--- product_id: 3907672 title: "Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly" price: "₱4273" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/3907672-hydrofoils-design-build-fly store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly **Price:** ₱4273 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly - **How much does it cost?** ₱4273 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/3907672-hydrofoils-design-build-fly) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This is a book on how to design, build, and fly hydrofoil boats. It begins with the history and theory of hydrofoils, and continues with an explanation of flight characteristics, such as; stability, control, lift, drag, cavitation, and ventilation. Foil configurations, weight and balance, flying height, and roll management are covered as well as calculations of stress, hull configuration, and wing sizing. One section demonstrates methods for comparing designs, and explores specific design ideas for motorized, human powered, and sail powered hydrofoils. Piloting and trouble shooting are followed by a bibliography and index. This very complete book includes over 270 illustrations, charts and tables on the subject of creating hydrofoil boats. Because hydrofoils fly like airplanes, except in a denser fluid, the book's subject could be described as aerodynamics adapted to hydrofoils. It is the best book available for hydrofoil enthusiasts. There is no other book like it. Review: Refreshing and comprehensive resource for hydrofoil design - Right from the preface your book touched a chord with me. I may have a technical background, but nothing satifies more than the practical challenge of building knowledge based on "doing". Here is a book that covers in detail all the ideas and data realted to my pet subject! Fortunately, in sailing you cannot predict all variables and and this goes even more for hydrofoil sailing which adds a further dimension. Having built and tested many configurations of sailing hydrofoil over the years I can attest to the accuracy and it is refreshing to have an accurate description of what is happening. Refreshing explanations of all those things you thought you understood but were not quite sure. I have gleaned heaps of hydrofoil stuff, borrowed Grogono's book, Marchaj, [...], Tom Speer etc, but have never come across a condensed, comprehensive resource like this before... if only it were around 15 years ago when I first started mucking around with foils!! Simple tables, a ready reckoner, just what I missed in discussions with the theorists. Data consolidated, I even found some graphs I had invented for myself, which I now find were aparently already developed by others... I am really impressed that magnificent design ideas such as Dynafoil and Moth get proper coverage. In Hyfibe I can see the embodiment of many best principles, it is now a real challenge to apply these to a sailing craft!. This book is comprehensive and well presented and finally confirms so much of what I had gleaned over the years but had no speaking partner to check with. It also provides all the elements which I can readily develop into new designs. A fantastic resource of really neat ideas well worth testing. Totally recommended to anyone contemplating designing, building and flying with hydrofoils! Dr. Ian Ward Review: Informative Instruction - A good and instructive book for the amateur and fortunately not too technical,for many others of this ilk tend to be written by boffins This book was very useful to me before giving the go ahead to let my own boffins loose on designing a new wingsail hydrofoil leisure crafty. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,139,633 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #72 in Aerodynamics (Books) #208 in Industrial Design (Books) #642 in Boating (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 167 Reviews | ## Images ![Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ZmbZNghuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Refreshing and comprehensive resource for hydrofoil design *by I***D on November 5, 2009* Right from the preface your book touched a chord with me. I may have a technical background, but nothing satifies more than the practical challenge of building knowledge based on "doing". Here is a book that covers in detail all the ideas and data realted to my pet subject! Fortunately, in sailing you cannot predict all variables and and this goes even more for hydrofoil sailing which adds a further dimension. Having built and tested many configurations of sailing hydrofoil over the years I can attest to the accuracy and it is refreshing to have an accurate description of what is happening. Refreshing explanations of all those things you thought you understood but were not quite sure. I have gleaned heaps of hydrofoil stuff, borrowed Grogono's book, Marchaj, [...], Tom Speer etc, but have never come across a condensed, comprehensive resource like this before... if only it were around 15 years ago when I first started mucking around with foils!! Simple tables, a ready reckoner, just what I missed in discussions with the theorists. Data consolidated, I even found some graphs I had invented for myself, which I now find were aparently already developed by others... I am really impressed that magnificent design ideas such as Dynafoil and Moth get proper coverage. In Hyfibe I can see the embodiment of many best principles, it is now a real challenge to apply these to a sailing craft!. This book is comprehensive and well presented and finally confirms so much of what I had gleaned over the years but had no speaking partner to check with. It also provides all the elements which I can readily develop into new designs. A fantastic resource of really neat ideas well worth testing. Totally recommended to anyone contemplating designing, building and flying with hydrofoils! Dr. Ian Ward ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Informative Instruction *by J***T on December 30, 2013* A good and instructive book for the amateur and fortunately not too technical,for many others of this ilk tend to be written by boffins This book was very useful to me before giving the go ahead to let my own boffins loose on designing a new wingsail hydrofoil leisure crafty. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome book, in depth but not hard to read *by E***3 on March 25, 2021* I've been tempted to convert a small catamaran to foils, and ran across a mention of this book in a video online. Its awesome! So far it's covered every design aspect that I was thinking about, and given me more that I hadn't even thought of, and I'm only half way through. 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