Turner is determined to continue with the stadium sailing concept which sees the boats race close to the shore on tight circuits.
The Japanese IKAROS spacecraft, which was launched last month, is testing the basic solar-sail concept.
The CubeSail mission is a low-cost demonstration of the UltraSail solar sailing concept (Burton et al., 2005; Botter et al., 2006; Hargens-Rysanek, 2006; Pukniel, 2009), using two near-identical CubeSat satellites to deploy a 260 m-long, 20 m2 reflecting film.
They also jointly developed the Sail electric concept car last year, which was designed at PATAC.
Looking for ways to beat the size barrier, Mr. Coste and his design team, under the patronage of Prince Albert of Monaco and in partnership with the Monaco luxury group Ultra Luxum, have developed what they say will be a revolutionary sailing trimaran concept.
What a concept, sail nonstop on a carbon missile around the Big Blue Marble.
Paradoxically, these beautiful, newly built leisure boats, intended to revive the concept of sailing, mostly offer rather poor sailing performance.
They are a general concept in SAIL that provides the flexibility to group parameters without being bound by the semantics of the specific type of group.
The primary aim of the mission is to demonstrate the concept of solar sailing and end-of-life de-orbiting using the sail membrane as a drag-sail.
Dr. Forward applied this concept of heavenly sailing ships to a somewhat more practical purpose when he designed a satellite, called a statite, that could hover 200,000 miles above one of the poles, held in place by sails filled by solar winds.
The concept of small sailing frigates with a complementary set of oars (or "sweeps") was not new.
