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Originally Posted by trfour
Over eighty feet long, held the water speed record from 1920, into the early sixtys, for this size boat! Twinn V 12 aircraft engines, and the wooden props that propelled her, were disigned by the inventer, him self. This Boat would have sailed sooner, the boat was ready, 1900, but the inventer had to work with the US Gouvernment on the design of the engines, as well.
Does hydrafoil, come to mind?
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Funny how it looks like the Russian ekranoplans mentioned earlier in this year on this forum
I did a little research on my musing above and while the idea wasn't explicitly found there was a concept similar enough. Sailing hydrofoils abound and use their lifting foils to sail w/less heeling and more speed. I had imagined a single non-lifting foil in place of a center or dagger -board. Because the foil would counter act the heeling forces you wouldn't need the extra ballast weight and so be "truer" to the Mac26 concept. Of course the problem is that a sailboat must handle both port and starboard tacks and so a normal foil shape won't do. I was envisioning some complex ways of reshaping the foil in real-time but the (already extant) idea of using a trim tab on the -board does the same thing (conceptually). As I always say 99% of ideas are useless and 99% of the remaining 1% have already been done
