Question about wingsail foil shape

Discussion in 'Hydrodynamics and Aerodynamics' started by satrams, May 6, 2014.

  1. satrams
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    satrams Junior Member

    That is pretty cool, Fusioneng. I bet there's a future in that hybrid way of thinking.
     
  2. CT249
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    CT249 Senior Member

    I couldn't work out what the new thinking was. Wasn't he effectively just using motor and human power to generate apparent wind?

    Since the last 40 years have seen the invention of windsurfing, kiting, the modern assymetric spinnaker and modern wingsails as well as the many other ideas that have flopped, I find it hard to believe that there has been a significant lack of new thinking about rigs as he claims. Certainly motorsailing (which is effectively what he was doing) is hardly new.
     
  3. fusioneng
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    fusioneng Junior Member

    your correct no new thinking, and definately nothing special or spectacular.

    but I do have lots of fun for under a buck a week
     

  4. Rurudyne
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    Rurudyne Senior Member

    Very cool.

    While your description and in the video seems fairly straight forward have you ever posted drawings?
     
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