CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING: www.amazon.com/Locus-Boat-Desi... For Kotaro's book. Or, CLICK THE FOLLOWING: www.amazon.com/Hydrofoils-Desi... for Ray's book.
The point with this design is to stop the waves you hit from making the craft bounce and it's like adding shock absorbers to a boat, because it makes the ride so much more comfortable. It also reduces the fuel needed as there is less surface area touching the water, which means less wasted energy and better fuel efficiency. A good design for a daily water commute to work, and fun too.
OH MY GOD THAT IS HILARIOUS! The 80's theme song, the "doo-doooo"s, the multiple takes of it racing by timed with the music...IT'S ALL SO CHEESY AND 80's AND LAME THAT I LOVE IT!
I know when I was like 11, our family went to Wiesbadden Germany, and we Rode up and down the Rhine River on a Hydrofoil. It was way bigger than this though, and held like 50 people. This was in like 1994 when I went and rode this.
Advantages: Less friction = more efficient. Smoother ride from not slamming/bouncing on waves. Several disadvantages... Look what it takes to launch it and try to imagine what you would do to to get it from the garage to the lake. This would be for true foil lover. What a beautiful boat and great video.
There are those 'things' you just have to have or try in life, a wingsuit, a miniature helicopter of plane, a gokart, one of those motorized skateboards you lay down on, stuff like that. This is one of em...
Quite right. You've got a point. Either way a person would be in deep (pun unintended) trouble. Weather to get sliced by a fast underwater wing or bludgeoned by a fast moving hull. A far, far less important consideration would be the cost to the owner of the 'foil vs the standard speed boat.
ok, well how does the engine/prop touch the water to propel it? that inboard prop needs water just like a jet ski, but i dont see how it would get its water intake,
@smobyles there is way less drag; water is very heavy to move around the entire boat, if you just have to move it around 2 small foils, it takes less work i.e. you go faster maybe?
@JA7036 Apparently it's because it takes more energy to displace the same volume of water than it does air, basically because water is more dense or some shit.
@JA7036 Less drag of water on the hull, it rides on a pair of small fins under the water, and it can go a lot faster on less power - and have a smoother ride - than if it just floated.
Im a windsurfer, and one day at just 15 Knots I was catapulted by a simple cap floating invisible, UNDER the water, which grasped on the board fin . Boy, what an impact ! Some windsurf boards avoid algae thrust ( also a catapult danger) by employing a less angled fin . Who knows Mr Horiuchi can understand that and employ the HUE helicopters system to avoid grasping troubles ( and give us a royalty for this consultation ... ) ?,
