Great build! You know, in high school my shop teacher taught us something: "Form Follows Function". Had to think about that and I came up with my brain's translation: style takes a back seat to performance! The fact that your hydrofoils ain't pretty - that can be fixed later! IT WORKS !!! Be jumbl pproud of that!!! NOICE BUILD!!?!

Way to stay after the dream, great job

Cool project👍

Superb video, the world need more people like you showing people it can be done

Wow, amazing work. That little boat is quite fast with a 3.5hp motor!

Nice job Tim! We've done a couple dinghy (motored and sailing) with foils but never had the patience to document beyond a couple pics. FYI - if you're looking for a quicker build of the foils search for foam airfoils made for RC aircraft. You get an exact foil out of foam that's easy to coat with glass or carbon fiber...

Well done

masts may be the way to go to reduce drag for the vertical supports. Great build all the same as it stands. Thanks for documenting it for us Cheers Frankie

Very nice. That's quite impressive. Thank you for sharing your creation.

Hi Tim Very interesting project and more power to you for evolving the design continuously. You could check out Clearwater Hydrofoils. He has a parts kit for $139 usd that you just have to glass up that includes front and rear wings fuselage and a mast. He will sell you the individual parts too I believe. A mast may be the wa

Soo sick! I got a dream on making one of these!

Loved the video Tim, and your idea for the rails that make trying various configuration easy. I wonder if a big reason you don't get more speed is that the propeller was designed to push a non-foiling boat. You need one with a larger (steeper) pitch... assuming the foiling drag would be equal to a displacement hull drag at a larger forward velocity, you would need a different pitch to produce the same thrust at the max RPM. I hope you are still working on similar projects!

I know nothing of hydrofoils, but the aerospace engineer in me wonders if your airfoil is not a bit too thick considering the density of water vs. air. A thicker airfoil will get you lift at a lower speed, but at the penalty of more drag once you get to a certain speed. Also, your wings are very long - if you compare to something like the Quadrofoil, it only has a tiny lifting surface for a similar weight and power. But then again, it's not like you were hopping out of the water, so my guess is that it was the airfoil shape limiting your speed, rather than the wing length or properllor pitch. Really cool project, and good food for thought - thanks for sharing!

Great share. Thank you!

Well done dude.

You guys rock.

I love it.

Very interesting and impressive. I like your small boat designs, the Noosa is like something I designed 20 years ago only the outer panels of the hull have deadrise to them. Never did build it...

Superb !

impressive!

Amazing

As a long time boater, I can see one major problem with hydrofoils. Running aground can be dangerous. Years ago a commercial passenger hydrofoil clipped the channel in St. Thomas killing several passengers and causing injuries to the rest.

What about the central hull design itself...looks interesting, esp. that little forward cuddy which itself has tapered panels that are pretty cool

Thanks for posting this. I have a similar goal with the same power, but less weight then what you're lifting. Gives me hope that it can happen!

Can't wait to see what you do next!

I know this is an old post but thanks just the same.

Фантастика!

Isso é muito interessante, eu tenho um barco de madeira e gostaria de instalar um sistema igualmente esse, estava instalado um scania de 360hp, agora vou instalar um mtu 550hp gostaria de pudesse me ajudar, abraço amigo

Nice 😀

you said it didn't go much faster, but i'm curious if it was more fuel efficient ....or was there still just too much drag?

any onshore videos of the boat moving? what angle of attack did you use on the foils?

Great job mate, :0)

this was very cool i just have one question im trying to build my own hydrofoil for my boat and id like to know the angle you used for the v foil

what is the speed difference in comparison with the first non-flying variant?

Do you want to share your knowledge with me and send me the plans to build the same.? Greetings from Australia 👍

how does he only have 39 subs

well done man, your not a kiwi import are ya

Are the hyrofoil plans included with the boat plans. Small boat plans.