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Short answer is yes but not thru the wind range and angles that americas cup or Flying Nikta can do ie mostly beam reaching and below . Long answer since I do not have access to Gomboc i have done some linear calculations of lift ,righting moment at various speeds with certain assumptions...

1 st coat of primer is on. Not too bad but needs some areas to be touched up prior to repriming and then top coat . I only have a narrow window suitable to paint outdoors .

Headroom is 1.75m over floorboards 1.8 m over hull skin inside photos are at medium jpg density most visitors think it is a submarine rather than a mini imoca

Oh how I hate fairing slow progress but dragged her out today to cure off the bog at 32 degrees C . More sanding tomorrow interspersed with windfoiling or moth sailing . I aim to get paint on her before the end of my holiday in 2 1/2 weeks . However I have to go down to Spokane to pickup the...

The hull is sanding up quite well because it is mostly planar still needs more touch up fairing /bogging . Leeboards are progressing as is the main hatch nearly finished . The plug for the horizontal foil is faired needs waxing and pval prior to vacuuming on the mould lower surface . I have also...

Sorry not much to report just the dreaded sanding and bogging . The problem is the weather has become beautiful with so many sailing temptations .A couple of good blasts on the F18 HT in skimming mode on z foils two strings balancing on the head of a pin in 32 degrees .plus a couple of windsurf...

Slightly slow progress toe rails all glued on. primary fairing coat of epoxy bog applied with the help of the boat elf pictured who promises more sanding. Meanwhile bogging and fairing proceeds on the foil plug the leeboard uprights and the rudders . Finally warm enough to wind foil ,sail the...

Thinking about reshaping foils when I found the photos of the canard moth I pulled a few really old pics. I remembered creating airfoil dagger boards and rudders for a variety of boats back in the 1970s .Later in 1981when I bought my first keelboat nee original sport boat Salty Dog an...

Work slowly progresses fairing up the leeboard verticals . I cut out the actuator pivot and was quite happy with the carbon consolidation around the tube . Should easily be strong enough I hope !, I also put the boat up on wheels partly for sanding and painting outside but also because we were...

Meanwhile I collected the stainless steel “T” s to allow interchangeable mainfoils and 2 x5/8 ss rods as pivots from John at Arcright . wrt fairing one of the advantages of straight foils is that you can make up fairly accurate 4.5 inch wide sanding blocks cutting the airfoil profile out of...

This is a bulb that Salvatore at [email protected] very kindly and quickly modeled for me . I was asking Mars keel for a quote but this was way too expensive so I will cast it myself using Salvatore 3 d model

My green approach to going to work is a modified cat trike road with fairing and electric assist  12 km one way in 17 mins give or take a minute. 8 watt hrs per km approx quite a bit less juice than a Tesla needs .

Meanwhile back at the workshop fairing and flow coating of foils goes on as well as main hatch. I have also vacuum bag the carbon reinforcement over the knee on the leeboards. This consisted of1200 gm uni and 400 gm biaxial over the mid part with an extra 1200 uni at the forward edge for 50 mm...

I dug out some old photos of the canard moth 2012  also put the boat sched in operating order with boats down sails rigged for moths and windsurfers .

stunningly effective ; endplates usually  more than double effective aspect ratio which would be approximately 4 therefore typical 75% of wind tunnel CoL which is attributed to a nominal infinite span but really is adequately endplated like your foil was. What foil  of Bora's did you compare it to?

That is Figjam my wife's moth "couch" a  mini cherub/ 29er skiff  built in 3 mm ply over stringers  ply foam bulkheads. weighs about 25 kg with deck frame and can fly on  my old foils  but is designed for a 50 kg pilot who prefers planing .