I'm quite attracted to the flying boat step hull, and was considering a clip on fwd of the centreboard, for testing, but I seem to have enough sailplan and twin engine thrust to get to foil speed on a reach.
Also DSS and flight control
have become relatively mainstream in the market in one...
Thanks again Wil. You have bought up the global issues faced. Duly noted. I wish I had a jet lol. and Ed stainless. The Japanese. Good to know. AC75 foil arms weigh about 1 1/2 ton. Multiple laminations of profile cut 20mm cold rolled or equivalent high tensile steel on edge. Then you wrap it up...
Thank you for your overthinking Wil. It seems to encompass the concept with invaluable points. Yes, ocean fair weather application for full potential. And inbuilt design stability features for less than ideal foiling conditions. Why is cold water a bad thing? Ice bergs? Thanks again. Regards Sam
It's a challenging scenario. Over engineering, redundancy, etc. Like all engineering problems. My question is only about deploying the foils, and if steering box type system is something that has any practical application?
Thanks for the reply. Ac50 dagger boards are practical, but then, I'm going for extremes, the catamaran may weight 30 ton.extreme righting moments, maybe even streamlined battery pods on the foil arms.Bit of extra ballast aarrgh yes As in AC75 foil arms. You know they weight about 1 1/2 ton lol...
Hi. I've just joined and, well,the technology with foiling yachts is right on the edge of developing technologies, I'm a commercial pilot and designer of an offshore foiling catamaran. This forum will have the mindset for experimental, and concepts, so any interested feedback is most welcome...
