Scarecrow, I greatly appreciate your input. Your recommendations are spot on to what I was thinking. It makes me feel a lot more secure in my decision on cord and foil thickness.
You are correct in assuming it is for an adult driving from the wire...but I will have a bit more righting moment as my planned beam was originally 8'-0
(2.439m) but now considering the loss of righting moment due to the curved foils, I am considering bumping it out to 8'-6
(2.59m).
My only
off the water
upper limitation as to width is legal trailer width, which is 8'-6" (2.59m) in my area.
This is not a svelte F14. There is a lot of volume in the hulls. Although not really designed as a two man boat, my intent was to be able to accommodate a passenger on occasion.
Be careful not to make it too wide. Overly stable boats are boring when there is no wind you don't want to wait until 15 knots before you get on trapeze
Good point Scarecrow....definitely something to keep in mind.
Jumped my curved dagger board discussion over to the Home Boat Building section of the forum in an effort to scare up some good brainstorming of ideas...