AAARrrrrrrgggghhhh!. I had a nice post wiped out, because I started it this morning, then finished it after lunch. When I went to post it, I got a "TIMEOUT" error, after which I had lost all the text I had written.

So, anyway. My simple idea was to put all-flying, swept canards on the outboard gunwales of the sponsons. The "elevator" channel would be mixed with about 0-10 deg of control range available thru a knob on the transmitter. Each canard sized to be about 1/4 - 1/3 the area of the "stabilizer"

The ATV for the "elevator channel would actually allow about 20 deg of down, so the gyro could command that much if needed. If you need more than that to keep control, the battle has probably been lost anyway. Actually, even that much is likely overkill.

Basically, what I'm saying is there would be a knob on your transmitter that would command a nose-up amount from the canard from flat to 10 deg nose up, then the gyro would have the authority to go as much as 20 deg nose down to keep the boat flat.

It sure would be cool to see a boat like this jump off a wake or ?? and just maintain a stable slight nose up attitude until it landed back in the water.

Actually, one thing that would be kind of fun would be to put canards on a hydro foam and manage them with a headin-hold gyro. Just replace the elevon function with a couple of canards. Gotta look at that little sucker tonite.