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- From: srgxnbs@grace.cri.nz
- Newsgroups: rec.windsurfing
- Subject: RE: Weird Windsurfer/Hydrofoil Thing
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 23:00:59 GMT
- Organization: Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand.
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- Message-ID: <1k4fs2INNjos@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>
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- >When he started moving fast, the ENTIRE board would lift out of the
- >water, sort of like a hydrofoil. The board would clear the water
- >by nearly a foot and a half (tail and all)!
- >
-
- I had a picture from an _old_ windsurf mag of a hydrofoil board
- sailing, and I think that Auckland University has done some research
- more recently on this, anyone up there confirm/expand/deny?
-
- Must be _very_ interesting steering one, remembering my early
- experiences with a long board when it started to plane with the
- centreboard still down!
-
- How big was the board and how flat was the water?
-
- regards
-
- Bruce
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