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    Posted: 26 May 11 at 7:12pm
Light weight and a large diameter, slim, efficient propeller and drive train, mostly.
Probably the first pedal-powered foiler was Flying Fish in 1983:
Here are some of the current crop:
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that is awsome but how does it do that cos most pedlos are so slow?
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Fancy a foiler? How about this then:
 
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Originally posted by Medway Maniac

The crossing wouldn't take long on one of these:

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The crossing wouldn't take long on one of these:
Wilsonian SC
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lol no I was just interested as I was reading what crafts had crossed the channel and it got me thinking, had any one done it in a pedalo, but sadly the answer was yes : (
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Please make sure we don't end up with some news report about how the coast guard had to be called out to rescue some doughnut from the middle of the channel on a pedalo
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The torpedalo is an awesome design.  Can't believe their sponsor list - fair play!
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torpedalo looks awesome, the two bentley guys crossing the atlantic!!!!!!!
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talk to GRF, by the looks of it, he's developing a "high performance pedalo" right now  Wink
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