Wingsail - Wikipedia
Wingsails typically are a fixed surface area. Conventional sails can be furled easily; some flexible wingsails can be dropped, when not in use; rigid wingsails must be removed when exposure to wind is undesirable.
The Fixed-Wing Is In: America's Cup Sailors Plan to Use Rigid …
Nov 10, 2009 · SAN DIEGO—After more than a year of practicing for the America's Cup, the U.S. team is replacing its boat's lofty 60-meter mast and 620-square-meter cloth mainsail with a hard, fixed wing...
Fixed wing sail controls and drawings | Boat Design Net
Aug 31, 2023 · Reality proves that the optimistic claims for the (alleged) advantage of fixed wings over soft sails are enormously overstated. In most classes in which they have been tried, even by experts, fixed wings were significantly slower than normal sails.
Have Wingsails Gone Mainstream? - Sail Magazine
May 14, 2014 · The Omer Wing Sail is actually three “sails”—two panels and a fabric leading edge for the wing—all set on a rotating carbon fiber A-frame mast. When setting up the rig, the two mains are hoisted up the A-frame legs, and the leading edge goes up tracks in front of the mast.
Sailing the sea with composite wings | CompositesWorld
Mar 31, 2012 · Develop a means to propel an unmanned surface vessel for reliable and maintenance-free performance. An all-composite rigid wing system, free to rotate 360° around a fixed mast and controlled by a computer. Sailors have been furling and unfurling, and generally wrestling with voluminous sails for millennia.
The new wingsail concept that could revolutionise shipping
Mar 15, 2023 · Low drag, minimal mast compression and low loads are just three of the key advantages a wingsail offers over the conventional approach of a single skin sail and have been well known for some...
What's In A Rig? - Wingsail - American Sailing
Jan 13, 2016 · When compared to a solid wing, a soft sail is full of hard to manage variables. The shape, components and accompanying systems are no match for a wingsail. In many ways, a conventional sailboat rig is fighting against itself to do what it’s meant to do.
Parallel fixed wing or conical sails? | SailNet Community
Sep 18, 2023 · I would like to explore the possibility of parallel fixed wing sails positioned on each hull about mid-ship. The foot of the sails will need to be quite narrow. The reason for this is that the "between hulls" section of the boat is occupied with a structure.
Swing Keel or Fixed Wing Keel? Catalina 22 or 25?
Jul 11, 2006 · What would be better, a swing keel, or a fixed wing keel for ease of trailering (launching and retrieving)? Both the C22 and C25 have a swing keel option, or a wing keel option. Or, are they both equally trailerable?
Swing Keel or Fixed Wing Keel? Catalina 22 or 25?
Jul 12, 2006 · Pure sailing a fixed keel is best. But when you want to gunk hole for the night a swing keel provides access to shallower water. I remember one anchorage on a lake that my wife and I liked a lot.