Sailboat system for controlled gibing
AssigneeSimon Petersen Boats AB
InventorOle Simon Petersen
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Abstract
A system for controlling the jibe movements of a sailboat boom (4), which boom has an outer free end (5) connected to the boat (4) via a sheeting arrangement (6), and an inner end (7) fixed to the mast (3) via a pivot joint (8). A hydraulic actuator (13) is connected with the inner boom end (7) at the pivot joint (8) via a vertically extending axle (9). The actuator can be controlled to swing the boom over the centerline of the boat during a jibing maneuver, as well as can be adjusted to perform a momentum acting against the swinging of the boom eliminating violent, uncontrolled jibing maneuvers.
Claims11
A system for controlling the jibe movements of a sailboat boom, which boom has an outer free end connected to the boat via a sheeting arrangement, and an inner end fixed to the mast via a pivot joint, comprising a hydraulic actuator connected with the inner boom end at the pivot joint, said hydraulic actuator transferring a passive momentum (M) to the inner boom end acting against boom movements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.