New foiling dinghy: The Ifly
Sent by Devic Hervé — “Our company has developed a Flying dinghy called “Ifly” .
The all project came from an idea of Sebastien Col (one of the most successful french sailor)
The Ifly has been designed during summer and Autumn 2014 by what I will call the Ifly design team:
– Sam Manuard (naval designer),
– Dimitri Despierres (Naval engineer, under contract with Oracle team),
– Sebastien col (as manager )
– Hervé Devic (boat builder, manager of Tocatec ) .
In January 2016 the first “Ifly” was launched . With the fine tune of Sebastien Col the” Ifly ” shows a very good stable flight .
The original idea was to provide a new flying dinghy to young sailors (the actual choice is: Laser, 420, 29er !!!!!) Then we enlarge the specs to 80 kg .
We are still in development , but we should be ready to deliver the first “Ifly” by the end of September 2016
you can see the “Ifly” on facebook : facebook.com/Ifly.eu/?ref=ts&fref=ts
and on the website : www.ifly.eu.com
also on facebook : facebook.com/Tocatec-Herv%C3%A9-Devic-446353365556989/?fref=ts
Attached one picture of the Ifly during a sailing test in January 2016. “
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I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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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