Foiling for the masses

not sure if this has come up be for but i read somewhere of people going on about making a moth for bigger people id a bigger boat bigger sails ect 

I recently picked up the book about 'Icarus' the foiling Tornado used in speed records.
All a very long time ago now, but the elements of foiling were in place then, using much cheaper materials, aluminium foils etc. A lot on this forum not even born then!
A foiling cat could probably be done quite cheaply now.
A cat is the obvious way to go, to get enough non-foiling speed to allow the use of smaller foils.
The book is worth a read if you see it in the library.
Also interesting to note those 'record' speeds (high 20's of knots) are now achieved by B14's etc.

An interesting point, there is a big difference between peak speed on a wave and average over 500m or whatever. But when did anyone last put a skiff on a measured distance course? Would there be any point, as the speed records are much higher now?
We could extract GPS data I suppose, anyone done that for average over 500m in any direction?
(do we have 20knts of fred drift yet?)

Three years have passed since this, and further to the discussion going on about the N12 and it's T foil, combined with my interest in jacking the V2 hull up on foils, which if it could be done would be a silly easy boat to use, my question is where is all the development at the moment, the Tomohawk didn't progress, Mothy's are still the province of the light but highly skilled type.

Cat's are obvious still at it, I'm wondering just how feasible and how easy it would be to get hold of the necessary kit to do it and at what cost?

Originally posted by blaze720 Sounds like another 'Doug Lord' in the making ...