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    Posted: 03 Apr 14 at 3:25pm
Ljungstrom rig - sort of double headsails that open out downwind.


And wow this is also a Ljungstrom design


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Thats the one I was thinking of!

And that hull - wow indeed.
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In 1949, Bee Makinnon (teacher at Eton) asked Austin Farrar to build him a wing sail for his Canoe “Defiant“
You can see a photo of Defiant p. 119 in David Chivers'book
From notes of Austin, he is not the first :
- Lord Brabazon in early 1930' mounted an aeroplane's wing vertically on a turnable on the deck of his Bembridge Redwing One-Design (200 sf ft).
- Uffa Fox in the mid 1930' mounted an biplane's wing on a InT 14' Dinghy.
But there are others precursors, for ex. :
- In 1934, Michel Meneo designed and built the Oberdan, with a wing sail with flexing battens, like Patient Lady II in 1971
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