I raced Mirrors and Enterprises back at Shustoke reservoir 79 - 84 . If you had showed me this video back then, I wouldn’t have believed it ! It’s hard for me to grasp how much fun youngsters can have now. Best wishes to everyone involved in this.
In a few years this could be implemented in all kind of boats. I've seen an Optimist foiling with 5 knots of wind so imagine the future championships with all those little botas foiling...that will be spectacular.
COOL MAN! Thanks for sharing. Laser full rig was my first boat... bought it for $900 after working $3-5 per hour in my early teens doing babysitting and yardwork in town.
Sail Laser since 89...Now the ILCA 7 are 30 kg lighter.. Upwind with tactics I still win them but the rest they are much more speed, much lighter.. Old Standard and the new, same points... Nowadays they are poor on tactics, trainers (?) supporting, gyms.. Not in Laser competition anymore, only some Regional regatta... Big boats for some years... Not the same.. Sometimes is like a job when we sometimes had problems with colegues of work.. "Team" work depends sometimes and strongly with character, attitude and personality of people..And coordenation.. Crews are not always the same.. Diplomacy... Laser is to ride at high speed with myself.. Great boat in everything.. 👍👌
I had a windmill about the same size... 4 meters, basically... daggerboard keel... planing hull....felt like flying to me when I was in high school... this looks like the future in personal water transport...
Which speed achieve your boat? Its all build in foam? The centreboard was built for you? Here is more expensive one of them. Please comment me this things. Very thanfull and many greetings from Argentine
You definitely must have great boat /sail handling skills to be able to do this without ending up the water with sail right over you.....but it looks great....
looks like the rudder could do with profiling, max amount in water when none foiling and slowly decreases as the boat lifts out, a ratio of how much keel is in the water perhaps. Love to have a go, looks great fast fun.
Didnt convince New York YC the “bulb” was OUT and FOIL WAS IN (& how so!). My 1982-mod laser Tri keel with dual working foils was sooo close & hoped to be more stable than mono foil.
OK, fine boat and "driver". But why do you think a so strong music on the beginning will attract people ? I jumped to the button to cut it (sound and images). Then I re-started with sound off.
That looks really hard. Very twitchy. Although the laser is an amazing boat, do you think it might not be best suited for a foil and why? What would you do to a boat to make it more stable for a foil and not lose the performance of a laser?
It's pretty crazy to think a foil can lift a laser hull out the water and still be faster through the water. The angles must be causing a lot of drag. I guess it only has to be less than the hull and the centreboard but Wow. Surprised the Full rig has the power to do this. I wonder how the heel compares? Less centreboard in the water so more heel but it goes faster so less relative forces on the sailplan. Interesting equation. If I was 10 years younger I'd love to try it. Luv and Peace.
I'd guess the answer to balancing is to tilt the boat to the weather, like moth sailors and windsurfers do. That way you can harness more of the wind. Just start it in a reach then head up
@@fenui That seems intuitive but remember the more you tilt the boat off centre to windward the less lift is being provided to raise the hull. In fact it will increase drag. It will help combat weather helm which is a plus I suppose. I bet the Laser full rig is pretty marginal to lift at the best of times so I doubt the crazy angles of moths would be beneficial. Having said that I know nothing about this so it's idle speculation. I wish they could make a wing efficient enough to loft an L4K. That would tempt me back to fast dinghies. 🙂 Luv and Peace.
@@ianedmonds9191 if I understood correctly, you said more power should be available than standard, right? Then having an ARC1 rig can help. But at that point it's questionable if it's worth the price.
@@fenui I hadn't heard of Arc Rigs and had to look it up. That's awesome. Fully battened lightweight sail and spars would make a huge difference. All we need now is a carbon fibre hull... Luv and Peace.
Visibly the rig and sails need to be updated for the foiler version. When the laser accelerates, the old style mainsail looks like a potatoe bag, far too full for this job.
Normal ones? Are you a spoilt brat? Too much foiling cats in your garden? If you ask for foil specs, you are a specialist. It takes computer simulations to design those things, if you want to win a race.
Replying 2 years late, but the way these are balanced is by leaning them into the wind, and having the weight of the boat tipping it over and the wind tipping it back the other way cancel out.
water and air are technically both fluids, you create (like with an airplane wing) more fluid speed on one side in comparison to the oder side of the wing. the difference creates sucktion and will lift you up in the air or out of the water. another point is just the angle of the wing, comparable with holding your flat hand out of the window while driving a car. if you angle up your hand you produce lift and if you angle it down you create downforce. Greetings from germany!
Good but didn't need all the music, hype and BS to make it interesting for me, seems to be the latest formulae right down to gardening shows. Got worn out half way through!
Obviously you are not very familiar with hydrodynamics and flying. By having the foils agled and v-angled it makes the behaviour more subtle. The lift and change of lift will decrease by the cosine and you should have at least a touch more margin of error.
This makes no sense. A Laser is a Laser. If you want to sail a foil, get a Waszp(cheaper and easier to sail) or a Moth(more expensive and more difficult to sail but much faster).
