Mahalo foil & vortex lovers
following bionic and physics rules to achieve totally new concept of hydrofoils!
Well known as round wing, closed wing, circular wing, ellipse wing, etc
(ask uncle google or search true academic circles!)

On drLojz lab table for years, time to show the new stage of R&D.
First touch on water, looks promising as we respect over know-how
with no surprise. Everything work as simulations shows!

With good mix of bionic design and understanding of principal physics,
connected with additive prototyping and help of carbon fibers
the new Owing2019 is here!

Owing will be with dr Lojz on the coming
TFW foiling week on Garda lake!
https://www.facebook.com/foilingweek
See you there with any needs, questions or suggestions.

Contact me on to meet there,
or drop a meesage to drlojz2(at)gmail.com

Key word, the future is bright without vortex :-)

stay tuned

TFW foiling week 2017

Mahalo,

"Be there or not to be",
Meet Don Montagure my old friend, priceless!
Jetfoiler works well, presentation was cool, almost in
the dark! To be part of the Jetfoiler team, kudos!
Two days only with full soul and foils!

 

More photos in the G+ gallery

https://goo.gl/photos/PySxyKfvuKc5siy78

 

 See you next year at TFW Garda 2018

touch and go

drLojz

 

Foiling Awards 2016

Mahalo,
For this year, the first time The foiling week was open for the foiling Awards 2016
http://one.foilingweek.com/awards2016.php

The "O"wing foil concept is on the list!

https://www.facebook.com/foilingweek

Official page
http://www.foilingweek.com/pages/foiling-awards/foiling-week-awards-2016-candidates/o-wing-concept-kite-hydrofoil/

Vote for “O” wing

Lets support with the voice the future idea what windsurf, Moth or Kite foil will be!

So happy this come true!

More about "O"wing foil  
http://drlojz.blogspot.si/2015_11_01_archive.html

Thanks for your support

touch and go
dr.

Summary of the hydrofoils R&D

Hydrofoils R&D 2015 update
after successful TFW and some good sessions on the lake, plus a lot of time
on the comp and in workshop, here the summary of the work!

Y foil
As already posted the Y Moth sail ruder hydrofoil!
Status, vertical mold ALU done, foil on testing!

AHfoils

The Classic kite hydrofoil done for the AHcustoms.ch
The hydrofoil with great potential for super low take of and great gliding suport
true the jibes and free riding. The set up and construction allow the modifications to
the race setup too!

From the shadow

Precision of the CNC molds

 

 General look

 

"O"wing

And not the last one, as was predicted here the "O"wing concept kite hydrofoil.
Out there in the aeronautic circles they are different names of this kind of wing set up!
From the box wing, circle wing, elliptical wing, closed wing, joined wing all of them are use the same
idea to drop down as much as possible wingtip vortex!
The working name Owing was chosen as the shape run continues all around!

With three new hydrofoils in this period I am happy to complete the work.
T "Y" and the Owing are booth into the testing period, more of the conclusions later on!

Stay tuned
dr.Lojz

Wing flutter & Hydrofoils flutter

Mahalo,
I was just watching the the US nationals regatta in Moth class and in this video
https://vimeo.com/136467586
at the 04:30 + the whole foil set up come in the flutter
OR
maybe I am wrong and this is just the sampling of the video
(hope yes) otherwise I can only imagine the sound and the vibration :-(

We all know how hard are the Moth foils build, almost unbreakable and
to see the flutter like this O la la! I hope everything was gong well there!

I know flutter is not common on Mach2 boats, here I can not judge if this foils are "home build"
but it is interesting to see!

My answer to this problem are Y foils!

dr.Lojz

The foiling week Garda 2015

Mahalo,
right back from Garda lake, complete some photos and
you can find the gallery here
https://plus.google.com/photos/111689916731696792459/albums/6169455467865315169

or here TFW 2015

As the last year TFW is the best meet of the foiling boats from all around the world.
Good organization from Domenico, Luka and the rest of TFW team. For any R&D,
design or manufacturing people, it is priceless to be there. All the right power people are
coming together, have discussions, the forum run and it is much more to see on the water!
So do not miss this event in the future!

Amac was presented the new Waszp, the people foiler, so this is now official ;-)
Good work done Andrew!

The ahcustoms.ch kite hydrofoil was there, well accepted from foil community!

Well for this year we have with us the Old-timer as well. 10years of foiling or living museum
as we have jokes in foil community! The axeman7 moth sill on foils, well we broke the push road
on the main foil, so we was on the water only for two days. Oldy survive and crew also and
this is important!

White bear cat, Luc is assisting and help to crew!

Three type of today foiling boats,
Moth, Laser and FF, the kite foil is missing!

The SLO 4201 Luka Tomori doing well for the firt time on the event!

 Next year generation of foilers ;-)

Ota preparing the boat for the lake trials!

In all, Garda lake, TFW we are coming back for next year,
not for holidays, with new stuff, new ideas, new products!

dr.Lojz

The internet galaxy & hydrofoils

Mahalo readers,
Not I am lazy, but simply no time on the running projects to be really accurate here and write
daily/weekly the news on the blog! Some of people are simply better on CAD and in workshops
at R&D, some of them are writers and good on social media pages.

Lets make some update on kitefoils under R&D.
It is true the post on Kite forum push me to write here again
http://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=879622#p879622

Where the community found from Christmas card the Owing kite foil. Really happy to see some
of the people have really sharp eye on new products.

For me not new foil, the Owing was presented at TFW on Garda lake last summer
http://drlojz.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-foiling-week-garda-lake-2014.html
Where all the big minds of foiling world come together, to present and interchange the work, ideas etc.

At the moment the molds for "classic hydrofoil" are ready in production, I will post here the finished product!
The kitefoil is developed  for the www.ahcustoms.ch from Swiss!

 Main Crossover AH-foil wing mold

 Body mold finished

 Vertical half of the mold

 The negative V tail

Here some early comp graphic from last year! The Owing is under development and before summer is in plane to hit the water ;-)

Lets move the product to be simply as possible!

touch and go
dr.Lojz

The Foiling Week Garda lake 2014

Mahalo,
just come back from Garda lake, where we was with Ota visit the TFW 2014.
More about here http://www.foilingweek.com.

It was great event and all respect to Italian team of enthusiasts to bring the TFW to alive.
To be there was some how the privilege with respect to the world power people
on foils, with foils, for foils! We have chance to listen the conference and free talk to great minds
of hydrofoiling as James Grogono, Andrew McDougall, Martin Fischer, Thomas Jundt,
Tom Speer, Edoardo Bianchi, Phil Stevenson.
 

The short picture report can be find
https://plus.google.com/photos/111689916731696792459/albums/6035082551691076273
 

We saw different designs, different boats, some of them was possible to test
and what is more important  is we share ideas,
the visions of the coming 3rd dimension on the water.

TFW, we are coming again, hope for next year, not only with the camera, with the boat,
foils, wings, lets go for it!

touch and go
dr.Lojz