[quote=DanBerger]I hate to get picky about terminology, but there are two foiling boats out there, the Windrider Rave and the Hobie Trifoiler. I think you are talking about the Windrider Rave..
I have owned and sailed one and they are a blast down wind. I think you needed 8-10 knots to get the thing foiling and you had to have all three sails dialed in. It wasn't much fun upwind but the screecher helped. It was a pretty cool boat, but just too much work putting it together and then moving it around. I kept mine on a floating dock and it took up most of the dock.
The problem with the Raves is that they are plastic roto-molded boats. I just looked at one and it had a crack on the transom all the way around the bottom edge and up about 8 inches on either side. It might have been caused by water freezing in the hull or from stress. Regardless, the next time someone tried to fly the boat, it would have ripped the transom off. I walked away from that boat. There was one recently on eBay with the same exact problem.
I have some F18HT hulls and access to a single Stiletto 23 hull that could make a pretty cool tri. I was thinking I could take the workings off the Rave and build a pretty cool boat. The Stiletto hull is made of some extremely lightweight material and is stupid light. That and the HT hulls would be lighter than the Rave![/quote]
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