The North-West Passage by Sailboat

Alaska - Greenland

 
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Design, characteristics

This craft is a prototype. Half sailboat, half ice yacht, it was especially designed to face all the challenges brought on by this project :

  • The Hulls : insubmersible therefore full (Shape polysterene), resistant to shocks because they are covered with kevlar and light so reinforced with carbon.
  • The center board and the rudder, retractable, can be lifted manually in case of shocks
  • Habitability : Lightweight, in a polysterene kevlar sandwich, resistant, in carbon PVC foam.
  • Rigging : simple yet adequate, therefore a carbon wing mast was chosen.

 

Technical Characteristics

Dimensions :

  • 7,50 m X 5 m
  • Draught : 1 m ou 20 cm
  • Air space : 12,50 m

Weight :

  • Weight when empty : 500 kg
  • Weight when full : 1 tonne

Area of the sail :

55 m2 or 120 m2 (Large sail, Solent, Gennaker)

In ice sailboat mode :

  • Rippled bow to mount on the ice
  • Retractable rudder blades
  • 2 skis mounted underneath the floaters
  • 2 skates mounted under the rudder blades

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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