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    Posted: 04 Jan 22 at 7:04pm
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Originally posted by 423zero

Griff, what do you make of the 'dead downwind speed' thing? Thought you would be all over that.


If like me you joined the AYRS which I ran into during my eccentric speed week and revolutionary sail design period, in which I had to develop a sail to allow light weight me to take on heavyweight speed meat heads. You meet all those kind of guys, how to sail dead upwind, perpetual motion devices, although I must admit that device is genius in that it works. I love eccentrics that want to defy the alleged laws of physics, one day someone may find the means to travel faster than light, which I once proved to my physics master at school in theory at least only to be treated with as much derision as I receive here.

Honestly I don't fully understand a lot of what the informed guys have clearly postulated, nobody has adequately explained in a manner that convinces me for instance that a rack and wire achieve the same thing and that need to be disproved.

So this theory v mechanics thing aint over for me, there's something missing that I haven't completely grasped, even if you assume the weight transfer goes up the wire, then down the other side via the lee shroud, the leverage is still greater than that same weight being applied to a static rack which would scientifically explain at least why a trapeze is faster.

Fellow AYRS - this is me suspended from a trapeze in 87 Weymouth speed trials - the week of the big storm  

Won’t let me post a picture so here’s a link to my blog 





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Tink, interesting design, did you ever look at moving the smaller hull from side to side ? Like a boom, perhaps have a spring to lift it out of the water when you took your weight off it.
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Originally posted by 423zero

Tink, interesting design, did you ever look at moving the smaller hull from side to side ? Like a boom, perhaps have a spring to lift it out of the water when you took your weight off it.

No, keeping the mast up with the stays it had to the end of the outrigger and weight steering was enough of a challenge. I didn’t have any relevant qualifications at the time and in terms of actual performance it was an total failure. The whole venture was a lot of fun and led to other things so all good. Still won’t actually post a picture 
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A couple of years ago, I looked into using small retractable foils to aid in keeping boat flat, 0ne either side, leeward foil would provide lift, but only enough to keep boat flat, micro adjustments would be made by helm hiking, (actually would have been a perching boar), foils would be snug to hull when not in use.
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Originally posted by 423zero

A couple of years ago, I looked into using small retractable foils to aid in keeping boat flat, 0ne either side, leeward foil would provide lift, but only enough to keep boat flat, micro adjustments would be made by helm hiking, (actually would have been a perching boar), foils would be snug to hull when not in use.

Sounds very interesting, I know they are controlled by gyros but stabilisers on big ships are tiny. 
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Great, now you have gone up in my estimation.
Here's my radical sail development which allowed the luff curve to be radically altered to vary the twist which actually worked, but the craft I tried to use it on which became knicknamed the Water Pusher, by my nephew who was an Olympic hope(less) at the time and ended up with me clinging to a buoy waiting to be rescued

The sail had constantly variable luff curve which enable me to go quite fast, it also allowed me to survive a 48 knots of wind run alongside Those big kids Dunkerbeck and Dave White, unfortunateely the 48 knot squall was a header so none of us went particularly fast, but the fact I got through carrying 2 sq mtr more sail than them proved my concept. (It was 7 sqmtr).

To adjust it you use the straps to induce more negative curve at the head and more more positive in the mid section with the mast already pre bent and a sleeve to covere the innards.







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And here's the fateful water pusher that failed.

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Very cleaver and professional, sounds like it had a lot of potential, what you were trying to do with the board makes sense. Maybe too much of a quantum leap in one package.


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