O velă de probă a noului instalație revoluționară Wingsail a lui Beneteau | Lumea Yachtingului

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1. Head wagger

2. Pirate's of yesteryear used fore 'n aft rigs (sloop) because they can sail closer to the wind than anyother type – for very good reason.
   Being upwind enabled them to periodically lob shells onto their victim until they submitted.

   Off the wind, no other boat can compete with a crab-claw sail unless your course requires frequent tacking.

3. Twist on the aero rig

4. Twist on the aero Rigg

5. Can it be reefed in a blow?

6. bet the rig alone, costs more than all the one design boats i have ever owned

7. Looks somewhat like a cross of the Walker wing sail and a Beirig Camberspar.

8. I've never been on a sailboat but after watching this I think I like it LOL

9. Myself and two partners were at the Miami yacht show back around 1983 and tried to show you guys this way back then but nobody would listen to us the inventor of that type of sale is passed away many years ago now we tried hard to show the world that there’s a better way to make a sailboat travel but nobody would listen. The man’s name was Warner Martin Moss

10. 40 years ago we tried to tell you these people that but nobody would listen

11. Performance information would have been good.

12. I remember a chap trying to sell his wing sails at the boat show {Earls Court] back in the early to mid seventies, designed for cruisers, he had little success but a great deal of interest. I wonder if the development and acceptance of wing sails in the racing field will win over the general sailing public ?

13. There is no mast reinforcement. So, how are the lift forces balanced? It could be some serious issues at strong wind. But please keep working on it and improving the design. The wing sailing has proven itself before.

14. 2020 what is the update on this?

15. This is probably silly, but why doesn't the mast revolve?That way you could fix the rigging. Ok,go on, shoot me.

16. BUT , IS IT FAST ? THIS WAS 2014 , IT IS NOW 2020 AND I HAVE NOT HEARD A THING ABOUT IT, SO MAYBE IT DIDN'T PASS MUSTER.

17. Funny you say its a new invention when in fact wingsails have been around for decades. My first contact with a wingsail on a cruiser was in the early 2000. Kelsall has always been a strong supporter for wingsails, especially on cats.

18. Dam! Another of my inventions gone!

19. Yeah, no. I prefer more classic boats. Where you do tacking yourself, and have sails that aren't more effort to hoist than their worth.

20. Wharram has been using wing sails for decades, and he developed them from prior designs spanning centuries. This one is a nice combination of sailboarding bows and sail batons, permitting better stability of and control over the shape of the sail.

21. How do you reef it?

22. I’ve known a few sailors who got conked on the head during a “surprise” jibe—one of them actually knocked off the boat and suffering a concussion. I couldn’t tell in this brief video really how much “safer” this wing rig is with a “crash” jibe.

23. How do you feel it?

24. As a old guy this looks fantastic. How do you you reef with this?

25. I would love to see two on either side of a cat

26. To those who want’s news from this boat I sailed her last summer (2020) from it’s ship yard (Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie) to Port-la-Forêt (south britany, France) and it works pretty well ! We were downwind and we reached 10 Kts With 20kts winds.
    The project has been abandonned due to shipyard decision (cost reduction and changing in project développement). The boat stayed in land for 5 years waiting for a buyer and it turn out to be Michel Desjoyeaux

27. So, it's been 7 years now. I guess they're not going to do anything with it.

28. Would love an update!

29. I would be really interesting to see a rig like this, perhaps a little larger, on a 40-50 foot catamaran or trimaran. I hope they've continued developing this.

30. The wild swinging of the boom could be very dangerous to sailers…..

31. So 7 yrs on. Seemed such a good idea. Any more progress into production cruisers??

32. So, it has been 7 years. I've been waiting (5 or so versions of this wander through roughly every 10 years; Oceanwings is another one). What is the hold-up?
    Does anyone have a good read on the pitfalls of unstayed masts? Is that the issue?

33. It looks very interesting. I would like to see the reefing process and how the sail behave in strong winds and big waves.

34. It'd be interesting how this copes with bad weather

35. The junk rig has come a long way!

36. Saw this same set up on a canvas and paper catamaran in wooden boat's mag. Twenty years ago .

37. Can you reef it in high winds??

38. So its an Aerorig with a sail that looks a bit more complex

39. Dove vederti?

40. Buy a cat rig boat.

41. I wonder how much more lift you can get from this sail vs a conventional modern sail. In Principles of Yacht Design they discuss trying to minimize turbulence over the mast and I can see this design improving that condition.

42. But is it faster than the normal rig?

43. Pity the Chinese thought of it a few thousand years ago …looks very like a junk rig to me!

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