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The Fastest Foil on the Water

submitted by rich_magnet

8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

Who's the fastest? A drag race between a kite foil, an International Moth, a Nacra F20 foiling cat and a Marstrom 32 racing cat. All are super high performing craft in their respective classes, but which class will be the first to the finish line? Spoiler alert: foils are fast!

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Beautiful watercraft all.
I'm not surprised at the results, beyond (SPOILER ALERT) the fact that the foil cat beat the moth. That thing looked fast. Kites beat sails hands down every time, though. They simply work better in many ways.
Why didn't they include any kite-cats? There are plenty of automatic kite systems, and non-automatic kites to replace sails as well. A kite driven foil cat would have been nice to see in the comparison.

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I'd like to see how fast an AC72 would do this course. The wing sails are very different in performance to conventional cloth, and they turn a lot of the conventions of sailing on their heads (they sail faster downwind in more adverse tide due to sailing faster than the wind for example). I know the kite is fast, but is it that fast?

Beautiful watercraft all.
I'm not surprised at the results, beyond (SPOILER ALERT) the fact that the foil cat beat the moth. That thing looked fast. Kites beat sails hands down every time, though. They simply work better in many ways.
Why didn't they include any kite-cats? There are plenty of automatic kite systems, and non-automatic kites to replace sails as well. A kite driven foil cat would have been nice to see in the comparison.

Only one way to find out...
Sadly, I don't own any sail/wing/kite boat at all, so it's up to someone else.

I'd like to see how fast an AC72 would do this course. The wing sails are very different in performance to conventional cloth, and they turn a lot of the conventions of sailing on their heads (they sail faster downwind in more adverse tide due to sailing faster than the wind for example). I know the kite is fast, but is it that fast?

I disagree. This is the fastest foil or or off the water:

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