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[quote=marekli]Here's a few more clips OP could have posted (just search youtube):

S9 Overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRTZik0Vf8

Sailing Upwind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkMacK-SBBQ

3rd test 2014?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLluz3niUk

2nd test 5.01.2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wre5n32OOhs

Personally, I find it just a tad small...the Formula Whisper is a bit bigger. It's got a design where conventional crossbars disappear and are replaced by carbon ones molded into the hull making the whole frame a lot stiffer and therefore probably also a lot more efficient.  Price is quoted soomewhere at $30K so much higher than the price for an S9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxXm8Oub0A

Then there's the Flying Phantom, at $40K. Compared to it you could consider the S9 a steal if you just wanted to fly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxnCVI67O0

One way to get some exposure to foiling cats while the R&D is being sorted out and multiple production cycles and increasing foiling cats being manufactured lead to more competition is to join a clinic like one Helge Sach organized a few weeks ago at Lake Garda. Here's a pretty cool clip of him foiling with a sailor on a Nacra20 FCS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BWg5Azq1To<em>Edited by marekli on Oct 22, 2015 - 10:42 AM.</em> [/quote]

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