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Our 13 foot hydrofoil, "H-1".	The starboard stern foil.	Stainless steel bow foil.





H-1 on foil at 22 knots. Dad should have made the foil struts longer to get the hull higher off the water.	Slowing down -- Coming off foil mode, into displacement mode (landing).	Displacement mode (i.e. fuel wasting mode). It's ridiculous, pushing aside water just to move forward.


How H-1 looked last year, when we started.	Every inch had to be fixed.	Painted!


Constructing the helm.	Wiring the instrument panel.	The finished 'interior'.


Had to go through a few of these before we got it to work.	That's us directing operations from the bow. Will be making H-1 amphibious. Foil testing will continue afterwards.	Last pic of H-1 without retractable wheels. Dad, skimming the waves at 25 knots with just 30 HP.