Offshore foiling on its way - OnCourse Episode 13
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2021
- It may look like an America’s Cup boat, but this is the first of what could be the next generation of inshore/offshore foiling machines. Designed for racing in offshore and coastal races in the Mediterranean ‘Flying Nikka’ is no pipe dream - she’s already in build for a private owner and due to be launched Spring 2022. We talk to her designer Mark Mills.
Plus, how many is too many aboard an IMOCA60? Having raced fully crewed aboard Offshore Team Germany and won the IMOCA60 class in The Ocean Race Europe, Olympic and round the world sailor Annie Lush explains.
We take a look at the Round the Island Race as well as looking back at what happened in the third and final offshore leg of The Ocean Race Europe.
Plus, the link between superyachts and McDonalds and plenty more in Docktalk.
01:00 Foiling future - ‘Flying Nikka’
13:27 Docktalk Part 1
16:33 Fully crewed on an IMOCA60
22:53 Docktalk Part 2
26:02 The Ocean Race Europe - Leg 3
29:52 Round The Island Race
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over six months ago I predicted that someone somewhere is building an offshore foiling monohull that will break records in a way we can't conceive right now. The last new supermaxi offshore record smasher was Comanche and that was a good few years ago now. I doubt anyone has lost interest in breaking records like the trans Atlantic, S-H or Jules Verne so it seems odd that no one has launched a new 'record breaker' for a while. its been my suspicion for a while that there a number of big offshore foiling monohulls being built in top secret around the world and this is just the first to be revealed. very exciting and im sure more to come. great episode. thanks for keeping the adverts a little more tolerable.
Utterly ridiculous levels of exceptional production quality and incredibly informative.
Maybe if you replace those outboard foils with wings, you could eliminate all hydrodynamic drag. It might be a bit unstable, but you could implement a computer-controlled robotic crew that would apply tuning tweeks every microsecond. To stay within the rules, you could power the computer as well as the hydraulics from the pedestals. Larry Ellison already has this in build (so I hear) because if you can't win while sailing, just redefine your terms. He was considering buying a supertanker with a flat bow to push a wave in the direction that his boat needs to go, so it could always be surfing, but he couldn't find a supertanker that did 45 knots.
I was sailed out at a young age by an over enthusiastic Father but I love to watch sailing from a dry and stable distance. Keep up the good work.
Great insight into the foiling yacht and I love analogy with windsurfing and also with younger sailors, it's spot on.
Great video. I particularly liked the interview with Mark Mills.
Ka pai, Thanks for another great instalment Matt.
Who would have guessed that the 21st century was going to be such a huge leap forward for sailing. Everything from foiling cup boats to kite hydrofoiling to wing foiling. Every year or so there is some new innovation that upsets the apple cart.
Loving your episodes and updates!
Thank you sir!
Your content is excellent and very professional… keep it up 👍
Offshore foiling in big swells will be interesting.
Another great episode, Matt.
I am looking forward to seeing this technology make it into a cruising design with automated controls for stability. I would love to see how it would work in the open ocean (transatlantic or transpacific.
Fantastic and informative episode on foiling developments. Thank you! I for one, who has always been somewhat of a traditionalist that loves the gaffers, Pilot Cutters, Fifes and the like, am all for the further evolution of all things sailing. It would be fantastic to see the commercial application of foiling technology to affordable recreational cruising blue water boats! I wonder what those designs would look like...
Cool, will look forward to see how ‘Flying Nikka’ develops. 😎 🇦🇺
During AC 36 renowned american sailor Ken Read was asked how much of monohull foiling technology would trickle down to other forms of sailing. Ken said it would be a lot more than you would think and this is playing out now with yachts like Flying Nikka and another larger one under design. We have a fascinating few years ahead to see where this technology extends as it is alloyed with AI and advanced automation .
Top report thank you