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  2. Kiwis reveal new full-foiling monohull America's Cup class design

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  3. Beneteau Figaro 3 Formula Foil Ocean Racing Championship

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  4. Foiling Yachts

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  5. The foiling phenomenon, the history of foils

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  6. Beneteau Figaro 3 is a new foil-assisted sail yacht

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  1. The foiling phenomenon, the history of foils

    The first issue is how much foil surface area you need to lift the boat. This varies with speed: the faster you go, the less you need. Early foil design used ladder-type racks of foils which ...

  2. [2023] Hydrofoil Yacht: The Ultimate Guide to Sailing on Foils

    Hydrofoil yachts use foils to lift the hull out of the water, reducing drag and increasing speed. Different types of foils, such as T foils, C foils, S foils, and L foils, are used for stability and control. ... Hydrofoil racing yachts can achieve impressive speeds, with some models reaching over 50 knots (57.5 mph or 92.6 km/h). The F50 ...

  3. Foiling and Hydrofoiling: Everything you need to know

    Offhsore, 90ft Ultime multihulls on their foils are competing to be the fastest to race around the globe and design houses across the globe are racing to create foiling yachts for the masses which ...

  4. Meet the 'Patriot,' the New Lightning-Fast America's Cup Foiling Yacht

    Published on October 30, 2020. By Michael Verdon. Courtesy Will Ricketson. Patriot, the just-launched America's Cup racing yacht representing the United States, completed its first week of ...

  5. 10 Fantastic Foiling Boats

    10. New Zealand 'R' Class skiff. In New Zealand they love their skiff sailing, and development classes like the doublehanded 'R' Class are prime for new features. The 'R' Class started its project to get the fleet foiling back in 2008 and now there are a clutch of boats racing.

  6. What will foiling do for you?

    The system is based on a horizontal foil that is deployed on the leeward side. As the boat picks up speed, the foil produces vertical lift, which increases the righting moment of the boat and ...

  7. Here's What It's Like to Ride on a High-Speed Foiling Yacht

    From racing sailboats to weekend cruisers, foils represent the industry's next sea change. Modified on July 18, 2023 , Published on July 16, 2023 By Michael Verdon

  8. SuperFoiler Grand Prix

    More news. SuperFoiler Grand Prix is the 'F1' of hydrofoil sail-racing. There is no other entertainment product like it in the world. The SuperFoiler is a highly advanced, purpose-built machine that drives unrivalled performance. The world's best sailors agree that our IP and ambition exemplify leadership in the new combined dimension ...

  9. World's Most Advanced Hydrofoil Boats Fly Above Water

    With razor-sharp hydrofoil catamarans that help them hit speeds of 60 miles an hour, the athletes of SailGP are pushing the limits of physics and human endur...

  10. Foiling Monohull Design

    Like the exotic Dali foils on the IMOCA boats, these new Figaro foils are expensive, complex structures. The deeply curved foils and the cases supporting them, according to Beneteau's sailboat marketing director, Gianguido Girotti, will represent almost a third of the cost of the boat. ... The new boats will make their racing debut in 2019 ...

  11. High Speed Hydrofoil Racing: Red Bull Foiling Generation ...

    Do you want to see the fastest and most thrilling sailing competition in the world? Watch the high speed hydrofoil racing of Red Bull Foiling Generation, where young sailors fly above the water on ...

  12. Hydrofoils for Sailboats

    Italian Enrico Forlanini began experimenting with foils in 1898. In 1906, his 1-ton 60 hp foiler reached 42.5 mph. Alexander Graham Bell's HD-4 Hydrodrome flew on Bras d' Or Lake at 70 mph in 1919. And several sailing foiler patents began appearing in the 1950s. Notably, JG Baker's 26-foot monohull, Monitor, flew at 30-plus mph in 1955.

  13. Foiling: the history of the hydrofoiler

    The history of foiling. The early development of hydrofoils started over 100 years ago when Italian Enrico Forlanini achieved 36.9 knots with his 60hp airscrew-driven boat in 1906. Several ...

  14. Foiling technology: everything you need to know about hydrofoils

    Foiling technology can be traced back to 1898 when Italian inventor Enrico Forlanini began work on a 'ladder' foil system, obtaining patents in both the UK and the USA. He had a prototype operating on Lake Maggiore soon after. British boat designer John Thornycroft followed up with a series of scale models featuring stepped hulls and a ...

  15. HUGO BOSS

    New generation foil assisted racing yacht. The new generation foil-assisted yacht 'HUGO BOSS' has taken a team of naval architects, engineers and boat builders just over two years, 80,000 hours to reach its completion. The IMOCA Open 60 race boat has been built with one goal in mind - to win the Vendée Globe in 2020-21.

  16. The Engineering and Design Behind Modern Racing Yachts

    Source: INEOS. Each British vessel took around 46,000 hours to build, 90,000 hours to design, 75- to 100 thousand hours to CNC machine, and weighs around 6,450 tonnes. The yachts also include ...

  17. Best hydrofoil boats: 6 of the most spectacular foiling motorboats

    SEAir foiling RIB. Founded in 2016, French yard SEAir builds foiling RIBs, having been inspired by the speed of foiling racing yachts. We tested their 5.5m model back in 2018 and since then they have expanded their range to cover superyacht chase boats, commercial and military vessels.. Our tester recorded a top speed of 32 knots, with the foils doing their best work at around 20 knots, but ...

  18. Foil-assisted cruising by Baltic Yachts

    However, Baltic Yachts ' adoption of the innovative Dynamic Stability System (DSS) from Infiniti Yachts is changing this out-dated perception and proving that the foil technology offers major benefits for the cruising sector. As testament to this, the recently-delivered Baltic 142 Canova is the largest DSS foil-assisted yacht ever built, with ...

  19. Canova

    Not only the first foiling superyacht - or foil-assisted superyacht, but the first cruising yacht with a foil, the 142ft Canova is a groundbreaking project in so many ways, says Toby Hodges

  20. Sailing hydrofoil

    The boat design was based on an A-Class Catamaran, containing 'L' foils on each hull and 'T' foils for the rudders and is claimed to reach a top speed of 35 knots. The G4 was designed as a hybrid between racing boats and cruising yachts, capable of foiling or not foiling based on the desires of the user.

  21. FOIL-ASSISTED CRUISING

    First adopted a decade ago by small racing yachts and, more recently, making the headlines as a key feature on board the latest America's Cup boats, foil technology is typically associated with high-performance and high-speed sailing. However, Baltic Yachts' adoption of the innovative Dynamic Stability System (DSS) from Infiniti Yachts is changing this out-dated perception and proving that ...

  22. Monofoil: The pocket rocket that can foil in just 8 knots of breeze

    The spectacle of a flying catamaran, be it an Olympic Nacra 17, a GC32, the recent America's Cup 50-footers, or anything in between, has become almost normal in today's racing world, so rapid ...

  23. BMW and Tyde Debut World's Largest Electric Foiling Yacht

    As such, we expect the foiling boat to boast a 400kWh bank of BMW i3 batteries and twin 100kW Torqeedo Deep Blue electric motors, which will allow it to start gliding above the water at around 17-18 knots. Lift will be generated by a T-foil at the bow and a twin-strut horizontal foil aft with forward-facing counter-rotating props.