his week Fergie and I took the F20c out for some fun in the last few warm days left for the season here in Holland. We had been experimenting with some full foiling tricks whilst shooting the promo video for the boat in Hyeres the week prior. Without the video crew around we took the chance to have a bit of fun with the boat. We mounted a Go Pro on the end of the spi pole and went for a blast, with around 12kts breeze it was perfect conditions to see what we could do. Clearly we are not going for speed in most of the shots, instead we wanted to get the boat lifting on the foils and see what happens when you run too much foil, and stand too far aft... The result is a lot of fun once you get used to it and we came back in with big smiles and some cool video!


F20 Freestyle

Nice vid!
Is it an optical illusion because of the water or do the lee-boards bend inward quite a bit when loaded?

maybe a bit of bending...

The boards are a lot stiffer than an F18 board, so imagine how much they are bending before you break an F18 board!!

AWESOME vid macca.

Love the toon too.

I was going to ask the same thing.

Looks like you guys were having alot of fun, and I'd like to try one someday.

Tad, you need to get on that for me....

Might be the parallax makeing it look worse than it is; remember the boards are already curved a fair way under and as soon as the boat heels they move upwards quite quickly!

its not bad to have the boards bending, its simply a factor of the loads involved.

I have seen images of Moth foils bending dramatically, and they have a total weight including human of less than 100kg, the F20c has a sailing weight of more than 300kg so you can imagine the comparative loads on the foils!

How much is it to replace a board again??

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I think we are too scared to know.

It's comparable to an F18 board in price/size ratio

why dont u guys put the F20c up for the commonwealth games?

Good answer! LOL.

WOW!
FUN!!!! looks like your trying to leap out of the water. wonder if you can downwind with the spin

Watch the clip again. At times they do have the kite up!

Suppose the question has to be asked. How long before we see T-foil rudders.

Ahhh, i see it now. i was so fixated on the boards/hulls that i didn't even notice it. awesome

also great music and editing

I get this when I try to watch with a german ip:

"This video contains content from UMG. It is not available in your country."

So I try with a proxy server that leads to the result "Nacra F20 Carbon Freestyle" by nacra300 but the video window remains black and I've no loading activity.

Any hints how a german user can see that? Hm... or can you Macca publish another version without that copyright powdersnow rock *g*? Thanks!

What about watching it from here?

It is not available again... Thank you Karl but it's the same UMG story. What's the idea behind that? Why can you watch it and Germany not?

The commencement of the fourth reich?