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Hydroplane Sailing Yachts

Page history last edited by Alex Finnegan 10 years, 4 months ago

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The former world record holder Yellow Pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pages_Endeavour

 

 


 

Speed sailing records

http://www.speedsailing.com/Background_records.htm


http://www.foils.org/gallery/sail.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_hydrofoil


I think a good place to start when explaining Hydrofoil sailing is to talk about Monitor.

http://www.foils.org/gallery/monitor.htm

http://www.foils.org/monitor.htm

 

Monitor was Designed by American Gordon Baker, and the Hydrofoil research was partially funded by the US Navy. 


This successful configuration is of twin forward outboard foils with a single Ladder or inverted "T" foil set at the back.

Watch carefully for the special sensing arms that "Feel" the water (Look on the inner section of the two outrigger hulls (at the front)). These arms automatically set the Pitch control aspect of the foils.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTBYyNsmic


 

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