AIT Around In Ten

Besides being the most awkwardly controlled, current directed, poor sailing, molasses slow, lump of crazy flotsam you could add non sailing, dangerous, ground finding , hydrodynamically inept monument to the folly of amateur designers.
Just a guess ....

 

I too have a design idea for the AiT. It is actually the polar opposite of artis' design. I don't have anything drawn, nor do I expect to go any further in such a venture than some mental exercises, but it feels, just like the above deep body proa design feels to artis, like it could work.

My design concept is to use speed as a safety feature. Make the boat a light, planing hull, driven by a kite sail. The sail would be, basically, a hang glider shape mounted on a ball swivel at the top of a short mast. The sail can be trimmed to act like a pacific lateen or crabclaw, or it can be angled on the mast head to lift, like a pair of kite wings.

The idea is to build her to perform like a racing dinghy, making as much as 15 knots on the right days, then choose a route that reduces the time at sea to only a few days per passage.

Sailing up the East coast of North America, for example, would bring you to the longest open sea passage of the trip, New Foundland to Greenland, at about 400 nautical miles. If a small sailboat can cross that at an average of ten knots, that's 40 hours. Maybe as much as five days at sea. Lots of comfortable in-port waiting for weather windows with short bursts of intense sailing. Stay out of deep mid-ocean regions where giant squid may just think a ten foot boat looks like a perfect midnight snack.

-Will

 

Thank you all for all the comments and replies. I have been a bit busy, but I will find time to reply to you in the coming days.

In the meantime, I drew a few sketches of my intended sailplan and described a few more things on my main thread about my possible future project:
Unusual design for an extra-heavy-displacement 11ft long Atlantic Proa for circumnavigation https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/unusual-design-for-an-extra-heavy-displacement-11ft-long-atlantic-proa-for-circumnavigation.68579/page-3#post-953316
Please let me know if you think I should post it separately also in this thread.

Have a great day everyone and speak soon!

Artis,
www.artis.guru