F18 Design: Who is Martin Fischer?
Now that the beachcat community is mesmerized by the new Hobie F18, I tried to gather more info regarding her designer beyond being the Capricorn mastermind along with Greg Goodall of AHPC:“Dr. Martin Fischer, Phd in fluid dynamics. Martin is a renowned expert in the field of high performance multihull design and the optimisation of
appendices. He has been a member of the design team for Groupama-2 and Groupama-3 and he was in charge of the development of the appendices for
the ORMA-60 trimaran Banque Populaire and the maxi trimaran Sodebo. Furthermore he designed the Capricorn, an innovative Formula-18 catamaran
that won the world championship in 2006″
As published by TLB Architecture Navale for Martin´s work on the TLB 40.
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