Tom, foilers are begging to be fiddled with. It's never good enough. Try this, try that. Higher, faster, sooner, more money, more vacation days from work! Handling the Rave is also a little problematic coming up to the beach. With the foils retracted there is nothing to steer the boat. You can retract the rudder with the joystick but reaching back with one arm to hold the heavy rudder foil down enough to have some steerage is a bit of a contortion. Doran Oster developed a crane system to raise the ama foils while still seated.

Yeah, Jake, it would be the TriFoiler idea of keeping the center hull as small and light as possible. Mary and I like to cruise but now we're willing to give up the roomy hull for a faster shape. (It only took one long day in Pensacola this past June for Mary to loosen the purse strings for the project. It's all my money, of course. I just don't have complete control of it!)

The 6.0 hull would be only a starting point. I'm 5'8" and 150 and my crew is 5'8" and 160 (thank God she doesn't read the forums!) and I would want room for both of us. The frame presents the biggest modification hurdle and I don't have the knowledge to do it alone. Fortunately, I can get some advice from the designers who live in Melbourne, about an hour from Orlando.

I can make a 3D model in Autocad of the frame and the donor hull, and I can ask for advice on where the frame can be modified, and what will be needing a revision here or there (he said, hopefully ignorant of the quagmire of choices yet to be made to what is already a perfectly good flyer).

What was that new company making a new catamaran in Titusville, or Canaveral, or somewhere on the coast near me? I would like to give them a call but I can't remember anything about them to do a search and I tossed the Catsailor issue that featured the new boat. Maybe one of their hulls won't be too big.