L'Hydroptere foiling trimaran departs on record attempt LA to Honolulu

From the following update on Sailing Scuttlebutt:

http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015/06/22/foiling-from-los-angeles-to-honolulu/

(June 22, 2015) – Alain Thébault (FRA) and a 5-man crew on the 60-foot foiling trimaran L’Hydroptère left today in an attempt to beat the transpacific speed record from Los Angeles to Honolulu, Hawaii. The outright record for the 2215nm distance of 04:19:31:37 was set in November 2005 by skipper Olivier de Kersauson (FRA) and crew on the 110-foot trimaran Geronimo.

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The yellowbrick tracker is here:

http://my.yb.tl/Hydropterehawaii

Another interesting article on L'Hydroptere's departure by Kimball Livingston:

http://www.blueplanettimes.com/a-tender-spot/

Gitana team relaunch MOD70 trimaran with experimental lifting foil setup

From the following update on the Gitana team website:

 

http://www.gitana-team.com/en/event.news.aspx?eventid=95&newsid=1109

 

In refit since her return from the West Indies back in December, the Multi70 Edmond de Rothschild left the cosy atmosphere of her technical base in Lorient this Wednesday morning to return to the liquid element. Benefiting from the first tide of the day and the summery weather, it didn’t take long for the members of Gitana Team to release the carbon machine, which is now safely tied to the dock at the Keroman submarine base. This launch is synonymous with the start of phase two of a project initiated in early 2014 by the team created by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild: namely the mission to make the Multi70 the first flying trimaran on the offshore racing circuit.

An adventure in two chapters

Back in 2014, true to its philosophy, the team created in 2000 by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild paved the way by opting to kit out its 70-foot trimaran with lifting surfaces on the float rudders. The aim at that time was to participate in the 10^th edition of the famous Route du Rhum and hence cross the Atlantic singlehanded. It was a bold challenge! Indeed, besides the technical development required by such a project, on the water the human commitment was significant since Sébastien Josse would have to compete against the giants of the Ultime class; the largest of which measured twice the size of the Multi70…

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Video of the newly launched Catri 25 prototype trimaran on it's first test sail in light conditions

Perspective Yacht Design, construction of tooling for new Exocet Extrem 19 foiling trimaran underway

The new Exocet Extrem 19 trimaran designed by Phil Roulin of Perspective Yacht Design is under construction in Marseille.  The first photo of the process show the CNC machined plug for the float halves.

Perspective Yacht Design have a frequently updated Facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Perspective-Yacht-Design/337817499613149

CNC machined float halves (plug), photo courtesy Perspective Yacht Design

Exocet Extrem 19 trimaran, render courtesy Perspective Yacht Design

Video from Stephen Walker of Ahoy Boats showing delivery of Catri24 hydrofoil trimaran from Latvia to England

And the description from the video is below:

Sailing a fast hydrofoil trimaran is easy if it is designed well, like this CATRI. Checkout http://ahoy-boats.net/why-trimarans-a... to learn more about Why Trimarans are so FAST and why they are more practical than hydrofoiling catamarans. In 2005 Steve Walker, founder of Ahoy-Boats, http://www.ahoy-boats.co.uk, delivered TARDIS, so named because she was amazingly spacious inside (5 berths!) and she looked like a space ship from the future, all the way from Ventspils in Latvia to England via, Gotland, through a full gale to Öland, onto the beautiful island of Hanö, then through fog to Ystad (home of fictional character Wallander), the tiny fishing port of Skåre hamn in Sweden on mid-summer's eve, then to Gedser in Denmark, Kiel, (during Kiel week), through the canal to Brunsbüttel and down the Elbe to Cuxhaven in Germany, then along the Friesland coast to Nordeney, Vlieland, (see blog entries for June 2005 here: http://www.ahoy-boats.info/archives/s...) then the island of Texel, the seaside resort of Scheveningen in the Netherlands whereafter another gale was encountered and shelter sought at Stellendam before the final two legs to Ostend and across the English Channel to Dover (see blog entries for July 2005 here: http://www.ahoy-boats.info/archives/s...). In 2014 you will again be able to buy a CATRI hydrofoiling trimaran! However, this time is will be 100% instead of 90% foiling and will be available as a 25ft or 28ft boat. The CATRI foiling trimaran concept is much safer than the crazy America's Cup AC72 catamarans, which were not designed for real sailors who go to sea but for publicity. The new CATRI trimarans will be available with automatic sheet release systems so as to prevent capsize and the foils support the boat in such a way as to prevent pitchpole,http://www.ahoy-boats.info/Safety-Sta..., rather than to cause it. Afterwards TARDIS was anchored overnight at Dungeness, sailed past the Seven Sisters and Brighton to Littlehampton and thence through the Solent & past Bournemouth to Poole for the Goathorn Regatta. She is now in the USA near Chesapeake Bay.