Design
Sportfoil
Designed by Michael Stevenson
A home-built hydrofoil, which is a rare enough thing that there were more of them about when this was drawn in the early 1970s than there are plans for now. It began as an experimental sailing hydrofoil, and that version only got up on the foils in certain conditions and could not tack, so the company switched to power and the Sportfoil is what came out.
Because she is a very lightly loaded foil she needs very little engine: outboards of 5 to 15 hp give good performance, and the original photographs show her flying behind 5.5 hp. The design is old and the company says so, but it remains one of the few ways for somebody to find out in their own shop what it is like to fly a boat.
What building a Sportfoil actually takes
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Builds of this boat
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