Sail Innovation Loft defines their F18 platform for 2010 Worlds

Photo: Alex Udin – Hobie Wildcat designed by Martin Fischer is the platform of choice for SI

Photo: Alex Udin – Alex and Fischer at the center.

Photo: Alex Udin

Photo: Alex Udin- Forgot to ask Alex if they recovered from this one!

Photo: Alex Udin
By Alex Udin – CEO of Sailing Innovation
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“Training session with Martin Fischer, (Hobie Wildcat and Capricorn designer)
Following the several testing sessions done during the last 2 months, we finally decided to go for the Wild Cat for the coming season. According to the team we think the boat is really faster downwind than the Capricorn and more all round.
After choosing the Wild Cat, Martin Fischer contacted us knowing we were using 2 of his “babies”. He had a lot of interest in our project and proposed us his help to reach our target on one of his boat.

Martin came to visit us during our training session last week end. It was really interesting to get him on board of a motor boat watching all the team sailing and sharing all the feed back during the de-briefing. 6 boats were training in 15 to 20 knots in a really cold weather (5°c) we were all freezing.

We have been working all together on our main development programs on the boat, the appendices, the masts and the sails.
Martin is not only a fluid dynamic engineer but also a really good sailor, he is able to fully understand the feedback of the sailors and find some solutions with a scientific and practical know how.
We have determined with him the main development axes for the future, in order to focus on the most important points that make the difference in terms of performance.
All the team was very proud to meet one of the world greatest architect of multi hulls, it was a extremely fructuous meeting helping the crews to better understand how the boat has been designed.
We are looking forward to get him sailing with us, and probably compete with him in Erquy for the F18 World’s.”