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I wanted to make the world’s fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it’s not a yawl anymore! It’s a real ketch-22.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3193/
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I can’t quite identify the point at which this turns from real to parody
The fastest sailboat is kind of the offset rig:
I bet it’s even faster if you reduce the weight by combining it with the deckhand obliterator!
Chaos rig? Sounds heretical
Bunk beds! There’s so much room for activities!
kite rig
There actually exist some boats that use kites exclusively for wind propulsion. This is used to save fuel, and most of the propulsion comes from motors. The kite is controlled by a computer.
That example might also count as a mastless rig from the comic.
Some people have also added kite-style sails to traditional sailboats, but I don’t know much about this.
Kites are more complicated than spinnakers which are already “fishing junk out of the water with extra steps” complicated. It is promising for solar electric boats, both as backup power, and voyage power boost, but even if they are promised as autopiloted flight, there needs to be a lot of experience in how to use them and when to bring them down ahead of weather, and lulls are big problems. There are commercial ship models, but I’m unaware of success stories with customer satisfaction.
Here’s one such kite on a catamaran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKs_yZFRiKI
What do you call an 12 foot long 2x12 stabbed with a stripper pole and an electric blanket?
What about the null rig where you have zero masts and sails?
Then its a displacement hull power boat.
Aren’t all of these just mimic octopus?
what’s your passive perception
Vertical catamaran is genius
