Originally Posted by Kennethsf
Originally Posted by samc99us
Trunks must be different than stock to handle the S board vs. C-board, so yes AoA etc. can be made an option.

As an upgrade kit this makes little sense with the Flying Phantom costing the same as a new Nacra F20c. Add a $5K+ foiling package to the F20c and its $5K more than a boat designed from the ground up to foil. Pegasus didn't have the Flying Phantom option when these were built, and I suspect picked up the F20c at a bargain basement price.


it's more the other way around, the Flying Phantom is a widened F18 [full displacement boat] while the F20C was designed with the curved foils to create semi foiling sailing as standard feature, so optimized to dip back en forth in the water


ETNZ did a lot of hull optimization; their initial hull shape, done without full-flying VPP analysis, was found perfectly optimized for full flying when they got the VPP working. This hull shape happens to mirror the Cirrus R pretty closely in rocker and volume. So, I would take the full flying Phantom over modifying a F20c. The F20c is designed to use the hull+foil to get into a semi-planning mode, so it is perhaps a little flatter further aft than ideal. Really the hull shape does not matter much, save enough bow volume to avoid a total wipeout and reducing drag when you're in displacement mode. Difference is the F20c doesn't come stock with board trunks that handle full flying.


Scorpion F18