Going like a Boeing !
Mischa showing how its done .Watch the steering for balance, sheeting in and easing....moving body weight,steering the foils.....Going up to 22 + knots boat speed, in 12 knots TWS!See this link for...
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Mischa wins European Spring Championship at Lake Garda
Mischa did win convincingly this regatta. The second race he finished second after breaking a daggerboard. After that he sailed with one proto board and one conventional J- board and did win the...
View ArticleNew America’s Cup Protocol
The AC 35 will be sailed on 62 ft foiling catamarans and the AC45 will still be used for the AC series. The AC 45 will probably be updated to a foiler in 2016.The AC 34 attracted only four teams while...
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Flying high
I have just returned from the Europeans in France. It was awesome. I improved my flying a lot and had my moments of glory while foiling. Foiling through a fleet where many were just floating and then...
View ArticleFlying DNA
Mischa flying at Garda with the new Z-boards Glenn also used at the Europeans. The boards use an asymmetric profile supplied by D3 Technologies. Due to the profile the boards no longer ventilate, which...
View ArticleThe new era
Foiling is the new sailing. We saw it happen Round Texel, in the America's Cup, with the Flying Moths, the flying Laser, the Flying Phantom.Many projects and still much to learn. Although the flying...
View ArticleFlying the DNA
Hi All A class sailors .I hope this video, which was shot in two sessions on the lake by my home, (with Gopro camera on the helmet and one time on the boom), will make clear to all skeptics that...
View Articleworking on the DEFINITE original Z board
We recently made good progress in getting the flight even more controllable !New Z foils in the Autoclave by Holland Composites The shape is as the first ones , but the construction , the detailing and...
View ArticleWorking on the DEFINITE original Z board
Mischa testing the boards this week . blasting along at great control
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Hi,This is an email to inform you of the latest DNA developments.Sailing fast cats caught my attention in the early ‘80s and after graduating from the Delft Technical University as an industrial...
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At Holland Composites, we are working hard on the Gunboat G4 which is in many ways a DNA A-cat on steroids. However, there is much more going on than this big boat only and in the next few months we...
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The tapered DNA masts are nowadays produced exclusively for DNA by Fiberfoam. Fiberfoam continues to offer their #14 mast (untapered). We developed the tapered DNA mast in 2012, and it is a different...
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DNA A-cat on steroids
Hi all,Hope you won't mind seeing a blog from an A-cat newbie. Working at Holland Composites whilst being keen on writing and seeing lightweight multihulls moving around our facility day in, day out,...
View ArticleFirst New DNA's flying in the US
Bruce Mahoney got his new DNA rigged yesterday and send us this nice video of youtube video Bruce Mahoney Key Largo 'flight out the box 'Super smooth sailing! Bruce is Sailing the new DNA with L...
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Bruce Mahoney wins midwinter series
On his brand new DNA straight out the box Bruce wins the the midwinters serie in FL, USA.Just a close call with Woody cope, sailing the c boards Nikita.Especially on the second more windier day, Bruce...
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European season started
This week the first bigger championship of the season is on the program : the French Nationals, near Marseille.A good fleet is expected with mainly French boats .We are curious how ours French DNA...
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2015 North americans underway
Cool picture of bruce flying on day two of the North Americanslots of info found on :http://usaca.info
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fresh breeze testing ...
Some nice pics last weekend of Mischa pushing the DNA to the limit on flat water and 25 kn breeze .Topping a scary 28.4 knts top boat speed on the velocitek..Sometimes even we say don't try this at...
View ArticleDNA won the fourth world title A class ! congratulations to Glenn Ashby and...
DNA | HOLLAND COMPOSITES present the 2015 A-Cat Worlds from Holland Composites BV on Vimeo.
View ArticleThe new long video of the Punta Ala A class worlds 2015
DNA | HOLLAND COMPOSITES 2015 A-cat Worlds - extended version from Holland Composites BV on Vimeo.
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The DNA F1
After Punta Ala we set up a team to just consider new ideas and design directions. That design team was again Pieterjan Dwarshuis, Mischa Heemskerk as invaluable source of info and Rudo Enserink as...
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European spring championship for Mischa Heemskerk on DNA F1
Great sailing at Lake garda three weeks before the Worldchampionship In Holland.
View ArticleEND OF BLOG
This blog has served us well. However, time has come to proceed in a different way.We will not delete this blog direclty however for future updates and information of DNA, please...
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