JOYSTICKS: THERE'S ONLY ONE ON THE RAVE
Jeez, Dave! You gotta stop looking at Hollis' and Doran's boats and applying what they've modified to a stock factory Rave. Hollis Caffee did install a joystick for each flap on the amas but that was his own mod; not the factory's. The Rave still is manufactured with one joystick that controls only the RUDDER flap and that is there to give an assist to an earlier liftoff.

CRASHING: IT HAPPENS ONCE
Regarding crashing, on the Rave it's kind of like a bicycle. If you keep falling over on a bicycle you may tend to blame the design. Training wheels are not necessary once you learn the technique. The fact is that you simply have to learn how to stay up without crashing. When first learning to fly you can literally fly the boat out of the water and most of us have. No big deal. Just add more bungee tension next time (see next topic below). Once you fall down you learn not to do that again. Kinda like a bike.

LEVELING: IT'S AUTOMATIC. NO JOYSTICKS NECESSARY
The Rave has an automatic leveling system for the flaps port and starboard. The leveling system works with a bungee connected to a wand that rides on the surface of the water. The wand is connected to the ama's flaps. There is a bungee to starboard wand and one to port. The wands, port and starboard, ride the water's surface and adjust the flaps automatically. The bungees are there to keep the wands from flying up from the surface. The two bungees are led to the control deck in front of the pilot through a camcleat for each bungee. So, bottom line, the Rave has an automatic leveling system and once you learn how much tension to apply, your hands are free. No joysticks necessary. No crashing impending.

THE ONLY JOYSTICK YOU NEED:
The joystick, only one, is connected to the rudder flap. You adjust bow attitude with this stick.

SO WHO HAS ALL THOSE JOYSTICKS?
Hollis Caffee and Doran Oster, both in the Gainesville, FLA area, did away with the automatic leveling (the wands) and added a stick to each flap, hence, the boat needs an octopus to fly the thing. Hollis and Doran Oster made the mod in order to have manual control while racing in their quest for improvement. For long hauls they readily admit that this system would be very tiring. I liken it to fuel injection on a car and would not think of ditching it in favor of having someone manually spit gasoline into each hole in rapid succession would be an improvement.

JUST LIKE AN AIRPLANE:
I think the pilots reading this will see that flying a Rave is just like flying an airplane: one control for the port and starboard wing flaps and a joystick for controlling the rudder.

STEERING THE CRAFT:
You steer the Rave with foot pedals connected to cables to the rudder.

DURABILITY:
Unlike the production foiler that begins with an "H" the Rave is bullet proof and can fly on many points of sail. It's too bad that the Hobie Tri-foiler was based on early technology and has proven limited and fragile. It gave a bad name to foilers in general. It's also too bad that the Rave was marketed (if you can call it that) by a kayak company and it's message never reached the intended multihull market.