{"id":1398,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:07:16","slug":"sails-for-freestanding-rigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sails-for-freestanding-rigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sails for Freestanding Rigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Steve, a local sailmaker proposed an intriguing idea for improving sail efficiency on our Freedom cat ketch. He thought that a sleeve that would imitate the effect of the old 2-ply sails would be extremely effective. He would make it out of some light cloth and it would stretch back about 2 feet back thus eliminating the inefficiency created by our telephone pole-style mast. Do you think this might be an easy way to pick up some speed? TIA for any input. Regards, Dave <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Dave: Wraparound leading edges have been used at least since the 1960s (on multihulls). If you get all the issues worked out, it will yield a much better lift-to-drag ratio. However, my understanding is that they make raising and lowering the sail more difficult. For firsthand data on this try talking with Gary Hoyt and Newport R and D in Newport, Rhode Island. Gary developed the original Freedom concept and if anyone has a handle on this issue, he will. Good Luck. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, a local sailmaker proposed an intriguing idea for improving sail efficiency on our Freedom cat ketch. He thought that <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/sails-for-freestanding-rigs\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-sails-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36042,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/36042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}