Buying Hydroptere, fastest ocean going trimaran

[Sail4beer]

Great to hear and best to the future of Hydroptere!!

 

[paps49]

Wow, what a great thread.
The good the bad and the ugly fully on display.
Well done dreamers all, where would we be without you.
Certainly not Hawaii, way too ridiculous a place to contemplate from Europe..........

 

[PaulK]

Being brought in to be worked on or to be put in storage?  Keep us advised! 

 

[alphafb552]

Being brought in to be worked on or to be put in storage?  Keep us advised! 

Or packed up for transport back to France? Wasn't that the plan?

 

[Mizzmo]

I saw her today in the same spot. Just  sitting in the sun. All disassembled. 

 

[Grrr...]

I saw her today in the same spot. Just  sitting in the sun. All disassembled. 

It's probably been pretty rough to find reasonable $$ transport. 

 

[Remodel]

It's probably been pretty rough to find reasonable $$ transport. 

Bummer.. There's a lot of moohlah tied up there in terms of cash and effort. I wish them well.

 

[Somebody Else]

I saw her today in the same spot. Just  sitting in the sun. All disassembled. 

Where is "the same spot"?

 

[Sail4beer]

Chris Welsh was one of the partners in the project and it was supposedly delivered to his yard. However, Chris unexpectedly died in March, so that may be why things are on hold. There was a thread about his death on the forums.

 

[IStream]

The curse continues.

 

[floater]

Where is "the same spot"?

I thought Chris was the owner of this place, but he is still listed as manager. RIP. https://sugardock.com/

 

[Somebody Else]

I thought Chris was the owner of this place, but he is still listed as manager. RIP. https://sugardock.com/

So nobody is willing to say the address or even the city, state, and/or country?

 

[Cal20sailor]

So nobody is willing to say the address or even the city, state, and/or country?

It's in the link you copied.  SF Bay.

That's in California which is in the United States.  Coordinates are on the page below:

https://sugardock.com/location/

 

[Somebody Else]

That's in California which is in the United States. 

Thank you! How hard was that... to give a straightforward answer?

 

[Cal20sailor]

Thank you! How hard was that... to give a straightforward answer?

Harder than clicking a link?

 

[Jethrow]

This is a 2021 photo apparently. I guess that's her...

 

[floater]

Harder than clicking a link?

Iol. and speaking of doing your own research, I just learned something new - google maps drive-by feature works on waterways, who knew? it looks like old footage though:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9215712,-122.3714949,2a,75y,190.46h,78.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYX2TPEy5LXWUsoQ_BkLmFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I had a gander at that wharf the other day - its across the "street" from Svendsens - full of boats, some prettier (and more interesting) than others..

 

[huey 2]

https://voilesetvoiliers.ouest-france.fr/bateau/hydroptere/foiler-l-hydroptere-2-0-bientot-en-france-ce-qui-se-fait-de-plus-rapide-en-pleine-mer-48a9f258-9886-11ed-838e-db5cb73079c3?fbclid=IwAR3HjeYO1FRUz5Vw8YxpckTiPYG8opOzegPyNHbuJ59iCm0eiPfziSXno3U

 

[Rasputin22]

So it did make it to Mobile last week!

 

[Somebody Else]

Except as a museum relic or a nostalgia piece, what is the interest in Hydroptere in this century?

 

[floater]

I made the mistake of thinking Hydroptere looked (to me) like a soulless contraption of inelegant structure - hard to even glimpse the boat beneath it all - and definitely not art. but I have been forcefully disabused of this notion - so my guess is: nostalgia. and it seems real.