[PCW] Hybrid powercats

[gram rupert]

Hi Malcolm,
I don't see "Revolution" on any of the sites shown at the bottom of  
your post.

Tx.
rupert.
On 18 Dec 2007, at 02:24, Malcolm Tennant wrote:

> I must say that I agree with Pat reischmann. What is wrong with the  
> normal
> catamaran as a motor sailer?
>
> However I might deviate slightly from that contention and fit a rig  
> to one of
> our CS power cat designs. The only real advantages of this would  
> occur if you
> wanted to go a bit faster  than the sail boat hull was capable of.
>
> If you are still determined to "boldly go where no man has gone  
> before" you
> could go where we went in 1992 and fit a wind turbine driving in  
> the water
> propellers [see web site- the "Revolution"]. However today I would  
> go and buy
> a reasonably substantial "off the shelf" wind turbine electric  
> generator and
> fit it to one of our CS hulled stock power cat designs. This would  
> drive a
> couple of electric motors in the hulls.
>
> Incidentally, despite what several physicists have to say on the  
> internet, the
> Revolution would proceed directly to windward.
>
> Regards,
>
> Malcolm Tennant.
>
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