Learning To Hydrofoil

Hydrofoil built and tested at Yale University. More Info: http://hydrofoil.eng.yale.edu

Soundtrack: "Learning To Fly" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Buy it at iTunes and start the video and song at the same time. Maybe some day iTunes and YouTube will get together and make it easier to license music for home-created videos.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• rowing
• sculling
• human powered vehicles
• hydrofoils

[shorerydr10]

Man a weird thing i noticed from this is that the rigger moves with the feetstops. is this a modification or a like a different bat design???

[jbmnh]

The sliding rigger design helps keep the weight from shifting forward & backward on the foils, helping the overall stability. The effect is also present in normal shells, though less pronounced (stern check). The sliding rigger was originally tried in the early 80's. It is faster, but the international rowing bodies decided they wanted to race rowers against each other, not technologies, so it was banned. You can still find some boats that use sliding rigger designs if you look.

[theguyfrommar5]

how much faster are they in the hydrofoil? compared to normal sculls.

[art4med]

Are sliding riggers actually legal in 2011?? My 4 could do with less check!

[SnailOfExplosions]

@oheyitsmehannah Calm down man. This is a completely different boat than anything ever made before, he's not going to do the Head of the Charles or anything in it...

Yet?

[oheyitsmehannah]

This. Is. Not. Rowing. I'm sorry but if you're an actual rower, you go all out. Stop doing this pansy crap.

[SnowmanTF2]

@schakuras it helps reduces drag since their is less surface against the water once you are at speed.

[NBM397]

Hmm, looks like a technical feat.

However, I'd hate to run into something with those hydrofoils.



[schakuras]

wtf? what should help this?

[treocin]

hahaha love the patriots blades!!!

[darkboy456]

WTF??

Whats undearneath the boat looks like it flying

[herb821]

@ironoarsman its yale they have plenty of shells to spare

[ironoarsman]

Why bother starting out with a full blown single scull that drives the price up. Can you design something barely floats and then lifts the same way? Ok wait totally bypass the oars and put the Concept2 system as a form of propulsion with a propeller?