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Inside the mind of Xavier #1 | What if making boats fly is a dead end ?

Inside the mind of Xavier #1 | What if making boats fly is a dead end ?

18 Nov, 2020

From concept to mature technology, the development of foils and foiling boats spans 139 years. The French engineer Emmanuel Denis Farcot was the first, in 1869, to imagine boats able to lift off the water. The first successful foiling…

The Swiss challenger in pursuit of the World Sailing Speed Record helms its first prototype

The Swiss challenger in pursuit of the World Sailing Speed Record helms its first prototype

5 Nov, 2020

How do you build a prototype when the world has stopped turning and everyone has to stay at home? As the first confinement measures were being announced in March of 2020, nobody at SP80 really had an answer to this question…

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