World's Most Advanced Hydrofoil Boats Fly Above Water

World's Most Advanced Hydrofoil Boats Fly Above Water
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With razor-sharp hydrofoil catamarans that help them hit speeds of 60 miles an hour, the athletes of SailGP are pushing the limits of physics and human endurance. Claire Reilly goes out on the water to see the race in action.

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0:00 – What is SailGP?
1:18 – SailGP’s F50 sailboat: What it is and how it’s built
2:37 – How hydrofoils work
3:49 – Team USA captain Jimmy Spithill
4:35 – F50 crew positions
5:45 – Team USA strategist CJ Perez
8:00 – The sound from an F50 hydrofoil
8:50 – F50 sailboat sensors and the data they collect
10:15 – The future of SailGP
10:50 – SailGP season 2 grand final results

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39 Comments

  1. Did you know that vessels with underwater wings wer first invented and constructed in the USSR in 1960s. The name of inventor is Rostislav Alexeyev. Unfortunately, in 21 century Russia made nothing good…

  2. @6:11 … "making sure we don't crash into any body" … "which has happened a lot this past season"

    annnnnd her job is to stop the boat crashing into other boats … b.b.b.buuut the boat has crashed into other boats "a lot" this past season lol … sooooo, she's not doing her job right? at 18 years old, I wonder what her credentials are? awesome spot of such a young person, though hope she gets better at the job lol

  3. Правда я 99,9% объяснений на английском не понял. Догадывался по картинкам.
    Но, всё равно понравилось!
    Спасибо

  4. Who invented the fully submerged foil can anybody tell me a company made 28 of them the only boat in the world that takes three gyros to operate these boats were made from 74 to 86

  5. How reasonable would these designs be for cruising boats?? I’d love to redo the circumnav flying the trades doing the long ocean passages 8knots x 6!

  6. I’m surprised the drug cartel doesn’t use these and have four in tandem then the coast guard would be thinking it was a race 😅….TEAM COLUMBIA

  7. So cool. No surprise that the captain grew up soloing a Hobie 16. I wish the video showed longer clips instead cutting every three seconds. The boats are exciting enough without flashy editing!

  8. I wish to see such a boat being built without modern tech. No CF composites, no industrial level stuff.
    Taking the basic nature materials and trying to achieve as best of a result.
    Any of these teams has the knowhow and the funds to spare on such a project i propose.
    I'd love to see them using pacific island tribal level of materials or any other place for that matter, to create similar designs, or as best as possible according to the materials capabilities.
    I wonder

  9. .. imagine you are a orca..
    .. these hydrofoil yachts are a danger for orcas and whales.. these yachts are superfast and silent the keel swords and rudders are very dangerous for these animals.. i have seen a video of a racing yacht going very fast it hit something or someone with the keel or the rudder.. then the crew looked into the camera they sailed on they did not return to see if the hurt a orca or a whale.. very possible the orcas want to make us see this..

  10. Awesome, but too much work. I'll get only when AI has start operating it and all I need to do be just connect a $30 controller and move easily and intuitively.

  11. Great boat. Great race. The course is braindead. The race seem like 8000 metres in length when it should be factors larger. Perhaps 100x larger. For context, the Indy 500 is 500 miles or ~800 kms so the SailGP course is 1% of the Indy 500. People will be dying in this race since the boats will collide a lot. Someone will be hit dead on by a hull at some point. Despite the strategist which is a highly sensible addition to the format.
    I suppose its exciting to see boats neck and neck but shipping these boats around the world for what would be a 10 to 15 minute race. And finally what type of skill especially in reading the wind can happen in 15 minutes. It's dumb luck. And heres another race comparison the Bermudes 1000 is …… 1000 kms. Twice that of the Indy 500.
    A decent trade off would be a course of 20 km to 25km in length and run it 10 times will keep it exciting and permit some changes in wind that sailors need to consider.
    Otherwise love it.

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