On another forum I had posted some discussions of sailing aerodynamics, and this in particular about Maltese Falcon's rig.
Dyna Rig update Quote:
Originally Posted by brian eiland
Here is another affirmation of the slot effect....look at this new DynaRig proposed for the 285' Maltese Falcon:
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Note the sheeting angles for the three sails, and particularly that of the very forward sail. Now why is this?....look at the explantions of the slot effect.
And which sail do you think is providing the greatest drive forward, and which sail is providing the greatest leeway??
Interestingly, they are not trying to account for the wind gradient (twist) with this new design even though it is an extremely tall rig.
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I had previously posted this back on thread #47. When I went to look at the referenced website it was no longer there. Meantime I did run across this CFD analsyis of Maltese's rig:
http://syr.stanford.edu/HISWA_Tyler_2002.pdf Have a look at the illustrations toward the end of the paper dealing with optimizing the sheeting angles for the 3 sails