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FloWinGo started life as a Kurt Hughes 4 Meter. The original design was significantly modified. Three iterations were built with the final goal of placing a wing on the last hull. They use Hobie 14 rigs, booms, and rudder with a sunfish daggerboard.They are a ball to sail. The third boat, “FloWinGo” has mast step options for 3 different rigs. Only the soft sail Hobie is completed. The “Pilot Pod” has accomodation for a Hobie mast, a 2” pipe for a wing mast/wishbone boom rig, and two 2” Harken rudder bearings for a rigid wing sail. I hope to have the wing done by summer 2008. In the mean time, I am sailing these boats at the Punta Gorda Sailing Club small boat racing events at the north end of Charlotte Harbor. The boats all max out a little above 9 knots. The wind pressure needed to allow that speed then tends to overcome the boyancy of the amas. The low boyance amas are actually a safety feature as the boat slowly rolls and submerges an ama before it lifts the main hull. I will be trying an experiment to increase the potential speed. The amas of FloWinGo, Blue Moon and Wicked Wanda will be fitted with “Surface Foils”. FloWinGo’s foils are being fitted to the bows attached to a splashed “Nose Cone”. Blue Moon has foils at the forward cross beam and Wicked Wanda’s foils will also be nose cone foils. See the pictures below for the stage of this modification. |
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