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Re: Skin-on-Frame: How about canoe sailing . . . .
By:Yostwerks
Date: 9/29/2011, 10:08 am

: Who's the designer?

Mladen Milidragovic from Vancouver, BC, Canada.

http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/5868092.html - Patent info and drawings

http://www.wingsails.com/index.htm - Mladen's original wingsail website is much changed,
but still includes pictures of his soft ( inflatable bladder ) shape shifting wingsail and a kayak sailing video.

I have 2 dacron wingsails (26sq ft each) based on his design and made with his permission.

The bladders are inflatable pool noodles as I recall. I made 2 take apart aluminum masts for a guy in Cleveland
to use on his two masted ACA racing canoe, and he made me the wingsails. I lost interest before completing my
folding sailing kayak with amas, and never tried the wingsails.

My interest is once again peaked. Since I already have the wingsails, I'm going to give this conceot a try on my new woodstrip Sea Bee.
That's assuming I can find the box where I packed away the sails several years ago :)

Tom

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Skin-on-Frame: How about canoe sailing . . . . *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 9/27/2011, 10:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/28/2011, 1:53 am
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Yostwerks -- 9/28/2011, 8:59 am
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Stephen Troy -- 9/28/2011, 11:06 am
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Yostwerks -- 9/29/2011, 10:08 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 3:44 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/28/2011, 7:21 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 9/28/2011, 8:13 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 2:03 am
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Dave Gentry -- 9/29/2011, 8:35 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 3:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 3:48 pm