Professional BoatBuilder - April-May 2018

34 Professional BoatBuilder

HIGH SPEED: Foiling, Part 1

hardware and software is de facto the

boat’s brain that handles all the foiling

controls, so the driver has to worry

the water, which is used to adjust the

aft foil’s flying height.

Larsen’s complex combination of

sits at the other end of the boat, at the

bottom of the aft foil’s center strut. It

tells the computer the speed through

Above—The original Volvo Penta 280 power plant handles Talaria’s propulsion

and operates the hydraulics. The three Rexroth servo valves (gray

cables) and the two valves for retracting the bow and stern foils sit on the

hydraulic manifold. Right—The original bow strut and the old fiberglass foil,

shown here, were later replaced with a carbon fiber version.

DIETER LOIBNER

DENISE LARSEN

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