A decision has been made on Loco's 2nd lifting foil, which is a modification to the existing main foil and means I need a replacement foil to keep sailing when it all goes pear shaped.
Does anyone have a spare board which might with some bodging be made to fit Loco's fairly wide slot?
I am also looking at making a foil using a class mould, if one proves suitable.
I will be mounting a simple, fixed lifting foil on the current daggerboard about 30-40cm below the waterline and you can laugh as I crash hilariously on camera. What I hope to learn is whether fitting a simple adjustable trim tab, without active trimming might result in good control in a range of conditions.
Setting the angle of attack will be the challenge but I have a plan.
I am ignoring launching issues currently - long term I'm thinking that coming in with a partially raised board and capsizing (which is what we often do now) is not too big a price to pay and for launching ditto, which is slightly more of a pain.
I debated with Ade and Tom fitting a lifting foil to the end of the daggerboard but it was clear Loco was likely to pop onto foils quite quickly and this would likely be uncontrollable except with a very small foil which wouldn't give sufficient foil assist, particularly upwind, until quite high speeds.
Here goes...
