Construit pentru cursele medii în stil maxi de distanță lungă, faceți cunoștință cu primul maxi de foiling Flying Nikka. Toby Hodges a avut o primă velă exclusivă, cu…
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Construit pentru cursele medii în stil maxi de distanță lungă, faceți cunoștință cu primul maxi de foiling Flying Nikka. Toby Hodges a avut o primă velă exclusivă, cu…
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I am loving the design and overall the idea of foiling and all, but this engine noise is killing the whole vibe, hate it!
I'm going to try to win the "silliest comment award", here goes: it's amazing how this boat foils, and at this point, seeing the hull completely above the water, you wonder why the designer fitted a folding prop to this thing? I mean he could have saved a few hundred euros as a fixed prop would to the exact same thing for half the cost and no disadvantages!
Yeah, nice, but you really need bette forward looking sonars. At these speeds you bump a hering and need to a tow home.
Wow the interior is so clean of clutter with all the hoses so nicely managed.
could you do that with cargo ships..
Very impressive design and cost structure, the build looks muscular like a bodybuilder.
I shudder to think of the hazard of pitchpoling this boat in high seas.
Amazing technology.
Amazing engineering, really cool, and I would love to see one of these in real life.
Another fun thougth: besides the noise from the engine, the boat doesn't appear to make effective use of resources (diesel). It made me wonder – if the same 110 HP engine wer to drive a foiling motor boat, could a crew of 8 travel faster from A to B than on the flying Nikka? Likely, but of course, less style.
Excellent video Tobey. I couldn't agree more with your finale assessment of why it was built. We have to build better and faster. Right? I also like the vagabond look. 🤣👍
As usual. I hope to see more from you. Cheers.
Did it encounter low tides on pier?
Très impressionnant mais j’ai beaucoup de mal avec tous ces voiliers (Rambler 88, wild oats, Wally…..) qui doivent faire tourner un diesel en permanence pour alimenter l’hydraulique. Mais sinon quel bateau fantastique 👏🏻👏🏻
Amazing boat! Think they missed a trick with this starship though – a hydrogenerator on that keel would surely have provided enough power to run the hydraulics no problem.
best part of sailing is when you turn off the engine
Having the tractor engine noise reminds me of being on a motorboat. You could get a nice one for this money as well!!
looking forward to the coming years when this foiling tech starts appearing in cruising yachts
great boat, I would improve the deckdesign, it looks like motorhome
Love it. Going to ignore all the negative comments from the 6 knot crowd.
Absolutely fascinating.
why not just race airplanes fly 10' over the water. Give me 6-8-12 metre boats any day. Those flying boats are like NASCAR, we are just waiting for a crash. The best thing about the America Cup flying boats is betting on the races , they are so quick . To each his own I guess.