(0749) Morning again, all.
14. How fads change
In Russia, I had a boatbuilder lined up to build a hydrofoil to use on the Volga but red tape and other internal matters wrecked the idea … most reasonable cost too it had been, sponsored.
Decades later now, I’d dodged a bullet methinks. The premise had been fine … they do work … but highly temperamental speed machines and I was getting no younger. In 2025, there is now this:
The way it changed over the years, sailing hydrofoils, was that initially on small craft like the 11 foot Moth (I owned one), they were supported in three places beneath the hull by foils but when “the money” came in big time and the America’s Cup went foil … they were initially two hull, even three … the most famous at that time being Hydroptere – its stbd wing collapsed near the outer foil.
Someone came up with the idea … why go multihull at all? Thus a new generation of canting foiled monohulls came in, acting as a sort of Bruce foil machine (technically quite workable, yet capricious).
Also, space age materials were taking over, e.g. carbon fibre making way for polyimides and that’s the point where my own aging and new synthetics parted ways … these materials now having taken it again back into the realm of a wealthy person’s sport.
13. Here come dat EU army
Fighting age hordes up and down country finally to be activated:
12. Nick Timothy MP
How is this allowed? Ed Miliband has approved another giant solar and battery farm. 49% of the site is top-graded agricultural land. The applicant? Ecotricity, owned by … Labour donor Dale Vince. They’ve given £5.4 million to Labour since 2022.
11. A genuine notice just now from the dept.
10. DAD drops at 949
Immigration vs Political Correctness: French Interior Minister Picks Up the Gauntlet – France has introduced stricter rules aimed at curbing the influx of illegals (finally) – March for Life Education and Defense Fund is honored to announce that Vice President J.D. Vance will make his first public appearance (in DC) – Kennedy clan at war over release of long-secret JFK files …… more at 949.