Rotating AeroRig

Are you considering puchasing a Kanter sailboat by chance?

as far as the original makers of the aerorig i do not know, i believe that seatek in Willington,CA is able to make a rig of a similar design though

I saw a small boat with what must have been an early Aerorig at the beach on Tybee Island--maybe 20-25 years ago. It was probably about 10 feet long, 3 feet wide, and was being sailed by a lone sailor sitting low along the centerline. He appeared to be controlling the rudder with foot pedals.

The rig certainly seemed to make life easy for the sailor but I was not impressed with this early version--it appeared too small for the boat but also flimsy.

Could this have been the inventor that I saw? I've tried to learn the history of the rig but have not found anything going that far back.

By the way, Carbospars had some serious problems with at least one of their high-profile Aerorig equipped yachts. I stumbled across the story on a site called Sailing Anarchy or something like that. I suspect there was some serious bad publicity surrounding failure(s) of their rigs that probably put them under. The boat I read about was designed for the Aerorig but Carbospars made a highly-flawed rig that weighed twice what it should have. The owner said the boat would heel 15 degrees tied to the dock in 15 knots of wind.

Aerorig-fans should be happy to see the concept is alive and well. If you go to the site of Gerard Dijkstra N.A. (http://www.gdnp.nl/) and click on "current projects", you'll see a 47 m Aerorig sailing yacht.
According to the site, it's under construction at Royal Huisman at the moment...

47m Aerorig Yacht

Don't see her listed any longer??

BTW, a principle with the Aerorig company was a primary principle with the Maltese Falcon project as well

You're right Brian.

It seems they remodelled the site and the aerorig project is not there anymore. Maybe the project stranded on the drawingboard...

Twin, Double, or Ketch Type Aerorig

Recently was sent this photo of a 'twin aerorig' or 'ketch aerorig' by a gentleman interested in the Dynarig.

..."a yacht built and sailed in Brazil"

Paratii 2

Hi Brian,

The yachts name is Paratii 2.
It belongs to the famous brazilian sailor Amir Klink.
Its a 90 footer and was design with high latitudes in mind. She can be single sailed.
Although the picture angle does not show it well, she is a schooner, not a ketch (spars are the same size)

This is a nice AeroRig yacht I have seen when she was new. On this page are links to other such yachts and info as well; http://www.yachtmonalisa.com/

I know I'm late to the party with my comments, but here goes:

The brokerage company that I was with at the time did about half sail, half power.
They had a very nice sloop, 46 or 47 LOA, with an Aero Rig.

I, with some other brokers, were invited to go for a sail.
I thought it was the bee's knees when we did a jibe and the sails gently came around--as opposed to my usual experience (in racing) of all that laundry come hurtling across the decks.
Plus, you handled the sails with one string! Neat!

I learned a lot about sailors from this boat: they are very conservative, and virtually nobody wanted to buy that poor owner's boat for a very long time.
Just too 'different', I suppose.

Experience with Aerorig

To all members of this thread,
I have completed a Rebell 31 with an Aerorig in 1996 and since then I`m still convinced that I bought the right rig. I sailed about 6000sm and had no troubles whatshowever. In every lock and harbour the fellow sailsman/woman looks very interested but you see by their expressions too that this is a bit too unusual fot the most.
I have worked for Carbospars on one occasion on the boatfair "Boot" in Duesseldorf, Germany as a translater for the German customers and to my oppinion they had a good idea and technology but bad marketing concepts.
Right now I have to sell my boat due to family reasons and let`s see what my experiences will be in doing this.
Best regards to all
Hans J. Paul
I can mail some pictures if someone is interested!

Why don't you post a few as well, just for reference

Hi Brian,
being new to this forum is this done by attaching files and how large in bytes can I attach?
Best regards
Hans

Hello Crewagency,
I`m sailing a Rebell 31 here in Germany.
If you are still interested in infomation you can contact me on my e-mail account.
Best regards
Hans

Hans,

Images need to be less than 640 pixels in width. Bytes will vary based on image math. Best to use a photo editing program to reduce images to dimension.

Hi Brian,
I tried to attach some pictures. Hope it worked
Anyone interested in direct contact please use my e-mail account
Best regards
Hans

Super-aerorig

hi
I saw this boat in NorthWest ofSpain at the city A Coruña.It was her first trip from Huisman: Her mast 60 m. high. Enjoy this pics

Doesn't look like the standard finish on Huisman's deliveries
I wonder what's the story behind this boat...

Balanced rigs

There was a guy doing smaller rigs, I think his business was actually called balanced rigs.

It was back in 2003 that carbospars deceased, shame as the spar technology has only got getter since then. I always thought they were a nice set up for cruising short handed.