Hydroptere: New foiler design
From www.Hydroptere.ch
Major design analysis is that they are going from a Tri platform to a cat one.
With two main hulls supporting the foils and two hydrofoil style rudders.
Stability should be main issue here, and now the designers are seeking for a more stable platform with 4 working foils instead of 3 as the current Hydroptere has.
Interesting point is the central commanding pod, current boat has skipper seats on each amas arm.
Although 1st scaled prototype will have SYZ foiler style deck conf.
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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