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Mikael, my hats off to you and your fine product and sweat you poured into it. My apologies if in any way I seemed to criticize performance of your craft, far from it. I know nothing of it, and electric is going to be the only way in the near future. The context got shifted toward it somehow.

My general skepticism regarding hydrofoils comes from, quite frankly, not seeing that much damage with them because they don't exist 'in the wild' so much here to establish a conventional sense for most U.S. east coast watermen. Plenty of other issues that everyone I know is familiar with, most commonly groundings and striking objects, and occasionally catching cage lines on props. The petrol-era weight bias sticks around and this is where I hope you show us very wrong. I'd love to see some rough water videos of your C-7.

My original response from where everything else stemmed from is that right now this isn't a practical conversion for a common man with something like a 27' cabin cruiser, certainly not in the pocketbook. I do not know how much the C-7 costs, but was my sticker shock that far off?

[Candelaboat]

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 stems from a high production cost, the whole boat is built like an aircraft, in carbon fiber (the designer used to work at Eurocopter) to be as light as possible. The weight of the hull and deck is about 240 kg. So our main goal for the future is to reduce the costs - by a lot. But think about C-7 as the Tesla Roadster. But our foiling ferry for the city of Stockholm will be launched next year, and then people using the Stockholm public transport system can go foiling for 2€.