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Techniques Avancées, NEW WEBSITE On 24 June 1997, this catamaran/foiler claimed the for sailboats in Class D (unlimited sail area) with a speed of Now it is being relaunched to be even faster. (Note: page is in French)
International Hydrofoil Society - new web address!
Bill Serjeant's new Micro-Sailboat site
An Austrian Proa - simple, quick and fun!
Richard Wood's sailing catamaran designs - for amateurs and professionals
Giles Whittaker's Foil Stabilised Sailcraft
Designing a Sailing
Vessel that can sail into the "Eye" of the wind (Peter Worsley) - Yes,
it's real. No, it DOESN'T contravene the laws of thermodynamics!
How the rotary
(windmill) sailing craft works (the theory from Peter)
Amateur Yacht Research Society -- Yacht science for those who study it for love - both the paid and the unpaid! (This is the new URL, although many of the links come back via my AYRS Pages)
A VERY good introduction to Airfoils and Airflow
The BoatBuilding Community - a comprehensive Internet resource about boat design, building, and repair.
Cedric Savineau's speed sailing page -- NEW LOCATION --includes pointers to various other items of related interest including an interesting test and analysis of cavitation in the foils used to prevent leeway on Longshot
Rolf V. Oestergaard's KITESKI page - Wind, Kite, Water, Ski, Fun!
Bloodaxe Foils This
is a sort of semi-commercial site. Bloodaxe Boats is a small company based
on the Isle of Wight, and owner Andy Paterson is a noted innovator and
experimenter, particularly in the International Moth and Cherub Classes,
and in gathering the material for this site has ransacked scrapbooks and
archives from the last twenty years.
As well as the normal commercial information - prices for boats, foils,
availability of plans and so on, the site also contains much interesting
material on his boats over the years, including photographs of a hydrofoil-borne
International Moth, and a photo showing what has to be the smallest car
ever to carry an A Class Catamaran on its roof rack.
Wipika power kite -- a very interesting "engine" for wing/kite-powered sailing. The primary use is for FlySurf, but many other applications are possible. The idea of inflatable tubes instead of spars is interesting. The web-pages contains many photos and detailed drawings.
First
Australian Sailing Science Conference, Hobart, November 27 - 29th, 1997.
Specific topics covered by this meeting include: •Sports science •Hull,
rig and sail design •Instrumentation •High performance sailing •Sailboarding/other
- fin and hull design, virtual reality .
This meeting is being organised by the University of Tasmania, Department
of Anatomy and Physiology. Contact person is Dr Justin Walls, (EMail J.Walls@physiol.utas.edu.au),
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, GPO Box 252-24, Hobart, Tasmania,
7001. Tel: (03) 6226 2663 Fax: (03) 6226 2679.
Shuttle Bike - a kit to make your cycle amphibious !! (Most of the site is in Swedish, but this page is in a number of languages)
Kalle's Page About Icesurfing windsurfing on snow and ice - Cool !
Sailing page of Mac Stevens Fast sailboats, wingsail sailboats, soft sail hydrofoils, aerohydrofoils, wing in ground effect vehicles, kite powered craft, . . . .
Nimanoa - a 15 foot experimental proa
The Proa FAQ - material on these "one-sided" craft assembled by John Kohnen
Pacific Proa Company - more proa designs and links
Kite Tugs - an idea for saving fuel for commercial shipping (page moved to new URL)
Skate sailing inside a wingsail, 120 km/h, 75 mph. also www.skatewing.de
Non-planar wings (report from Stanford Uni.)
The case for Transport Sail Craft by Billy Roeseler, Theo Schmidt, Andrew Beattie, Cory Roeseler, Dave Culp, Russell Long, Tad McGeer, & Richard Wallace - a study of new applications of windpower to sea transport. (page moved to new URL)
Dave Culp's Speed Sailing page(page moved to new URL)
Jacob's Ladder, Ian Day's kite powered Tornado catamaran,
Kitesailing Progress, by Roeseler and Culp, pub: Sail Tech, AIAA at Stanford, 1989
Catamaran Sailor NewsMagazine (National U.S. monthly for beach cat and multihull racers/sailors)
By-The-Sea boating journal located at: http://www.by-the-sea.com
And if all else fails look for it in John Kohnen's Nautical Links List or the Sailing Index
Any further suggestions for this list can be sent to me by e-mail
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