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Re: Other: hydro foil kayak
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/1/2013, 12:08 am
In Response To: Re: Other: hydro foil kayak (Matt Jakubek)

You'd need a really skinny K1 like boat to minimize drag to start with. I'd bet you'd have roughly double the drag until the hull clears the water and wonder also how much power you'd have left over after this happens, perhaps not enough to stay up on the foils, certainly not for long.

Bill H.

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Other: hydro foil kayak
Dan Murn -- 9/30/2013, 4:55 pm
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Paul Davies -- 9/30/2013, 6:35 pm
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Matt Jakubek -- 9/30/2013, 10:53 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/1/2013, 12:08 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/1/2013, 5:43 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/1/2013, 10:01 am
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Bob Johns -- 10/1/2013, 6:12 am
Watch out for weeds... *NM*
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 10/1/2013, 11:36 am
Re: Watch out for weeds...
Bill Hamm -- 10/2/2013, 1:04 am
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Paul Davies -- 10/1/2013, 1:18 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 10/1/2013, 2:23 pm
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Sean Dawe -- 10/1/2013, 8:24 pm
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Paul Davies -- 10/1/2013, 8:58 pm
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Dan Murn -- 10/1/2013, 9:48 am
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dave koslow -- 10/1/2013, 2:13 pm
Re: Other: hydro foil kayak- airfoils
dave koslow -- 10/1/2013, 2:34 pm
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Les Cheeseman -- 10/1/2013, 4:01 pm
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dave koslow -- 10/1/2013, 4:55 pm
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Paul Davies -- 10/1/2013, 5:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/2/2013, 1:16 am
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Bob Johns -- 10/1/2013, 5:48 pm