Things to do while home isolation and social distancing are the norm

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One recurring problem with plywood foils, centreboards, leeboards and rudders is that over time they tend to break unexpectedly.

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Make excellent and accurate foils (centreboard, leeboard, keel or rudder blade) adding way more performance for not much effort and no cost - series

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It is not difficult to build a hydrofoil stabilised dinghy - Also a model for information sharing so everyone is not always reinventing the wheel

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Hydrofoil sailing is possible for homebuilt boats. It can be used to reduce heeling so the crew doesn't have to work so hard.

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When a boat owner considers upgrading their boat to make it safer and get more performance, often the first thought is for new sails which is expensive, but a cheap hack is to improve the foils (centreboard or leeboard) which might take little more than a couple of weekends and cost around 50 bucks.

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Owner: I am not much interested in racing, but there is no motor mount on this boat, and there never will be. I hate rowing, so the boat has to be able to take me where I want to go under sail. The foils were the first step-this sail completes the journey. :)

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Foiling for the mainstream. Part 1 focussed on the bleeding edge, but that is a minority of sailors. This part reports on work done on foilers that are stable, easy to sail and don't do dramatic crashes. Boats for the mainstream

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I found myself at Foiling Week 2018 in Sydney. There are two groups involved in foiling with a large gulf between them. The out and out high expense group who see themselves as the future of sailing. The other group is much more interesting to me as it looks at the stability and handling advantages of foiling which are only just starting to be explored.

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How we discovered our box boat designs were good ... and how they (or any other boat can reach its potential for very small extra effort. It is mostly in the thinking!

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