WingSail
Design/ Boat Name
|
Designer
|
Year
|
Wing
Construction Type
|
Comments
|
|
Warialda
Pleasure Craft
|
?
|
2001
|
Rigid
- Composite
|
A
solid foil with a trailing edge flap
|
Double
skin junk sail
|
Robert
Biegler
|
2000
|
Soft
|
A
Double skin junk sail
|
The
Volantis wing
/Hydro Wing - company
"EIFO" prototype trifoil
|
Dr.
Sam Bradfield - the boat
David Hubbard - for the wingsail
|
2001
- website
1998 - wingsail design
|
wing
mast, mast flap, trim flap- Rigid-composite
|
Prototype
Phase
wing made up of following: wingmast, mast flap,
main sail, trim flap
= a computerized full airfoil system
the system can be reefed
|
ECO-RANGER
|
James
H. Crafer
|
2000
|
Rigid-composite
|
Design
Phase
Hybrid Electric/Sail power
solar panels mounted on rigid wing
|
?
|
Richard
Lawson
|
2000
|
Soft
|
double
film sail
|
PowerFoil
|
Gordon
Ross
|
1980's/
2000 production
|
Soft
|
double
sided soft sail with full battens - currently
for windsurfer
|
Windrocket
|
Ken
Fry
|
1999-
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Prototype
constructed and currently being tested March
2001
|
A-Wing
|
Tom
Ross
|
1999-
|
Soft
|
Currently
only available for windsurfers.
double film sail with carbon composite RIBs
which are an integral part of the sail surface.
|
Atlantis
|
Gabriel
Elkaim
|
1998-
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Design
phase
computer controlled
|
Dynawing/
DynaRig
|
Rob
Hobbs /
Patrick & Greg Johnston
|
1998-
/
1985-
|
Soft
|
Prototype
phase
|
Tom's
SpeedSail/
Aeroskimmer
|
|
1997?-
|
|
Built
and sailed
|
Cogito
|
Duncan
MacLane & Steve Clark
|
1996
|
Rigid
- composite
|
Built
and Sailed
C-Class cat
|
Extreme
50
|
Lindsay
Cunningham
|
1994?-
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
|
DoyleWing
|
A
norwegian in partnership with DoyleSail, Norway
|
1994?
|
Soft
|
Prototype
built but never got to market
|
Yellow
Pages Endeavor
|
Lindsay
Cunningham
|
1993-
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
|
Aero-Hydrofoil
|
Bob
Imhoff
|
1992
-
|
Soft
|
Three
prototypes built and sailed
|
The
Edge III
|
Lindsay
Cunningham
|
1991
|
|
Built
and sailed
|
Techniques
Avancées
|
|
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
|
Cornell
University Rigid Airfoil RAFT
|
|
1995-
|
|
Built
and ?
|
Walker
WingSail/Zephyr
|
John
G. Walker
|
1994?
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
|
Boatek
|
Bob
Quinton
|
1994-
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
|
Miss
Nylex
|
Chris
Wilson
|
?
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
|
Latham
Wing/ WingSailer
|
?
Latham
|
1995?
|
Soft
wing of Dacron with rigid leading edge wing slot
|
Several
production units built
|
Altair
XII
|
David
Hubbard co-designed the wing
|
1990
|
Rigid
|
winner
of the Bol D'Or race on Lake Geneva in
Switzerland.
|
Stars
and Stripes 88
|
David
Hubbard - the wing
|
1988-
|
Rigid
|
Built
and sailed
|
Seaflier
|
Patrick
Cudmore
|
1971-1985
|
Soft
|
Three
prototypes built and sailed over a fourteen year
period
|
Tiki
Rig
|
James
Wharram
|
1981-
|
Soft
|
Built
and sailed
|
Planesail
|
J.
Walker
|
1980?
|
Rigid
|
Built
and sailed
Four riged foils
|
Patient
Lady III,VI
|
David
Hubbard - the wing
|
?
|
Rigid
– composite
|
Built
and sailed
Three symetrical panels for III and two elements
for VI
|
Gallant
rig or
Aero-junk
|
Jack
Manners-Spencer of Aerosystems Ltd.
|
Late
1970's?
|
Soft
|
Very
similar construction to Dragon's Wings with same
reefing capability. The rig does not open
up for downwind sailing.
|
Tackwind
|
|
1974
|
Rigid
|
Built
and sailed
Solid sail rotates about masthead
|
Padded
sail
|
J.
Nicolson
|
1972
|
Soft
|
Built
and sailed
Double sided sail of terylene stuffed with
layers of foam
|
|
Jerry
Hubbard ? Designer or David Hubbard?
|
1970-
|
Soft
|
Double
film with full length batten tension controlled
the shape C-class cat built by Tony DiMauro of
Roton Point, Connecticut in the 1970's for the
Little America's cup challenge
|
Lady
Helmsman
|
Austin
Farrar
|
1966
|
Soft
|
Una
wing sail - thick rigid leading edge foil (mast)
with sail cloth extension
|
Gekete
and Newman’s Boat
|
D.
Gekete and B. Newman
|
1965
- 1971
|
Rigid
|
Self
Trimming wingsail
|
Blackburn’s
Boat
|
Blackburn
|
1962
|
Rigid
|
|
Lapwing
rig/ Jester
|
H.G.
Hasler
|
1952-1959
|
Soft
|
An
improvement on the Ljungstrom rig: Twin booms
added. Same configuration as Dragon's
Wings.
|
Freely
pivoted aerofoil unit
|
H.
Barkla
|
1951
|
|
Two
tilted wingsails
|
|
MacKinnon
|
1951
|
|
Wingsails
AYRS
|
Utne’s
Boat
|
Utne
|
1941
|
Rigid
|
|
Ljungstrom
rig
|
Dr.
Fredrik Ljungstrom
|
1935
|
Soft
|
Not
a wingsail but had the same capabilities as
Dragon's Wings when running. The rig did
not have the twin booms like Dragon's wings
though.
was a una rig with an unstayed rotatable mast
that had a loose-footed folded sail that opened
up when running.
|
R
boat - Live Yankee
|
F.
Herreshoff
|
1925-1927
|
Soft
|
Double
luff sail with revolving mast
|
Dragon’s
Wing (Chinese translation)
|
|
1897-1902
|
Soft
|
Built
and sailed
Modified Chinese lug sail on a Junk
Double
sided sail with full length battens placed on
inside surface of each side. Battens were made
of thin wooden slats tied together. Mast was
unstayed and rotated with sail. Met great great
grandson of the designer/builder in Lisbon
Portugal at the Expo. The rig I currently use on
my D4 is based on this rig.
|
|
Dennis
Conner
|
?
|
|
designed
a wingsailed catarmaran for the Americas Cup?
|