|
This Rave with every option, upgrades, spare sails, and parts and custom
trailer, is offered at a price of $7500US. A new boat is around $20k. For complete information please see "Details"
on the navigation column on the left of this page.
Rave Foiling Movie #1
Movie #2
Movie #3
Movie #4: A Walk-Around of this Rave in the water near Cape Canaveral, Florida
deanhubb@yahoo.com
35mph/30.4 knots/56.3 km/hr
You can go faster if you wish to test the limits of the rig.
<<Note the navigation topics at the top left side of the page.
This page will show you how to build a system to lift the ama foils while seated in the cockpit. Do not be
intimidated by the apparent complexity of this system. You can use this (admittedly) over-the-top system as a guide
for your own more simple design.
The photo below shows most of the uphaul system on my boat. It's operation and instructions for it's duplication
are all here.
If you need to ask any questions, e-mail me at deanhubb@yahoo.com or go the the Windrider Forum, the "Windrider Yacht Club" at this URL:
| Length |
|
17' / 5.2 m |
| Beam (foil tip to foil tip) |
|
17'/ 5.2 m |
| Beam on Trailer |
|
7'6" / 2.3 m |
| Weight (total) |
|
400 lbs. / 182 kg |
| Mast Height |
|
25' / 7.6 m |
| Total Sail Area |
|
195 sq ft. / 18 m2 |
Addl. Sail Area w/
Optional Reacher |
|
+97 sq ft. / +9 m2 |
| Draft (foils up) |
|
1' / .3 m |
| Draft (foils down) |
|
4' / 1.2 m |
| Capacity |
|
400 lbs. / 182 kg |
| Designer |
|
Dr. Sam Bradfield / Hydrosail, Inc. and Nigel Irens |
| Introduced |
|
1998 |
My boat uses a foil uphaul system that allows the Rave pilot to raise the ama foils from the pilot's seat and it also
gives the skipper the ability to manually adjust the flaps to any angle which is advantageous while hullborne in order to
reduce drag .
The result of this installation will allow the pilot to raise and lower, at will, the ama T-foils from
the seat and to adjust the flaps on those foils to whatever angle you may need for any particular point of
sail.
| Wide Boat. Narrow Skipper. |
|
|
| Nov. 7, 2004: Just south of Cape Canaveral, Florida |
| Control Deck: A Very Busy Playpen |
|
|
