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Fulcrum Speed Works UFO Foil

$14,500.00 | $13,999.00, manufacturer:, hull colour:.

The UFO is a simplistic modern hydrofoiling boat, that allows anyone to fly through the air, freeing the hull from draggy water. More stable than the International Moth or even a child’s pram, with a simple rig, and a set of fully retractable hydrofoils. Built in the United States and the UFO maintains a one-design philosophy, creating close and exciting racing on foils!

• Unique patented hull and rig designs
• Stable on and above the water
• Small footprint for carefree storage and shipping
• Takeoff from about 8knts of wind
• Fast, fun, easy to control foiling
• Compatible and rewarding to all skill levels
• Lightweight for easy maneuverability
• Solid, nearly dent-proof, hull

This UFO is going to be a lot of fun to sail and it will take some time to get used to sailing a foil but it will be a great boat. The boat comes with a white hull with different colour options for the padding on the deck, it comes with a white trimmed mylar mainsail.

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Best Dinghy: UFO Foiler

• By Dave Reed
• Updated: December 19, 2017

As a unique foiling object, indeed the UFO’s most appealing aspect is the ability to sail it in conditions that have other foilers on the beach. Sailors new to foiling will be quickly rewarded with minimal effort.

Dave Clark is the UFO’s co-creator, builder, tweaker and apostle. When he explains the construction of his 10-foot catamaran contraption (“we use this apocalyptically thick triaxial fiberglass layup”) and its handling (“as you ask the boat to challenge you, it will continue to challenge you, but only when it’s asked”), his enthusiasm is as animated as the UFO’s behavior on the water, especially in flight. The UFO is otherworldly, the judges agree, with the potential to disrupt the dinghy-sailing scene as an all-access low-cost foiler.

Nowadays at Clark’s Fulcrum Speedworks factory in Bristol, Rhode Island, he’s cranking out these pint-size craft, shipping batches in cardboard boxes and containers with international shipping manifests. He’s taking orders over the phone, on credit cards, from impulse buyers dropping $7,600 for an “all-inclusive” sailing experience.

How’s the UFO built? It’s vacuum-infused, with carbon-reinforced vinylester for an all-up weight of 110 pounds. The wishbone spar assembly is a mix of carbon and fiberglass components; the foil struts are extruded aluminum; and the elevators are a mix of carbon, glass, foam core and stainless-steel parts.

“Complexity is the enemy,” says Clark, who developed the UFO with his father, Steve Clark. “I need it to be robust, and I can’t have parts go missing.”

That might be true of the UFO’s big pieces, says Allen, but there are still quite a few little pins and parts required for assembly and flight. “You’ll have to take good care of it, especially if you’re in and out of the water, and moving it around all the time.”

The carbon windsurfing mast tube that Clark uses is bendy, so he added a jumper strut system to stiffen it. The wishbone arrangement is then the most effective way to provide high leech tension and power in the sail, which is essential to the entire rig package.

The judges’ testing session in sub-8-knot conditions doesn’t allow flight for Tom Rich nor Greg Stewart, both of whom exceed 200 pounds. But Clark, at 170 pounds and with two years in the boat, has it foiling in a heartbeat, using an explosive kinetic technique he’s perfected to get liftoff. Allen is initially unable to get it foil-borne, but 2 knots more of windspeed and a little extra effort on the mainsheet is all it takes to get him flying.

The UFO’s tunnel hull is a simple and defining platform that allows it to be sailed home when the breeze gets to be too little or too much. Its T-Foils lift nearly flush with the bottom of the boat, for launching it from a shoreline or a dock. The ride-height wand is easily adjustable to the desired challenge of the day. “Low to start and learn,” says Clark. “Higher as you get better and faster.”

At the end of your UFO session, break it down and leave it on a dolly, or stuff the whole lot into your family wagon.

“That’s what makes this boat so cool,” says Allen. “It’s innovative, creative and inexpensive. I can see a lot people getting their first taste of foiling with this thing.”

Or as Clark pontificates, “You can use it across your entire sailing career — from your Opti until you’re old and dead.”

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To watch video of the UFO in action, click here . To read more about the genesis of the UFO, click here .

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North America’s Largest and Most Advanced Dinghy Factory

Fulcrum Speedworks is a medium sized elite marine manufacturing company located in Rumford, Rhode island. It exists solely to build UFOs and Rockets; bringing foiling and sailing to the masses.

While Fulcrum is a young company its roots are old. The boats were designed and developed by Steve Clark, President of Vanguard Sailboats 1987-2007, and his son Dave Clark, the president of Fulcrum Speedworks. Fulcrum is wholly owned and directed by Dave. Since it’s inception, Fulcrum has built a production team around industry veterans with multi-decade careers in the high-performance boatbuilding industry. Experience is an invaluable asset at every level of the boatbuilding profession. Fulcrum manufactures UFOs and Rockets in their entirety at their 17,000 square foot factory at 310 Bourne Avenue, Building 69, Rumford, RI. Stop by to see UFOs and Rockets being made.

THE CULTURE

Fulcrum is a future-focused company with a  fanatical orientation towards continuous improvement. Getting slightly better at what we do every day is what gets our whole team going. Our job is to improve the process of how we make things  by  making things. Just take a look at our late 2017  walkthrough video and compare it to the 2019 walkthrough video to see the rate we improve year on year.

WHAT'S IT ALL FOR?

Safety, Quality, Price- in that order. Those are the three priorities of continuous improvement. We improve in order to 1. Make the job better for those who do the job. 2. Free up time and resources to assure more consistent and superior product quality with every step forward. 3. Control costs in the building process in order to deliver the maximum amount of value to our customers. If we were not focusing on a process of continuous improvement in order to excel in these ways we would be inevitably letting down the customer and ourselves.

And then there are giant steps like our silicone bag system, a major improvement we built in the year 2019. The system described in the below video drastically decreased the environmental footprint of the UFO build process, making it one of the greenest sailboats on earth. That matters.

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UFO sailboat, foiling dinghy, for sale. Used only a couple of times in sailing clinics offered by the designer and builder. Fantastic and easy to learn and sail for first time foilers. Family commitments and an active racing schedule on other boats has me regretfully reducing the size of my personal fleet. New boats sell for @8k and a steal even at that price. Price to sell at 6,500 is firm. It cannot be overstated how awesome these boats are. More info on the boat here: https://fulcrumspeedworks.com/UFO/overview/ Boat of the year award here: https://www.sailingworld.com/best-dinghy-ufo-foiler/ Includes like new sail by North Sails, dolly, roof rack tie down straps. Car toppable with wide enough load bars. Happy to help with delivery if I can.

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Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Asym. Spinnaker Area: 70m2/753 sq.ft. Removable ‘wings’ for trailering width of 2.5m/8.16’. MAIN SAIL AREA : 29.5m2/317 sq.ft. JIB SAIL AREA : 20.5m2/221 sq.ft. GENNAKER SAIL AREA : 70.0m2/753 sq.ft.

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