Welcome to Cliff's Trifoiler Home Page

New Stuff!

Hobie self-bailer! 193k picture here

Trifoiler Videos!!!

Nephew says "Hey, my feet almost reach the pedals, lemme take it out!"

trifoiler #27 at speed, from the front

trifoiler #27, side view

Interesting Stuff

Click here to see hull #41 in action!

click here to read the Multihull World article about Baranski Hydrofoils

Join the Trifoiler email list!!!

it's true! sign up for the unofficial Trifoiler email list! send email to majordomo@tango.rahul.net with body of (no quotes) "subscribe trifoilers"

Sections

• Pictures
• click here to see all the archived pictures!!!
Click here to see 19 pictures from Tom Nugent's model trifoiler project!!!

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• Stories
• Randy Devol's "Blade Runnings"
• Cliff gets a trophy at the 1998 Chico CATS Multihull Classic Regatta!!!

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• Advice
• How to get up on foils in light airs
• How to pretzle your rig when disassembling the boat
• How to get a speeding ticket!!

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• Technical Information
• The SF Bay Multihulls PHRF Certificate (rating -240!!!)
• (Greg K. said I could put the following items here without worrying about copyright)
• The Patent!! Yes, many aspects of the Trifoiler are patented. US Patent number 5,168,824. Read the 10 pages of the patent application yourself. (reference @uspto.gov) (the text)
• The Owner's Manual
• Technical Drawings
• Parts List
• an extended conversation between Randy Devol and Dan Ketterman regarding sensor-rising, best sailing practices, boat speed, whole-lotta-stuff

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• Bibliography
• The Early Brochure (Trifoiler Inc.) page 1 (187k!); page 2 (144k); Finish Line order form! (118k)
• The Current Brochure (Hobie!) (this is pretty much like the Hobie web page, see below for that) - page 1 (46k); page 2 (92k)
• Sailing Magazine, October 1996, p.?
• Popular Mechanics, June 1996
• Cruising World, May 1996
• World's Fastest Sailboat, Popular Science Cover Story, January 1991
• Multihulls magazine, May/June 1990, pp. 63..65, by Greg Ketterman
• Sailing World 1996 Performance Multihull Boat Of The Year!!! (hey, check out the BOTY previews too!)
• BoatShow on the Internet, Hobie TriFoiler

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• Dealers
• Hobie online order form for assembly manuals, videos
• Backyard Boats, Anapolis, MD - hey, they advertised on the web so I found 'em!
• Mariner Sails, Inc. - same as above! Check out their pix of trifoilers on the Texas 'hard.
• Captain Kirk's - travel, windsurfing, and Trifoilers. Captain Kirk's Naturally Powered Sports 525 N. Harbor Bl. Cabrillo Beach, Ca 90731 (310) 833-3397 Fax: 3781 E-Mail: CKirks@aol.com

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• Charters
• The Finish Line, Mr. Eric Arens, 368 NE Alice Ave., Stuart, FL 34994 tel: 407/692-4048; fax: 407/692-9987, South Florida, F-24, F-27, Formula 27, F-31, Corsair 3600 & Trifoiler (by Ketterman)

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• Great Trifoiler Trailer License Plates!!!
• Curses! (15kb) (from "Curses, Foiled Again!" - Cliff Sojourner's boat #117)
• 3Foiler (14kb) (Randy Devol's boat, Blade Runner, #42)

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• Web Links
• International Hydrofoil Society - All Hydrofoils, All the Time!
• Hobie Cat Trifoiler web site (alternate - hobiecat.com)
• (et maintenant, le site Francais:) Le TriFoiler Longshot (LE RECORD DU MONDE DE VITESSE A LA VOILE
• Boatshow on the Internet's Trifoiler site
• Cedric Savineau's Speed Sailing site; the Longshot section
• SNAME Trifoiler Paper Experimental and Analytical Investigation of a Cavitating Hydrofoil: The TriFoiler as a Case Study. C. Savineau, J. Paschkewitz. Presented at the New England Section SNAME Meeting, MIT. February 3 1994.
• Experimental and Analytical Investigation of a Cavitating Hydrofoil: The TriFoiler as a Case Study.
• Marine HydroDynamics Laboratory at MIT
• The Case for Transport Sailcraft (trifoiler mention near figure 5, and table 1)
• Hobie Cat introduces the TriFoiler
• Randy Reynolds, the Multi-Sail dude
• Yellow Pages Endeavor - a great picture!
• GURPS (what the hell is this!?!?!?) vehicle review
• AYRS Chapter 7
• The Rave - hydrofoil trimaran
• On The Wire - Hobie E-zine
• Catamaran Sailor webpages (Netherlands)

Send me your articles, pictures, drawings, designs, mathematical analyses, experiences, hopes, dreams, etc.!

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Inspiration

my inspiration for putting this web site together was seeing how well done the 49er site and the Catalina 25 site were done. Way to go dudes!