Tomahawk

There is more development to go, production in May is un-realistic. The boat we displayed at the dinghy show is a development prototype.

For the record, the hull is Morrison designed, the foils Tomahawk and the product development has been done by Linton at Full Force. Ovington have been bought on board for production when the development cycle is completed should there be sufficient interest.

The intention with this boat is to offer a non foiling version and eventually a trapeze version.

As you can imagine to get all these configurations to work will take some time.

Jon, I cannot recall suggesting that the Monofoil was a scam; cannot see why that would have been claimed; and searches of BDF and SA show no such posts.

The BDF discussion between us was fairly civilised. I was genuinely interested in your Tomahawk foil as it seemed to be simple and had been subject to full scale tests.

Development is great. However, some of us may think that making claims of great future feats does not show a lot of respect for the state of the art and those who created it. I take your point (expressed on BDS) that you feel it's better to aim high.

Oh, and my apologies, the Moth quote was from someone else.

Mongrel, sorry if that's the way it seems to you; it's not the intention. Yes, I may be too tetchy when people criticise popular boats and I apologise for that.

Chris 249

"I think I put up two posts about the Monofoiler on BDF, when it was (as it
still is) at model stage. The study of sailboat design development,
including the interplay of theory and practise, has been a major hobby of
mine for a long time, and I've asked one hell of a lot of innovators about
it."

You did rather more than that, including implying the whole thing was a scam on the SA forum. Looking at many of your other posts on other topics you do have a certain "style". You REALLY don't like people having a go at developing anything you don't like, your logic being that you can't develop anything that you have not already done...... anyone spot the error here? Since your day is going so much more badly than mine I'll leave you to it.

"Listen for the crackling of
flames......"

Crackle crackle

In case anyone else is curious about wingspan and roll stability when foiling the board, span is settling out at 1 to 1.2 metres and rolling is only an issue when the foil is submerged since the water surface confers a little roll stiffness. As for the discontinuities causing drag, this only bites when not fully ventilated and submerged, when surface running the ventilation bubble encloses all the discontinuities. When waves are encountered the foil simply slices through the wave cap and takes the ventilation bubble with it. Linton reckoned that the foil was only on the water for about 25 to 50% of the time at speed, slicing waves does not bother it and this was a key aspect of its use on Monofoil. The famous foiling board video (nothing to do with me incidentally) where a normal board is burning past it shows a board on foils of tiny span, wingspan matters!

Jon.