Hey Bruce,

I don't know if you've seen these things go, but they are already tuned to essentially fly with only the prop in the water, and the hulls only kissing or ticking off the water. So "disaster is only a blink away" already. In what other surface based sport (FS) do the drivers wear parachutes?

So the addition of a tunable gyro stabilized system could only make things better. The lift on the canards would tune the overall lift on the hull of the boat, maximizing speed. But any disturbance, water or air based, could be damped by a gyro with sufficient gain. Even if a wave is responsible for kicking the boat into the air, it is an aerodynamic problem once that initial evant has taken place. So, a gyro-canard could be quite usefull. It could even be tuned to lower the nose with application of rudder do provide more hull in the water to effect the turn. No need for it to be tuned with a downforce for normal operation tho.

If they have to be inboard to satisfy rules, so be it.