This year’s SailGP season will include an Impact League with its own leaderboard, aimed at showcasing sustainability. “It’s the best way to give our guests, VIPs and media an experience that is the closest to what our sailors live on board an F50: sailing at 30 knots on a boat that flies on the water,” he said. “The computers regulate the C-7’s main hydrofoil 100 times per second, much faster than any human could react,” Candela notes.”The result is an artificially stable and smooth ride, not quite the adrenaline rush of the F50’s, but also absent from the spectacular crashes Sail GP is notorious for.”īruno Dubois, Team Manager of France SailGP Team, echoed the sentiment. The hydrofoils also give the C-7 longer range than any other conventional electric craft, allowing Candela C-7 to cruise for close to 2 hours at 30 mph, more than enough to cover the racecourse,” Candela explains.Ĭandela’s engineering is based around a computer management system the company compares to fighter jet flight controls. “Just like the F50’s, the Candela is built from 100% carbon fiber and uses hydrofoils to lift the hull above the water’s friction to attain high speeds. The 8 catamarans featured in the San Francisco race are sleek 50-foot monsters that can reach speeds of up to 60 miles per hour. While the chase boats aren’t expected to keep up nearly the same pace as the racers, they do need some performance chops. The idea is to give media and visitors a closer look at the action.
CleanTechnica has been tracking the goings-on over at the Swedish electric boat firm Candela for the past couple of years, and the company is very pumped about qualifying its Candela C-7 hydrofoil to follow the race out in the water as part of France’s SailGP team. A Flying Electric Boat To Chase Wind-Powered Boats To help refugees from that conflict and others, donate to Doctors without Borders or other reliable aid organizations. Millions are fleeing and in need of assistance. That must be some special boat to keep up with those SailGP thoroughbreds, right?Īt this writing, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems intent on murdering as many people in Ukraine as he can. The race is normally limited to sail power only, but for the first time it featured an electric boat, pulling duty as a chase craft. Fans of electric boats and wind-powered boats got an eyeful of both this weekend, as the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix SailGP race unspooled around San Francisco Bay on March 26 and 27.
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