We’re always trying to improve all aspects of our craft. In this case, it’s more skirt tests.
In this first video, I managed to capture the performance of Owen’s Revolution running with a strong tailwind. The lake is quite shallow and, at this section, the wind is beginning to create 300mm waves at around 3m pitch. Extended segment skirts are not know to adapt much to the surface, but you can see they were doing a pretty passable job.
I was being shaken around so much I was surprised that I got any usable vision at all. Unfortunately my finger kept creeping over the lens.
This video is later in the day. We fitted four prototype segments around the front and took the craft out again, looking for those same conditions. Unfortunately the wind had died down a little and the waves weren’t as high. The ground contact point of these segments are much closer to the limit line but they appeared to behave quite normally. We are looking to find a skirt shape with just a bit more responsiveness (up and down float) but I think we can go further still.
We’re always trying to improve all aspects of our craft. In this case, it’s more skirt tests.
In this first video, I managed to capture the performance of Owen’s Revolution running with a strong tailwind. The lake is quite shallow and, at this section, the wind is beginning to create 300mm waves at around 3m pitch. Extended segment skirts are not know to adapt much to the surface, but you can see they were doing a pretty passable job.
I was being shaken around so much I was surprised that I got any usable vision at all. Unfortunately my finger kept creeping over the lens.
This video is later in the day. We fitted four prototype segments around the front and took the craft out again, looking for those same conditions. Unfortunately the wind had died down a little and the waves weren’t as high. The ground contact point of these segments are much closer to the limit line but they appeared to behave quite normally. We are looking to find a skirt shape with just a bit more responsiveness (up and down float) but I think we can go further still.
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Paul Moody