Testing before flying!

The Wot Rocket is half sailboat/sail plane; a nine meter long canoe
style hull with two tiny foils, each about a sixth of the size of a Moth

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foil and a nine meter rigid sail, then a traverse beam out of an aerodynamic
twin pod crew compartment. It is built entirely from carbon fiber and
weighs approximately 400 kilos.The difference between this sailboat/sail
plane and any that have come before it is that it will be attempting to
break through the water speed barrier using a technology as yet untried on
any sailing craft supercavitation - to reduce the drag which is around
1,000 times greater in the water than in air.

Supercavitation will in effect mean Wot Rocket flies in a gas bubble created
by the outward deflection of water by a specially shaped nose cone and the
expansion of gases from its fin and foil design. By keeping water from
contacting the surface of the body of Wot Rocket, this will significantly
reduce drag and allow extremely high speeds.

The concept behind the Wot Rocket approach is to induce supercavitation at
lower speeds where control can still be maintained and from there push
through to the top speeds.Supercavitation means Wot Rocket should only
require a fraction of the 45-50 knot winds that Albeau needed to go 0.39
knots better than the previous record. A moderate 18-20 knots should do the
trick believes Langman.