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Adding Foils

Postby salazar_2 » Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:32 am

Hey guys my question is this, my boat is 250kg, could you add foils to it like what the imoca 60 have?
Any ideas?
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Re: Adding Foils

Postby admin » Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:31 pm

Sure, but adding the infrastructure to handle the additional loads from the lifting foils would take the weight of the boat up considerably more than 250 kg. I don't think there's a way to engineer those kinds of loads on 6mm plywood. Maybe some well-designed grid made out of CF could be tabbed into the frames and hull panels, but I am not an engineer and would never play one on television. :lol:

I think there's mention on another thread of this and the consensus was: no.
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