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Good descriptions of successful unstayed rigs on the author′s 52-foot performance cruiser and Bruce Schwab′s Open 60 round-the-world racer.
[Cruising World, March 2004]
Primer on unstayed rigs, particularly for day boats and beach cruisers. Includes a discussion of reefing and some tips on sailing a cat ketch.
[BandB Yacht Designs, Vandemere, NC, USA]
A designer tells why his boats, from 17 to 66 feet, have the unusual wishbone-and-unstayed-mast rig.
[Wylie Design Group, Canyon, CA, USA]
Account of a couple′s efforts and disappointments and eventual success at getting a good quality carbon spar.
[Bill & Barbara Southworth, Portsmouth, NH, USA]
Easily understood technical description of an AeroRig, with photos.
[John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs Ltd., Washington, West Sussex, UK]
Sponberg has designed over 60 different cat ketch or other free-standing rigs. His site contains lots of information on why free-standing masts and wing masts make sense, and how they are designed and built.
[Sponberg Yacht Design Inc., St. Augustine, FL, USA]
Makers of aerofoil carbon fiber masts for Balestron rigs.
[FreeWing Masts, Inverness, Scotland]
A yacht designer goes sailing with a friend Richard Glanville′s carbon fiber wing mast
[FreeWing Masts, Inverness, Scotland]
Custom builder of triaxial carbon spars, stayed, unstayed, or semistayed, including circular, oval, D-shaped, complex furling, and wing masts.
[Van Dusen Racing Boats, Concord, MA, USA]
A yacht designer thinks cruising boats over 35 feet should have a divided rig with unstayed masts. Here′s his rationale.
[Tanton Yachts, Newport, RI, USA]
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