+1 on that.
I like the concept of
1+1
on the 101, as I can get the little hooligans up and comfortable with foiling before someone puts it in their head that they have to learn how to sail an Opti (shudder)
In my opinion, most boats are pretty easy to steer these days, so anything I can pull strings on while they pull the tiller can work. They have a good time on Waves.
Yes, I am mixing the multihull kool-aide for them. Call me a bad parent <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />
Jay, I don't have children, at least none have come looking for me yet, but if I did I would definitely steer them into sailing and nudge them into performance sailing. Today that means foiling or boarding (or iceboating up here but you still have to sail in the summer) and since I am too old to learn kite sailing that means foiling. The F101's design brief sounds just right to me. I met some other older sailors at Newport last September who were: 1) way more optimistic than me, 2) less patient than me, 3) dumb as rocks, or 4) something else because they purchased a Moth so that they could go foiling. They were at Foiling Week because that went so badly for them but they still wanted to go foiling. I had sailed a 29er maybe 10 years ago and that was enough acrobatic sailing for me to already know that I should not even attempt the Moth so I had an advantage in making that decision.
Long-winded way of explaining that I think you are not a bad parent and I would likely do the same. I might encourage kite sailing once they were older kids since that can be done on soft and hard water, snow, and on the hard and all the gear can be transported in the trunk or the rooftop. But then they would still have to get a foil board so they would foil either way!
The foils should be retractable so that the boat can be launched from a regular trolley in shallow water
Mike, any info on this trolley?
videos? pictures?
I did see a little trolley picture/rendering on their website... I was hoping it would double as a road trailer, too so I can unhook it from the truck and drag it on the beach thereby removing the hassle from the police about having a trailer parked on the road..
So it would have to be aluminum with some sort of fat street tire, light enough to move around in sand, but sturdy enough to travel at 45 mph (local roads)
So it would have to be aluminum with some sort of fat street tire, light enough to move around in sand, but sturdy enough to travel at 45 mph (local roads)
So you plan on getting one?
I can't wait to come down for a ride (or you can bring it up here) <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />
leaning heavily toward something like that or the UFO... Love the trimaran I have right now as it carries up to 5 crew... but it doesn't foil and I can't move it on beach wheels <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />
You need bigger beach wheels!
or just add them to your tri
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I was considering something along those lines (beach wheels for Fboat) if only to make it to the EC launch point.
You can see the trolley they designed for the boat (they went through 3 iterations before being satisfied and it comes with the boat) on their FB site and lots of other photos and videos. Look here:
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Thanks Mike
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This trailer looks about right. If it's aluminum and fatter tires it would have potential for me to drag it across the sugarsand beaches we have here in SW FL
Does that double as the launch wheels?
I kinda like that french jet fighter camouflage pattern on a boat! (yes, I know it's just stretch wrap but still...).