Introduction to Foiling Modes | Nacra 17 Foiling Explained | Advanced Sailing Tutorial | Part 1 

Thank you so much. In fact you are the reason why I bought a second GoPro 🤣 Have you any Tornado racing planned this year?

@@born2sail Hopefully the worlds will be in September although it does seem quite unlikely if all nations can't get there. Fingers crossed.

@@JoyriderTV Let's hope for the best. Also I wish you a relatively normal season in Greece. Fun fact, in the year of the Olympic Games back in 2016 the Nacra 17 European championship where scheduled in Greece, but was canceled because a lack of competitors. This year, also the olympic year, the Europeans are scheduled in Greece, just one week after the Kieler Week. I got a feeling about this 😀

Thank you very much. Unfortunately I haven't sailed a 3 point foiler like a Nacra 20 FSC yet. Or do you mean fully foiling on a 4 point foiler like the Nacra but slightly heeled over? I think about heel as a way to adjust the lift, not really as a basic foiling mode. I will certainly cover that topic when I make a video about how to foil and not kill yourselfe. By the way, what was your biggest sticking point when you started out on the foiler?

Danke dir! Und auch ein großes Danke, dass du uns immer mit Kommentaren unterstützt 👍👍👍

Danke für deinen Kommentar. Segelst du selbst ein fliegendes Boot?

Thank's for your comment! I will upload part 2 and 3 for sure. Currently we are in the buying process of a big boat. And unfortunately there is not really enough time to edit the videos. Sorry for that!

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@@uschifleischmann6089 Vielen Dank!

Thank you so much! I promise I will publish the two missing parts. I just bought an 80ft sailing ship and had a few very busy months with registration and all that. The two parts are almost finished but I need a few hours to get back into final cut and then I can put them up here. Unfortunately I can't tell when I have these few hours.

@@born2sail 80ft!! What happened to your N17?!

@@davincifpv3983 The N17 is stored on the big boat. I wanted to sell the N17 but watching the few races at the games I knew that we where on the right way. I think we gained a lot of the knowledge how to sail the boat in the last weeks sailing the boat and actually after that as well rewatching the onboard footage. I still have to get my knee fixed before I can really think of getting back on the cat.

I am glad you found the video helpful. We never went negative. About 0 is the minimum rake. We used different foil settings on two occasions, one was sailing upwind, where you don't need more lift on the windward hull and second was in weavy conditions where you reduce the lift also on the windward hull. The reason for that is that you don't jump if you accidentally loose the heel of the boat. But most of the time, especially downwind you can use the same setting for both daggerboards. You can start you search for the optimum setting like that: The boat should only start foiling when: 1. both, the crew and the helmsman are at the back of the boat 2. and streched on the wire 3. and the boat is completely flat. 4. Rudders should be at 0 or just a tiny bit lift. That gives the crew plenty of hull to run forward. Also you can easily reduce the lift if you heel the boat by working with the mainsheet, or by simply bending over your upper body. Furthermore if you have ventilation on your foils or the boat jumps, the impact is way less dramatic if your crew is standing behind the daggerboard. If you follow this procedure you have maximum control over the boat and the ride hight. I which someone had told me that earlier. It took me 3 capsize videos to figure that out. 🤪🤣😂

@@born2sail That's very interesting, I sail a foiling A class, and I have always had slight negative lift on the rudders. I have tried with positive lift, but I found the sterns were popping out too early and I needed a lot of lift on the main foils to combat this. With the setup I have now, I find I can foil the boat with minimum lift and maintain high foiling mode in winds around 20kts. I've never really tried a safe foiling mode, however since I sail on a lake, I've never felt I needed to. Great video, and I look forward to the next one.

@@julianbosch1214 To be honest, with our rudders we couldn't go negative. The adjustment range just started very little more positive than 0. So it could be that we just adjusted our sailing mode to the possibility's the N17 had given us. But in general the better the teams the more lift they have on the rudders. But that could be an upwind foiling thing as well...

Glad you enjoyed it

On my boat, it seems the best thing to do is sheet in hard

A first person view with team comments could indeed be very helpful 👍😊

I certainly will sail more with the helmet camera in the future. Unfortunately not much racing going on since 2019... But I keep my eyes open when I scroll through the footage. Is there anything specific you want to learn from that footage? Maybe I can make a video about it?

@@ulrikvandenbulcke2651 Not sure if my German word and sentence fragments would help at all. Well most of the time I don't know what I am talking about when I hear me talking on the boat. Barbara has a special gift to understand what I'm meaning. I use a short "Achtung" followed by a 12 stone helmsman to give that word more heft.

@@born2sail a whole lot of years ago ... i once had 2 years german classes :o) who knows :o) teamwork is such a big deal on these boats, weight displacement, you have to work mainsheet/genaker /steering accordingly for stability while foiling.

I've planned to get one more video with all the information out. Since we started a new channel and the last year has been very busy I never found the time to finish the two videos and now it's easier to make a new one with the informations. If you are interested in our new project: ru-vid.com

The trick is that the boat only starts to foil if you and your crew are standing in the aft position and the boat is sailed flat. That gives you the maximum control over the boat. Then increase foil lift a tiny bit and first let the crew control the boat by running for and aft. Next step is to try to control the boat with the mainsheet. More heel mens less lift. The last step is to combine those two controllers options. The faster you go the more stable the foiling gets. Sorry for the late answer.

Unfortunately they are still on my hard drive waiting for the last few hours of editing. We just bought a tall ship and it's quite a project. The only thing I can promise is that part 2 and 3 will be published. I just need one or two days off for that project and I haven't figured out when that will be. Probably in 2 or 3 months.

@@born2sail Oki, thank you :)

@@niconnerie I hope the waiting period is not too for you. But as you see I respond to comments, so if you have any questions connected with foiling, sailing or catamarans please ask.