Sailor (and small tri friend) David Villarroel shares the following photo with us. He found it on the Net featuring Randy Smyth’s trimaran SIZZOR with that new wing rig Jim Brown is so excited about.
Here is a link to the photo (click on the image to see the full pic).
And click on the following links to listen to Jim’s recent podcasts about this new rig …
Nautical Lore Capercast Special Edition: NEWS ON NEW WING RIG FROM RANDY SMYTH
Nautical Lore Capercast 34: RANDY’S BREAKFAST
dang…I have seen that photo and the one of him rigging to boat before the race, but neither photo shows much detail. Interesting that the mast step is a simple bolt at the bottom of the mast. I want to see pix of the top of the mast and how it can rotate 360 degrees without hitting any rigging
The stay/shrouds go to the mast head, and the sharp-profile of the head of the sail offers no obstruction to get around them as the sail rotates. This arrangement would only work with a carbon mast, at this scale. I am guessing the trailing-edge sail (the soft-sail attached the rigid leech) might not rotate around easily, but in the reefed condition the soft sail comes off (the only way this thing “reefs”) when the going gets tough, and then the rigid part can rotate freely.
Now that I look at that rig again, seems as though the soft-sail trailing edge component might get under the stays…