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Wave Piercing is already the defacto standard in beach cats racing hulls.
The extreme rake of the new Hobie F18, reminds me the radical US Navy ship.
Now we are also seeing this extreme design in Navy ships like the Zumwalt Class Destroyer.
Some interesting pics and videos below:
Maybe Martin Fsher is working for Northrop Grumman! who knows!
Video https://www.raytheon.com/broadcast/hull_form.asx
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I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
...Report was sent by an F18 Sailor, if you want Hobies reported send your own, we'll publish as usual. Cheers.
Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16
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Does this mean the new Hobies are gonna be stealth with ship to ship missles? That’s going to be hard to beat
Yes but Nacra is developing a missile defence sheld
are there any news on the missile systems? the last race sucked, so i thought i have to sort out my options.
Here's a missile system effective v. both Jetskis and Nacra flamers. : )
https://www.thebeachcats.com/OnTheWire/westnet/_lpm/hobie/archives/v1-i2/humor.html