Planesail Credits
We would like to give a big thank you to several individuals and organisations, without whom Planesail would not have had a rebuild, or the design for Wingsail 2.
Firstly to the man who started it all, John Walker of Walker Wingsails.
Twin Genoa Rig
- Gabriel H. Elkaim Founder of the Autonomous Systems Lab, University of California, for his extensive support helping us to adapt his seminal Atlantis Wingsail design to our Twin Genoa Rig requirements.
- Ilan Gonen creator of the Omer Wingsail.
- Kjell Dahlberg for the Wedge Tail design.
- Kim Prentis for sharing his wealth of Wingsail boat construction experience.
- Don Tugcu, owner of Sea Change, Zefyr 01, for his Wingsail repair and maintenance input.
- Terry Harper, owner of Ocean Tern, Zefyr 02, for his Wingsail experience input.
- Arth Loos, for sharing his experience sailing around the world on Angel B, Zefyr 03.
James Wright, owner of Larinka
for his persistence and support in getting Larinka operational, and allowing his Zefyr wing to be documented.
- Robert Vincent, Skratch Ltd. For generating a complete set of Zefyr Wingsail drawings, and for much Wingsail design input.
- Vincent Grison.
- Alex Vrolijk.
- Paul Jennings of Projects by Design
Wingsail 2 Construction
- Darren Newton of
and Dazcat
- Nick Barlow of Designcraft
