Top speeds of nearly 30 knots on a machine less than 5 meters long, transportable behind a car with no dismantling whatsoever…the stuff dreams are made of, no? Getting to know a terrific little toy, which…flies!
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16/05/2017
Par
Emmanuel van Deth
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Flying multihulls are not new; Eric Tabarly succeeded with no trouble in 1976, with his Tornado hull attired with two floats. Then there was Paul Ricard, the Hydroptère…and soon kite boards, then stand-up paddle boards with foils. And of course multihulls and now practically everything which races on the water. So, is that it? Foils are within everyone’s reach? Can we have a go too? On the market, in any case, there is a lot of movement in the little world of flying catamarans. And among them, one machine in particular caught our attention. This is the iFly 15. Unveiled at the fall boat shows,…