Foiling for the masses

So others clearly have it in mind

And you'll also have to accept whatever you get, a light person will get planing before you, although I guess that could be just down to rig size.

Now the skinny is, I have two choices, it's X amount and I get one boat but it wont last me very long if it turns out OK, then I'd have to go to Y amount do it all again and make a mould and five for a similar cost. Y-X = approx 4 grand.

The (very clever) team I've got on this include young  Dan Holman and Jamie Stewart who turns out to be a relative of Ossie Stewart another auld acquaintence from my murky past.

My plan was obviously to build a multi functional device as a platform for me to enjoy all this modern stuff, without me having to spend hours learning how to do it. Now other than some rigging issues, they think the way I'm going about it although a bit coming from left field will achieve what I'm aiming for.

So the first thing is for Dan to do the CAD bit then Jamie has some prgrammes that do all manner of calculations as to it's planing threshold, stuff I'd had no idea was around and such that I'd have given my eye teeth for back in the 'designing windsurf board' days. In essence if the computer says no we alter bits until it says yes.

The foiling bit was a secondary part of what I wanted and tbh I was probably going to involve a really good guy I found down weymouth way who knows his stuff.

The volume and waterline length of this craft will be more than capable of supporting Fatboys anyway so I'm kind of accepting of the fact however fast I manage to get the thing to go, some lard boy will take my pants down as he goes past in his, but hey it'll still be worth it if I get what I want out of it.

I wasn't going to do this as any kind of 'commercial operation' at this stage but if there are others interested it would make more sense to build the five rather than the one and depending on wether it was felt the RS100 mast could eventually take a trapeze, it would make more sense for me to build this thing so I just plugged in the bits off the 100 since they are a known quanitity and it's better at least when building boards, to build the two bits separately rather than risk a totally new can of worms and not know what you have to alter to make it do what you want, anyway, y'all know where to find me if you're interested and I haven't finished the costing just yet.

PS I hadn't gone out there all 'peoples foiler' for the obvious reason of not wishing at this stage to attract the sort of ridicule our friend Doug Lord enjoys, and anyway it's not me fabricating it, it's a bunch of Pro's who make proper stuff like Thames Raters, Rs 500's and 800's so proven track record.