[PCW] Wind Turbine cat (was Hybrid powercats)

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Fletner Rotor ?  Cousteau used that on one of his vessels and that hull 
form was very hybrid cross between cat/tri and sea sled if I remember.

brian eiland wrote:

>How about a vertical axis wind turbine that would accept air flow from ANY
>direction without needing to align itself??
>Brian
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> Back in the mid 70's the USF had a conference on sail assisted
>commercial craft. Dick Newick, Myself and 200 others attended with a
>variety of papers, models and some full size working versions.
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>One craft from the University Engineering Students was a windmill on a
>cat, driving a prop. Would also go directly to weather.
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>Only thing wrong was it was stepped at the normal mast step (used a
>sailing cat) and that blade was close to the deck.
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>This was straight mechanical no electric motors or batteries.
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>There are lots of options on motorsailor /power multihulls out there
>besides the huge solar panels.
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>len
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>Malcolm Tennant wrote:
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>>I must say that I agree with Pat reischmann. What is wrong with the normal
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>>catamaran as a motor sailer?
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>>However I might deviate slightly from that contention and fit a rig to one
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>>our CS power cat designs. The only real advantages of this would occur if
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>>wanted to go a bit faster than the sail boat hull was capable of.
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>>If you are still determined to "boldly go where no man has gone before" you
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>>could go where we went in 1992 and fit a wind turbine driving in the water
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>>propellers [see web site- the "Revolution"]. However today I would go and
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>>a reasonably substantial "off the shelf" wind turbine electric generator and
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>>fit it to one of our CS hulled stock power cat designs. This would drive a
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>>couple of electric motors in the hulls.
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>>Incidentally, despite what several physicists have to say on the internet,
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>>Revolution would proceed directly to windward.
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>>Regards,
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>>Malcolm Tennant.
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>>MALCOLM TENNANT MULTIHULL DESIGN LTD
>>PO Box 60513, Titirangi.
>>Waitakere 0642
>>NEW ZEALAND
>>Ph: +64 9 817 1988
>>e-mail: malcolm at tennantdesign.co.nz
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