See the award-winning Flying Mantis at the RYA Dinghy Show 2019 stand B60

The award-winning Flying Mantis foiling trimaran will be showing the latest, all red hull design at the RYA Dinghy Show 2019.

Voted best Dinghy of the Year against stiff competition in the recent British Yachting Awards, the Flying Mantis makes foiling attainable for sailors of all shapes, sizes and levels of ability. This all carbon dinghy can accommodate taller sailors, weighing up to 120kgs, whilst the two sleek, wave piercing outriggers bring excellent stability.

The concept behind this high performance, fast dinghy design is for performance foiling to be open to all and easy to do. British designed and built, the boat is quick and simple to set up and dismantle, so you have more time afloat. Being very light (approx 25kg central hull and 12.5kg outriggers) the boat will take off at lower speeds enabling more fun in lighter breezes.

Flying Mantis MD, Simon Chrispin, comments: “The joy of foiling is incredible. It’s addictive. The Flying Mantis is for sailors who want the thrills and experience of foiling a performance dinghy, yet who want to be confident that they will master it, before investing hours of their time learning the skills, or taking involuntary swims! Not all of us are svelte athletes either. The Flying Mantis opens up foiling to a much wider range of sailors who want to get airborne and share the fun.”

Uniquely, the Flying Mantis is in fact two boats in one, so it’s flexible for all the family.  As well as comfortably carrying crews up to 120kg, you can switch from the central T-foil mode to a non-foiling configuration too.  This lightweight trimaran has a regular rudder and daggerboard, enabling sailing in a wide range of conditions, from light airs to very windy, and progression at your own speed to foiling.  It means you can get afloat when others may be putting the cover back on if there is too much or too little breeze for foiling.

British Sailing Team member, Sam Whaley, said after his boat test: “I really loved the boat. It has the elegance of a Rolls Royce with the speed of a Moth! Very impressed!”

The all carbon hulls are customisable too. The boat on display at the RYA Dinghy Show is an all red model and will be showing the new rudder stock, for low hassle launching and recovery. Plus, a new dagger board and lift-up rudder for displacement sailing.

See the Flying Mantis video  https://youtu.be/klCi9UKSYJo

Flying Mantis boat tests can be arranged at the RYA Dinghy Show on stand B60.