Candelaboat

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by Candelaboat 3y ago
Mikael at Candela, the hydrofoil maker, here. Our P-12 uses submerged hydrofoils and emplys a digital Flight controller, which stabilizes the craft by adjusting the angle of attack of the foils 100 times per second. So the pitching and heav
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by Candelaboat 3y ago
Mikael at Candela here. Norway is indeed a target market for us!
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by Candelaboat 3y ago
Mikael at Candela here. Our C-8 can foil in wave heights of around 1.2m, which are pretty big waves for a 27-foot leisure boat. The P-12 is designed for much bigger waves, and can foil in 2 meter high waves, meaning it will be able to cover
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by Candelaboat 3y ago
Hi there, Mikael at Candela here. Since the P-12 uses 80% less energy than a conventional vessel, the cost of operating it is far less than diesel vessels- overall around 50% percent lower including service, energy, salaries etc. This makes
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Feel free to ask me anything, I work at Candela!
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela here. The cost of replacing the foils vary, but considerably less than the lower unit of an outboard on 25 foot boats. I actually ran over a submerged chain and broke the foil once - the only time that has happened in Swed
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Update: it's done. Thanks!
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Hi, no problem, just wanted to clarify. The price is 250 00 euros, which indeed is expensive for a 25 foot boat, but still about 100 000 euros less expensive than conventional electric boats that can go fast - but not that far. The price st
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela here. It's supposed to be "wake", not "wave" - sorry for this. The wake behind the boat is only 5cm, so no wake damage here:) The boat handles waves nicely, we can fly in up to 1,2 meter high waves
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Good suggestion - thanks!
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela here. Because it's super hard to make the control system for an inherently unstable boat. It took five years of R&D to make it work in all manners of situations, banked turns etc. Conventional boat builders don&#x
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Waterskiing behind a Candela C-7 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMlAcSEI1I&t=10s
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela, the hydrofoil boat maker, here. Yes, that's a key difficulty that has to be solved by using sensors that detect flight height, and distance to the waves, among other things. If the foil leaves the water, you ventilat
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
There's a lot of vaporware out there, but this foiling ferry has been paid for by the City of Stockholm and will launch next year: https://candelaspeedboat.com/public-transport/
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Check out our foiling ferry P-30 that already is paid for by the city of Stockholm and will be launched Q4 2022: https://candelaspeedboat.com/public-transport/
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela, the C-7 maker, here. Hydrofoils have a number of benefits, among them are: less slamming (up to a certain sea state), less drag and better fuel economy, and smaller wake. Boeing 929 Jetfoiler from the 1970's onwards
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela, the maker of C-7 here. Yes: The hydrofoils reduce slamming by about 95% in waves that are up to 1,2 meters. If they're higher than that, you can always go slow. The boat has a 40 kWh battery pack in the keel, so it&#
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Mikael at Candela, the maker of C-7, here. This post is inaccurate and frankly makes no sense. First, the waves will never capsize the boat. Due to low cog, it's virtually impossible to do - we've tried. You can manoeuvre just fin
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by Candelaboat 5y ago
Hi, I work for Candela in Sweden. 5cm is not the wave height the boat can handle. 5 cm is the height of the wake the boat produces, so almost no wake. You can go foiling in 1,2 meter high waves in 30 knots - check out this video: https:&#x
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
Great question. What's different in our case is that the flight controller captures the boat’s movements from 7 sensors. Then it establishes the full-state 3×6 state matrix (position, velocity and acceleration with regards to position
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
Open waters on a windy day or the day after a windy day can be hard. Check out our videos from the Caribbean and a comparison with an 8 meter aluminum boat in a choppy archipelago condition. Can we foil in every single wave height there is?
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
There are plenty of markets & brands around the world that see lots of 8 meter sized day cruiser boats. Remember that boating is very locally adapted, with many boat models from Sweden never being exported to other regions, due to regio
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
Weeds can be an issue, unless the foils just cut through them. Taking off in a weed heavy water can be tricky, just like operating a jetski, a jet boat or a regular prop boat. It is true that a fish wouldn't fare too well either when h
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
Gasoline when burned emits 2.3kgs of CO2 One can confidently assume 1.5 liters per nautical mile for an 8 meter petrol boat at speeds above 20 knots. That's 3450 grams per NM. Our boats consume roughly 1 kwh per NM, from the grid. Swed
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
We also use Torqeedo, and a 42 kWh battery (35 ish usable for foiling). The thing about range in electric boats is that you rarely get figures for range at different speeds. A 35 kwh regularly built motorboat won't get near 50 nautica
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
You hit the nail on the head here. Safety is a key question that often comes up in discussions that we have with customers, and is of course a key focus in the development of the Candela model range. As you mention, the deep V hull cuts wav
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
To add to this, since our boats are foiling and carry a battery that's also in the BMW i3, we don't need super-fast charging to cover daily use. A 22 kW charger, like a semi fast one you'd find on the road, which is about a 1
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
That's a great question. Purpose. Even though some might consider boating a senseless activity, people around the world enjoy it dearly. Boating is simply one of the world's biggest outdoor activities. We could have gone for tryin
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
Hey Sandworm. Candela here. Sure, it's perfectly doable to put hydrofoils on any type of hull, especially passive hydrofoils. We tried, and it wasn't especially nice, nor efficient. The trick is to use fully submerged ones. But th
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by Candelaboat 6y ago
Hey Bullen, we do fine with 10 people on board. Check this video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1149405105441917 Do you also think that a Tesla Model 3, transporting 5 adults, but weighing in at above 1500kg is a b

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