I would definitely recommend that anyone here interested in the soft wingsails that have been the subject of numerous threads over the past couple years take advantage of this offer and give the free trial a chance. There is a long article posted there about the changes made in the rig and gives lots of details and photos, including some discussion of the problem of the ww side caving in and a solution to it.

 

I am definitely going to avail myself of the opportunity to ask direct questions of someone with thousands of miles sailing under a soft wingsail.

 

- Gardner

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:44 PM, david_tyler_sv_tystie <tystie34@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Hi all,
I've told Gardner and Micha that much as I would like to talk about wingsails, I'm not happy to do so on a Yahoo group forum.
I've set up a wingsail forum on the JRA website - www.junkrigassociation.org
I cannot give completely free access to a forum to a member of the public. I have had to set up a new membership level, and make it free, as an introductory offer, for a month. What you will need to do is to go to the "Join the JRA" page, and choose "wingsail forum member". Please ignore those questions obviously meant for we junkies, but fill in as much of the rest as you wish.
Once you have registered, you will find the page right at the bottom of the menu. All JRA members can also see it, but you will not be able to see the JRA members pages.
At the end of a month, I will transfer this forum inside the JRA members area, and it will no longer be visible to a "wingsail forum member" - you will have to follow it in there by paying your sub as a JRA member!

By the way, the term "Swing-wing" is usually reserved for the commercial version produced by Sunbird Marine a while back. I think the name "soft wingsail"is the correct generic term.
David.