The Hobie Tri Foiler

The World's fastest production sailboat.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• fast
• sailing
• Hobie
• Tri
• Foiler
• sailboat

[Huckaby]

Exciting boat with a sterile video (no offense). This boat deserves better. :) Windrider Rave hydrofoil sailboats are still available. See my Rave video.

[BryanMorton]

The ad is somewhat like a middle school sex ed movie. Poor marketing might have been the boat's demise.

[wsdakota]

Where do you get these wonderful toys?

[BryanMorton]

Unfortunately, I think Hobie has discontinued the Tri Foiler.

[RippR101]

I want to see one at 80" w/ 100' masts. I figure that 40'-50' of beam is enough to keep it stable. Maybe give it a little higher stance out of the water so it will clear the tops of swells... then take that sucker out and wreck it going for an all out world speed record. You would have to shoot for 70 mph... and hope you hit 60 mph...

[fiddler2u]

I hope to build something like this.

[tonyboysax]

there,s a few u tube vids with the trifoiler in rough conditions-and it handles it quite well and still has good speed

[leggy555]

haha great fun :) i dont see why it would not handle waves any worse than a foiling moth, anyway people how sail fast boats hate waves :P ie; i16. 49er, A Class, moth's,.... not fat things like lasers and 420s

[bobrec3GTI]

Greg Ketterman

[dumon13]

this boat cant sail on a normal sea condition, it would break at the first wave

[ratatratrratatratr]

Okay, give the video's narration a rest. It's okay. The *music* they used for the videos... well, that's another matter.

[ratatratrratatratr]

Physically, there's a mainsheet in the cockpit that's connected to the sail link - the bar that connects the booms.

[ratatratrratatratr]

I'm not sure whether that's meant to be a derisive comment or not. Truth is it goes up *really* quickly and easily - about 15 minutes, comparable to rigging a cat. The rig is, um, "unique", though. More like a hang glider than a sailboat.

[ratatratrratatratr]

It's a "special interest" boat. That and the relatively high price kept sales low - only about 200 were sold over six years. At that volume, it's hard to justify keeping it in production.