i was following the iFoil to see where it would go
liked the idea of multiple foils
less stress on fin boxes
however, the company seemed to disappear off the map
too $$$ ??
ifoil website is gone in early 2019
and parent company tomahawk foils dissolved in December of 2017 - oh well :-(
Exocet seemed to leaning towards a multiple foil model too, but ???
Inherent pitch stability. It won't porpoise. Do that same configuration with a bigger floaty board and you have the ideal rig to infect beginners with the foiling disease.
looks to me that the front plate skims the water, therefore bouncing in chop, it defies one of the advantages of foiling
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Inherent pitch stability. It won't porpoise. Do that same configuration with a bigger floaty board and you have the ideal rig to infect beginners with the foiling disease.
Not really. What it does is make it slower to respond to pitch adjustments as well so once you go into launch mode, much harder to get out. Same thing already exists with longer fuselages: they are more stable but also require earlier input so in, say, steeper chop, one almost has to anticipate rather than react to pitch movements. You see it in Moths with their wands - when the wand doesn't respond quick enough and things go bad.
For many, the ideal rig is just a big slow wing
