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April 17, 2012
Multiple Views
SailPack, the sail design program we use at Maine Sailing Partners, is an extraordinarily powerful design tool that allows us to look at sails and boats in a way that not many people can. For instance, there's this:
a Crowther 46 catamaran with a rotating wing mast with diamond shrouds. How do we design a jib that will sheet and trim properly and be sure that it won't interfere with the mast rotation? Using SailPack, we can bend the jib onto a virtual Crowther 46, check the rig, check the trim, and look at the whole thing like this:
Multiple views and very useful tools.
Posted by Rob at 04:42 PM in Sail Tech | Permalink
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