1950's sailing hydrofoil Monitor

Monitor

Baker MFG. Co.

One of the earlier succesfull sailing hydrofoils was Monitor built bij Baker mfg. co.
Imagine in the 1950's what exhiliration this must have given.
Some very interesting webpages on Monitor are found on the website wind-water.nl

The ladder type hydrofoil has inherent stability as the lift decrease with ride height. But they had e cleverly designed mechanical computer which used input forces from the stay's to control the angle of the rear foils.
Sailing speeds in excess of 30 knots were reached which is amazing for the fifties, as it took other craft more than 30 years to once more reach those speeds.

When you are still interested have a browse arond the Monitor pages of wind-water.nl

The wingmasted version is a rendering of the originally intended  boat, for which they had too little funds! That would have been a true revolution!
The times when we stil believed anything was possible.