up? In the real world, the hydrofoil is going to get munched by the planing board simply because of the bigger sail, more stable sheeting angle and general rig handling. Look at the vid - the guy is flopping all over the place. Be a damn smooth ride though and great fun I should think :-) Until you hit some weed that is...

[HamMedBukserne]

omg :D looks sooo fun xD

[yysii]

how can such a thing happen?

[mondorob316]

What part of "Hydrofoil" Windsurfing did you miss?

[yysii]

I wanted to ask how you can make the Hydrofoil Windsurfing?

[apologiate07]

Like an airfoil, a hydrofoil creates lift in the water.

[Diliverium]

The other sailor at the end of the video is much faster than him, if it doesnt increase speed much i dont see the need for foils

[airsoldier2001]

I`m an outsider, but it looks to me that the other surfer had a biger sail ! Correct me if I`m wrong !

[casf120]

they actualy are faster due to less drag

[vinczeee]

smoother ride

[bainshee]

I dont really see the up side to this, looks unstable and not that much faster then a normal board.. Guess thats why it never really took off..

[flmason]

How does a single hydrofoil avoid porpoising?

[riverbankwader]

Hey thats cool. Windsurfers have certainly moved on a lot from when I had my big old floater. Does the board need to be that big if it is not in the water

[marlo916]

i thought that was marty mcfly. hahaa

[yoSHOES]

that's sick

[SoaL76]

lol!!

[Putonyourfknshoes]

he seems to be undersheeted most of the time.

a bit more work needs to be done on the foil so he can sail with the rig on top of him self so the foil gives him the right amount of lift, so he doesnt have to make so many adjustments.

but its a good concept, and one i could see working in the future

[checkstay]

the mighty foil

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

wow!

[WindEffected]

Yes the concept is amazing ...had a friend make one in the early 90s but it had 2 foils on a custom glass board. Didnt progress as far as it could as he hit the bottom and lost one ,after months of design work.

Whats intresting is the ride ,elevated with NO CHOP great for the older generation windsurfer who s body is falling apart after 30 years of wave splapping.

Looks as if the rider is making heaps of trimming ajustments? is this the case.

so cool i want one

[bolwell]

Dude without the foil is mincing him....cool concept though

[clip2222]

nice bij de wind

[hyperles]

but its damn cool with the hydrofoil cause u lift off the water. in normal planing you dont unless u hv a big sail n strong wind then u can ride on the fin

[bulldog01209]

A sailboard already planes the hydro foil is not needed.

[southwestwingchun]

yes, but the hydrofoil does not have to deal with surface disturbance, bounce and chop.. but that other dude was catching him up.

[spazz0id]

it looks like the other board was on a different tact, like a beam reach etc. That foil board is something else though. To Bulldog01209...yes..the board plains already, but the foil would have so much LESS resistance...in other words...same speed with less wind...or faster speed with more wind .. = drooooooool lol (I imagine the ability to tact would be more difficult though)

[southwestwingchun]

indeed, a tack or jibe would probably be done with the hull on the water,.

i'm sure that within a few years of this idea "taking off" (excuse the pun) someone will be doing some crazy unreal stuff on it.

but i reckon its for quite calm conditions.

bigger waves would ruin the whole concept.

i wonder if some sort or retractable hydrofoil might work.??

[spazz0id]

Oooh...retractable? Hmmm....you could retract it to a certain degree like the centerboard...but I don't think you'd ever get the foil to completely collapse into the hull unless there was a indent in the hull that it could slide into.

Tacking with the hull in the water makes sense....and that would also make sense why the other surfer would beat the foil. You'd have to drop all inertia to get the hull down, and then pull it back up again.

Still...it would clean up in the straight reaches.

[altt10000]

Thing is, the total surface area in contact with the water when planing the traditional way is almost certainly equal to or less than the total area of the hydrofoil; only the latter has to plough through the water, rather than planing over it. So for all out speed I doubt it will ever exceed the traditional design.

Also, seems to me when the other guy actually passes him he is on the same tack

[neocosa]

Had that exact idea like 15 yrs ago!! when i used to practice some windsurf.. Great!

[altt10000]

indeed. There were toyed with on a windsurfer in the early 90's from what I remember of them. Doubtless earlier too

[miguelmouta]

What are the possible advantages ?

Can you make a tack in this thing ?

[vibratingstring]

Looks like the non-foiler is going much faster.

[hendragster]

as seen on 0:59 - The normal wind surfer is catching up and looks faster than the wind-foiler

[maravillo]

It also looks like the guy isn't even using the harness. I wonder what will come out of this if more research gets done. For now, stick with the normal boards and learn how to 'fly the fin' reducing the wet surface of the board by railing the leward side.

[davidnlutrecht]

kk vet

[xXxcastenada]

The foils mounted at the tail which looks like a bad position given the way the rider has to constantly shift his weight to keep it trimmed. 2 smaller foils at the nose and tail might be the way to go for straight line speed and stability, though turning radius might suffer..

[lifeless94]

for hydrofoil windsurfing.. wats the miminum sail size??

[jeremywang4614]

i thought you have to jump for hydrofoils?

[squito94]

Where can you buy one of these? I tried to find one online but couldn't.

[surfthetsu]

You know you're going fast when only the fin of your board is touching the water :0

[bosko187]

I'm windsurfing, but a have only normal FIN or however it is called, and it is always in the water totaly, not ony if its very strong wind....can you put that thing on any windsurfing board????

[ChineseDickFingers]

ted danson is black

[DreadnoughtFIN]

Awesome!

[fulcrum82]

What a long jump :O lol!

[SilverRui]

You can see that a normal windsurf board is much faster than the hydrofoil one (see the last seconds of the film, the windsurf board gain lots of room).

[BarbaShime]

Normal windsurf drag is not much.

Here: m2 of the sail = speed.

Wonder how different it was?

[negrom56]

how fast can it goes??

[eboo9000]

theres probely onnly 15 knots theres ust loads of apparent wind

[silverporta]

OMG

[Johndaly69]

How many knots did he get??

[12Rockland]

Where can you get a hydrofoil board?

[martinsvv]

Looks really cool ;)

[BanaanTV]

is there something attached to the fin?

[antipike]

its simply cavitation

[tuberking12]

i think its cool for trimarans. though the only benefit is speed (not even sure). You don't have the real surf feeling, playing with the waves etc. what does it add besides some possible speed benefits?

[inagod]

if you can control the foil angle and height I bet you could go a lot faster?

[Jangle2007]

Interesting discussion about the theories of tradional vs. hydrofoil board speeds.

On this video, I would offer two thoughts:

1) Intuitively, it appears that a properly designed hydrofoil board with a designed sail should be faster due to less water resistance.

2) In this video, I think part of the story is that the traditional board APPEARS to catch up because the point of view of is rotating as the sailors pass the buoy. Perhaps the traditional board is faster, but it's not clear.

[automaticreply]

also we don't know the weight of the riders or the size of their sails.

[Jangle2007]

automaticreply - Another good point.

Also, in reviewing the video again, I notice that the hydrofoil is placed far aft of the center of gravity, so I would suspect that the a great deal of the sail energy is lost by the hydrofoil needing to create gobs of extra lift to counter act the board/sail/rider's weight well forward of the hydrofoil. I know the sail generates some vertical lift, but I suspect not nearly enough to counteract the placement of the hydrofoil.

Other thoughts?

[altt10000]

At speed on a windsurfer, the centre of gravity is becomes moot, the key forces in this case are the lateral push of the sail and the resistance to this force delivered via the rider, from the fin (at the back). If you move the foil to the centre of gravity then it will spin out the instant you move down the board to close the slot as speed increases. If you remain forwards the sail will simply stop delivering more acceleration sooner, and you'll end up like a dingy with a fixed sail

[windsurf7772]

sexy why they not in the shop no good ha

[1728lorenxo]

That was bloody cool.

[HenryZach]

THAT IS SICK!!!!!