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New brand: Hydrocraft Systems

Created by WindyBear WindyBear  5 months ago, 12 Sep 2025
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WindyBear
WindyBear

53 posts

12 Sep 2025 9:25pm
Not much available so far but looks like a boutique, Hood River brand. Nice fuse / mast / front wing connection.

www.hydrocraftsystems.com/pages/foils
BBQdSunfish
BBQdSunfish

22 posts

13 Sep 2025 2:26am
I think Brodie was the Cabrinha foil designer for the H series - that was a really nice, smooth foil. If he is bringing that background and knowledge over to Hydrocraft, these should be interesting-
flowstate
flowstate

87 posts

13 Sep 2025 7:23am
and Sean Ordonez, been at cutting edge of Maui big wave and windsport design for decades, incl the Flying Cat downwind boards. Quite the team
airsail
airsail

QLD

1570 posts

13 Sep 2025 10:18am
Looking at the mast fuselage joint, what worries me is wear, and how it is taken up. Armstrong had this problem in early days and added a heap more screws to try and prevent movement of the front wing due to wear. I do wonder how Hydrocraft will overcome it with no screw tension actually tightening the joint.
MProject04
MProject04

643 posts

13 Sep 2025 8:00pm
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airsail said..
Looking at the mast fuselage joint, what worries me is wear, and how it is taken up. Armstrong had this problem in early days and added a heap more screws to try and prevent movement of the front wing due to wear. I do wonder how Hydrocraft will overcome it with no screw tension actually tightening the joint.




Cabrinha had the same with the H series foil. When be came out they added a side screw. Now that (same designer) evolves to 3 screws and a clamp.

You would think that by now, after 5 years or so, fuse to mast designs would be settling down and converge
Jeroensurf
Jeroensurf

1097 posts

14 Sep 2025 1:43am
It looks like it is just securing, but no really force on it besides locking.
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