aiifoil shapes for sailboat

[corsaro]

hello,
who has informations of this type of sail ? (builder, info, book, website....)

see the picture

thanks

[brian eiland]

Have a look here,
http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12019 (http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12019)

You might consider posting your picture and question on that subject thread.

BTW, welcome to the forum as I see you are a new poster. Just a hint, the 'search function/button' can locate lots of subjects you may be interested in, and your message gets out to all of those people who have contributed to that subject

[corsaro]

thanks,
but I'm interested only the sail sistem, no complete boat

[PI Design]

Steve Clark knows a fair bit about wing sails, but wasn't involved with that particular one, I think.

[brian eiland]

Just posted a few older photos of that vessel I had in my files
http://boatdesign.net/forums/showpost.php?p=128813&postcount=25 (http://boatdesign.net/forums/showpost.php?p=128813&postcount=25)

If you go to the search button and type in (in quotes) "wing sail" I think you will find quite a number of discussions on the subject

[tspeer]

The boat is Stars and Stripes
Builder of the wing: Scaled Composites
Designers of the wing: Dave Hubbard and Duncan MacLane
Website (http://www.americascup.com/en/acclopaedia/boatdestiny/index.php?idIndex=0&idContent=5171)