Rotating AeroRig

Carbospars went out of busines in +/- 2004, insensys in UK took over some specialists and finished running projects.
Our aerorig (biggest in the world) was to be built by carbospars at that time but we had to finish it ourselves in zaandam holland.
ship will be on sail amsterdam 2010

For the Aerorig-fans, visit http://www.ecolutions.nl/index_eng.php
The boat is currently under construction. According to the website, Lorima in France produces the rigging.

Hey,

I saw the boat of my future at the Southampton Boat Show, around 1993... it was Japanese and was a slim catamaran with an aerorig...

I guess the boat was about 17' long and, as I say pretty slim on the beam. The name was "The Magic Roundabout" but I couldn't tell you the manufacturer or model

I seem to remember it was pretty reasonably-priced. But I was ten.

Now I want it and can't find anything like it! Typical.

Don´t know about this thread about the Rotating Aerorig, I saw the de Dwinger, near my town Altea (Spain) and post a video (http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/g.../19249-sailing-yacht-de-dwinger-new-post.html) about this special design and concept, now I know more, thanks for this interesting thread.

Yes, it was a great little 22ft Hirondelle. I delivered it to the owner on the Helford River. sailed really well.

I have sailed quite a few AeroRig boats and found the concept great for easy cruising short handed. Performance upwind matches any reasonable conventional sloop rig, reaching and downwind sailing is the best with no need for the hassle of additional sails and the balance in the rig makes gybing much safer.

The free-standing concept really comes into it's own on very large yachts. As mentioned earlier in the thread the MD of Carbospars went on to build the free standing Dynarigs in Turkey for the 88m Maltese Falcon that have now covered over 130,000 miles and can be tacked and gybed single-handed without touching a sheet.