[MHml] DynaRig, Mast-Aft, Bi-Plane sailing rigs

[Rob Denney]

G'day,

Jeez, Brian, here we go again.

If you had put the following at the beginning instead of the end, you could
have saved everyone a lot of reading

> The email I sent out on the Dynarig was meant to show how the Falcon's
Dynarig could be brought down in complexity, price, and weight. Certainly it
is still a 'square rigger', a very modern version at that, and will never
compete
with a free-standing unirig in expense nor weight aloft. But it has shown
its capabilities in performance, and on all 3 points of sail.

You could have added that not only is it vastly more expensive and many
times heavier than the unstayed biplane, it is also much less safe,
unreliable, hard to handle, with very high maintenance and will not perform
as well on any point of sail, including reaching. It will also be a lot more
drag at anchor and will be a lot slower under power.

Most of the rest of your post I debunked last time you advertised both these
rigs on this forum.     Anyone seriously considering either the dynarig or
the small main/big genoa rig should look at these posts.

Peter Nice: I designed and built W, the prototype bimaran.  It is a cat with
the rig in one hull,  not an ama less tri.  For what it is, it is an
interesting concept, which taken to it's logical conclusion, becomes a harry
proa.  'Nuff said.

Regards,

Rob
www.harryproa.com