New brand: Hydrocraft Systems

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WindyBear
WindyBear
66 posts
66 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
32 posts
32 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
157 posts
157 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
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QLD, 1602 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
665 posts
665 posts
13 Sep 2025 8:00pm
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
1130 posts
1130 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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