This may be the future of fast sailing. It seems that history is all but overlooking “Paul Ricard” Eric Taberly’s foiling trimaran built in the 1980’s. Materials were not readily available, i.e. carbon fibre, and while the boat performed quite well, setting records she was heavy by today’s standards, having been constructed of aluminum.
I am often repeating myself stating that we should acknowledge those who went first; blazing the path which was then much easier to follow.
HYDROPTERE, THE FUTURE OF SAILING?
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Good luck to them in the ocean. The first hydrofoil sailboat that i’m aware of was built in Bell’s workshop and sailed on the Bras d’Or Lakes, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, between about 1900 and 1908, about the same time as Bell and Baldwin’s various aircraft.