Michael Quiel enjoys recreational activities like golf, skiing, and water sports, especially hydrofoiling. A hydrofoil is a wing-like structure attached to a boat's hull that lifts the hull out of the water as speed increases, reducing drag and boosting speed. The first hydrofoil boat was built in 1906 and achieved speeds over 42 mph, with a 1919 adaptation setting a record of 69 mph that stood for over 40 years. Many navies have developed hydrofoils for military use, and research led to jetfoils used on patrol boats and predecessors to jetskis, though human-powered models have been impractical except as novelties.

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Michael Quiel

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 The owner/president of Legend Advisory Corporation since 2001, Michael
Quiel brings more than two decades of investment experience to his
position as managing partner of the Scottsdale, Arizona, company’s Asset
Opportunity Master Fund. Outside the office, Michael Quiel enjoys a wide
range of recreational activities, including golf, snow skiing, and water
sports, especially hydrofoiling.

3. Hydrofoils
 Strictly speaking, a hydrofoil is a structure that looks like a wing that is
attached to the hull of a boat and is submerged while the boat is at rest. As
the boat increases speed, the hydrofoil develops sufficient lift to raise the
entire hull out of the water, significantly decreasing hull drag and further
increasing the boat’s speed. Both the wing-like structures and the boats
that employ them are called hydrofoils.

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 The first hydrofoil boat was designed and built in 1906 by Italian inventor
Enrico Forlanini. It used a series of foils in a ladder-like configuration to lift the
hull from the water. Forlanini’s boat achieved speeds in excess of 42 mph.
In 1919, an adaptation of Forlanini’s boat, designed by Alexander Graham
Bell and built by Casey Baldwin, set a record of 60 knots, or about 69 mph,
a record that stood for more than 40 years.

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 Many of the world’s navies have developed hydrofoils for military use, and
research by the U.S. Navy and Boeing led to the jetfoil employed by the
patrol hydrofoil missile ship, the predecessor to the immensely popular jetski.
While most hydrofoils are designed to work with a motor to develop the
necessary speed, developers have experimented with human-powered
hydrofoils, the first successful models of which appeared in Germany in the
1950s. These craft, most of which look like water-based bicycles, are
currently impractical as anything but a novelty. Nevertheless, designers are
still hard at work trying to build one that will catch on with the general
public.