Candela Seven; hydrofoil based, electric runabout...

Nice, I want one for my magic carpet ride to Bimini and back.

Pretty amazing. It a going to take a while for that the technology to become affordable but very promising. Foils have so much to offer and are starting to appear everywhere.

Excellent! There must be quite a brain in there to keep her stable.

I don’t think the brain is the issue. look at how A cheap consumer drone can stay level or at how so many games uses a phone or tablet accelerometer as control.

the system used to move the foils on the other hand must be complex ...

Exactly. I didn’t mean the human brain, but the computer that’s “flying” the boat.

Hydrofoils was the big thing when I grew up in Norway a few years ago, like in the 60s..
Love to see them roar in and out of the fjords.
Later the ferry services switched to big power catamarans cruising @ high speedS in rough water like the hydro

I remember my first time on a hydrofoil ferry in Australia.

Any more details and you have to kill us..?

I crossed the English Channel on a hovercraft. Twice.

How was it? Noisy..?
I built a model hovercraft way back as a 13 year old, great excitement until I discovered girls, beer and mopeds the following year.

It was the Hoverspeed ferry. I recall the noise being like a commercial airliner. The interior was as well. It didn’t feel like a boat, and riding up and down the ramps was amazing. On one trip the seas were quite snotty and the motion was very uncomfortable. They went through a lot of barf bags, and I was pretty close to putting my breakfast in one as well.