Neat concept and looks to be well executed but man is it ugly.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1998-Savannah-26-Used-Catamaran-Sailboat-Texas-/120929191694?pt=Sailboats&hash=item1c27f1070e
More infor here
http://www.2hulls.com/gallery/Model/Savannah26.html
Cheers
Al
That looks to be a folding catamaran with a large center pod supporting a rig called an Aerorig which is a rotating mast supporting a boom for both the main and jib.
Quite a combination of features from a folding trimaran and a kind of experimental rig used mostly on big monohulls. Wonder how it sailed or what it looked like on the water?
Look at the second link there are pics of it sailing
That is one seriously scary mess of a design. I wonder if two of these even exist?
guy in japan has an aerorig
on his farrier f24 folding tri
the huge size of the rig kind of kills the folding benefits
makes for a clean deck though...
I saw that and thought about bidding, I did some searching and read that it was the only one built. I also read in numerous places that the areo rig was about worthless and found several accounts of people throwing them in the trash. Evidently it worked on RC boats but not big ones.
Holly crap it sold for 10500!!