Foil Boat

Watched a leg of the Sail GP race recently. Crazy the speed and different sailing techniques used for thos huge foil boats. Saw a Moth design that used a foil to fly. Really fast. Anybody seen a foil boat design available to build at home? Thinking the folks at CLC will rig up a jimmy skiff or other eventually (hint, hint), but was wondering what was out there. Stay well.

Oh, I can imagine this on many CLC type boats with dagger boards.  Essentially, instead of a straight dagger board that is inserted from the top, one would have a T shaped dagger board that is inserted from the bottom.  The wings would have to be shaped for lift and somehow secured to the boat - pined through the daggerboard trunk - possibly.  While I can dream of this in my head, in reality all I can picture are capsizes and instability and sturctural failure.  Good luck!.

Everyone always wants to go faster, but I think this guy has it right...https://youtu.be/xlqbrgoGXsg

 

 

https://www.storerboatplans.com/foils/sailing-hydrofoils/foiling-sailboats-homebuilt-no-hiking-out/   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55vYu4wZuwE

https://www.sail-world.com/news/229181/How-to-home-build-a-Moth

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/753297475142305103/

https://smalltrimarans.com/blog/diy-foiling-trimaran-video/

Then there's the IMOCA bunch taking it to extremes:

https://www.imoca.org/en/races/imoca-globe-series/vendee-globe