Seems like foiling is nothing new.

[Concerto]

Here is an Atlanta built in 1958 with foils.

 

[LadyInBed]

Who would have thought!

 

[LittleSister]

Here is an Atlanta built in 1958 with foils.

I suspect that boat was built 1958, but the foils were added much, much later! (Possibly by Photoshop?)

But foils, at least powered ones, go back way longer than that!

First British patent for a hydrofoil was 1869, and here's a powered one in action 1909.


Took a while to get to the point where they were usable for and applied to sailing vessels, though.

 

[bignick]

It’s missing the windward foil…
nice attempt with photoshop though.

 

[MisterBaxter]

My dad used to have a copy of the book 'The 40 knot sailboat', which covered the state of the art in fast sailing in the early sixties. There was a section on Monitor, at that time the fastest foiling boat ever built (I think). It didn't get close to 40 knots though... That took carbon fibre, exotic laminates and resins, computers and all the rest...

 

[Wansworth]

One could almost believe it those years after the war there was lots of manic innovation in yacht design

 

[johnalison]

I imagine the photo was taken in April.

 

[Wansworth]

I imagine the photo was taken in April.

In shirt sleeves……in theUK in April

 

[Concerto]

The photo was not photoshoped by me, but came from the Atalanta web site.
Fairey Marine Atalanta Owners Association Website – Atalanta Owners Together, away with the Faireys

 

[Sandy]

Had that been an Anderson 22 it would have been far more believable.

 

[mjcoon]

So who was foiled?

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Have a read of David Keiper’s book Hydrofoil Voyager where he cruised the Pacific in a foiling trimaran in the 1960s.