Windrider Rave technical specifications 

 

Length overall 5,20 m
Length waterline 4,90 m
Width overall (including foils) 5,18 m
Weight 180 kg
Sail area (mainsail and jib) 18,1 m2
Draft (foils up /  foils down) 0,30 m / 1,30 m
Max weight capacity 180 kg
Constructionmaterial hulls polyethylene
Constructionmaterial foils special alloy aluminium
Hardware Harken
Boat speed up to 1.75 times windspeed (when flying)
Designer

Dr. Sam Bradfield (USA)


 

Weight of crew (kg) Takeoff speed flying (knots) Beaufort
27 - 50 kg 7 - 9 3
50 -100 kg 9 - 11 3 / 4
100 - 135 kg 11 - 12 4
135 - 180 kg 12 - 13 4

 

Order the 6 minutes long demo video from the Rave on CD-Rom (free), VHS or high quality DVD on the orderpage. Or watch a small part of it right here:

the Rave movie online.

Small movies of the Windrider Rave in action:

video WRRave_1
video WRRave_2
video WRRave_3

You can either play the movies directly in your browser
or when having problems, download them to your computer by 'save target as'

 

Published articles on the Windrider Rave:

'Segeln',   07-2002,  German, 1,49 Mb
'Waterkampioen', 12-2000, Dutch, 1,67 Mb
'Zeilen', 01-2000, Dutch, 0,86 Mb

 

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