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US 2022/0153389 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for reducing a heeling moment of a sailing vessel
AssigneeSubSeaSail LLC
InventorChris Todter
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Abstract
Various embodiments of a sailing vessel are disclosed configured to reduce a heeling moment acting on the sailing vessel as a wind acts on a sail of the sailing vessel. Generally, a mast of the sailing vessel is allowed to cant to leeward, thus reducing the heeling moment.
Claims17
A sailing vessel for sailing on water, the sailing vessel configured to reduce a heeling moment acting on the sailing vessel, comprising;
- a hull;
- a mast;
- a sail coupled to the mast;
- and
- means for allowing the mast to cant to port or to starboard in a leeward direction when a wind acts on the sail.
2 more elements
A method for reducing a heeling moment acting on a sailing vessel, comprising:
- automatically allowing a mast of the sailing vessel to cant in a leeward direction when a wind acts on a sail coupled to the mast, thus maintaining the sailing vessel at an angle with respect to an imaginary vertical axis of less than a maximum heeling angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.