Foiling Catamarans made the front page of the Wall Street's Off Duty Section today. Explains how the Flying Phantom Essential for $23,000 may help make foiling mainstream. Anyone seen one in action?
http://www.wsj.com/itp/20170422/us/offduty
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Todays Wall Street Journal - Flying Phantom Essential
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Posted: Apr 22, 2017 - 09:12 AM
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Posted: Apr 23, 2017 - 10:50 PM
The premise of the article seems to me to be far from the mark. $23,000 without wing seats or spinnaker or shipping across the ocean is not tempting to buy a 380 lb boat. The carbon Whisper at half the weight is proof of that with a similar price point producing 40 boats in two years time. The boat that will make foiling mainstream is the UFO with 60 orders plus a container to go to Australia (where the dollar is 1.37) and a price of $7600 plus shipping. The reports of great stability, car top ability, early foiling of this 110 lb craft is what mainstream is about. Pete -
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Posted: Apr 24, 2017 - 09:53 AM
great vid on the wall street webpage. since i don't subscribe i couldn't read the article... but this price point is non-issue with the WSJ subscriber demographic
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Posted: Apr 24, 2017 - 02:46 PM
Maybe something along the lines of the UFO, but the lines of the UFO are a huge stumbling block. A nicer looking boat would make a WORLD of difference. I understand the Clarks and many other consider that non-sense but its something that should be taken very seriously IMO.
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Posted: Apr 24, 2017 - 03:40 PM
I would like to try one - but i have no interest in owning a UFO - much (MUCH) more interested in 2 person catamaran (not to mention foiling is a no-go in my neck of the woods, lots of shallows, tons of sea-grass and other really weird things that grow in the waters around here - like these grape-like things, and strings ands strips of algie that foul our boards) -
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Posted: Apr 26, 2017 - 10:16 AM
Gotta make a shoutout for the Whisper, which I own, and sail. Essentially, the same segment as the Essentiel aims for. A fantastic boat, and about half the weight of the Essentiel (carbon fiber FTW!). Videos of our adventures at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoO1STST8XYRKpt4hfFSSxvsRftKCIA58
Hats off to Phantom's marketing
