Scaling foiling: Industrialization and retrofit
Two strategies are emerging to bring foiling to a wider market: digital workflows and series production on one hand, and retrofitting existing fleets on the other. But retrofit is realistically only an option for smaller boats, given cost and structural constraints. This panel weighs how scalable each pathway is, and what they mean for builders considering their first step into foiling.
Speakers
Luigi is senior project manager in the Ships department (Division Yachts) at MARIN. He graduated with a MSC Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from University Federico II of Naples (Italy) in 2012, and has been working in the Netherlands at MARIN since 2013 as a project manager concerning powering and seakeeping aspects (involving design advice, hull form optimization, performance predictions with CFD and/or model testing). Luigi has a deep interest into the ship design from a multidisciplinary point of view and into the possibilities of continuous integration of innovations in the ship design itself. Most of the free time is still spent in the water with watersports such as kitesurf, kitefoiling and sailing.