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Wing sail technology
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Wing Sail Technology : A wingsail is a form of marine propulsion similar to conventional sails. However, a wingsail is a built-up structure with airfoil cross-section, like an airplane wing, which shape can provide a much better lift-to-drag ratio than conventional sails.
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Watch the final assembly of the AC45 Wing Sail at 101 Halsey Street, Auckland...
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Pete covers the history of hard sail technology, the construction of the BOR hard wing sail (including photos!), sailing on the trimaran, and other innovative hard wing sail applications.
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The America's Cup is such a technology-driven event that it often benefits the sport of sailing as a whole. Past innovations such as the wing keel have helped cruising yachts achieve shallower drafts so that they can get closer to ...
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3D fly around alternate animation we created for the America's Cup declaration of the AC72 Catamaran, Valencia, new class of boat for the America's Cup, Vide...
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OOOooop s... looking bloody cool this thing ! a piece of craftmanship that's for sure .....
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With the BMW Oracle America's Cup boat tossing their conventional sails for an enormous wing sail, questions have been pouring in from all over the world with readers wanting to know about these strange looking sails.
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60-foot catamaran wing-sail 1988 May 1988San Diego 4 June 1988 at San Diego “The boats are going to be very big, very radical, and very controversial. The contest will not be a sailboat race.
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Nacra 36 sailing in Australia with wingmast like bmw oracle. Difference: Nacra had this wing sailing in 1984! NACRA, always one step ahead!!
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Well we've seen a foiling Oppie (below), now with the America's Cup going wingsail, so this technology has been adapted by the Oracle Racing team for the blunt bowed youth dinghy. Several of the offspring of Oracle Racing's teammembers ...
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