18ft skiff with hydrofoil sailing

[fockya]

ya HOOOOO!!!

[willcobbsail]

c'mon boys! pop the kite! na awsome vid :) u mite wanna chuck the vid on a photo editing program and smoothen it owt a. I tried this on my starling, you should check my vid (its on my profile, its the only one so it wont be hard ta find). Hydrofoils are def the way a :)

[chimpornator]

nah you need trim control on both, if theres a small foil on the rudder it can stop it leaning back so far.

[chimpornator]

because the 18foot skiffs just ain't awesome enough :D

[thegodof]

close,.. trim needs to come from the 'wings' under the water,..this is flying..

[lego720]

trim control on the rudder foil is all thats needed

[dimbutslim]

i want one

[Armandinho8]

Do it again but next time with a proper cameraman...

[twholland1]

just goes to show that right when humans think we've brought something to the pinnacle of it's technological advancement, we haven't even begun.

these things are freaking awesome!

[spectacularlegend]

i must say when u lot got dunked into the water continously i could not stop laughing. if you do thins again you should put the spinnaker up then u would have flown (literatly)

[willcobbsail]

Thats soo cool! I made one for my starling, check my uploaded vids :p

[m1leswilliams]

You should take an idea from the moth, make the rudder a foil too, but with a trim tab on it., then make the tiller extension arm rotate which adjusts the trim tab, you then have a stable foil ride.

[amperion1]

this boat need upgrade i think, its unstable :-(

[darraghtank]

if one of the foils was further forward anyone?

[element9977]

if the centreboard was further foward, the entire dynamics of the steering would be completely changd and usless. if u move th centreboard frward even 30mil, ud have to change the sail planbd to balance it out

[darraghtank]

well i just got put in my place

[element9977]

haha it hurts doesnt it!

[big2daddy59]

That is really cool. It is illegal but who cares and you weren't racing. Oh and where did you get that hydrofoil it must be massive!

[984648327462]

needs different music

[Punk1131991]

the point is not that its class illegal, the point of it is that its so fucking awesum lol!

[Iamnotaemo]

this is silly why would you even atempt to do this it's illegal in the class isnt it

[oakey567]

soo why would you want to race i lol the race marks would just get in the way lol

[Macbeagle]

Perhaps they just need to develop a special class for boats like this...

[dvorak711]

i live on the lake and sail at geneva lake yacht club. melges x boats. where did you get your hydrofoil

[gguaschino]

Really astonishing! -G.Guaschino

[gbr672]

how cool, like a moth but so, so much better!!

wow,wow,wow,wow,wow i want one

[lookn0ver]

these things are simply advanced which are already here but sadly not in this world's mindset but only in the souls those whom understand that there can be here when you remember it always was. new world words do not fit old world understandings.

[playtimee]

all that matters with an 18 is did it win and is it legal...

[rubination]

how fast was this going?

[Dubrovnik54]

God bles yor spirit wishing you the best

[FushBuckWoNar]

Cwazy Fwench! Allez les bleus!

[worldstream]

wow, this is awesome!

[Davidgrantsail]

a taste of things to come i hope

[deathlord111222333]

What's the music?

[rdoorn255]

What a bad balance! A man must sit on the bow to re

[gbr672]

foiling boats are heeled to windward because it foils better

[saltymarshy]

needs an asymmetric. then it would really fly

[tarifa37]

Amazing power of the wing, steering does look a bit more difficult.