David Tyler est quelque part entre la Nouvelle Zélande et Tubuai aux Australes, il ne devrait pas tarder à donner les résultats de sa nouvelle voile en navigation hauturière ...
Ses premières conclusions en nav cotière :
" Yes, the new single sail can match the old wingsails - in the plural. Going to a schooner or ketch rig inevitably brings with it a less good performance than a single masted rig, given sails of the same type (if by performance you mean speed to windward). By using wingsails, I was able to get the same performance to windward with a ketch rig as I could get with a purer form of junk rig on a single mast. I wasn't able to design a ketch junk rig that would have that performance, with greater simplicity, so a single junk sail it had to be.
A single wingsail would be better than what I have now, but Tystie simply couldn't carry it. She hasn't enough stability and sail carrying power to use a single wingsail, which would be too heavy and too pressing for her. Anyway, such a sail would be entirely beyond me to design, build, rig and use. "
Étant donné qu'il est un peu dans le même genre de configuration que toi et ton Freedom ... cela peut peut être faire avancer ta réflexion ...
