¶ Geodesic Spinnaker (1)
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Geodesic Spinnaker:
"It’s very interesting the way boating and sailing has become so important today. It’s all so fundamental: dealing with those tensions involved in those lines and winches. Everything we think about is there, the pneumatics, the hydraulics… vectorial forces, everything is there. I think it’s going to result in at least one geodesic spinnaker. She’s going to be a real beauty… We’ll just bring those stresses back to the three corners; but once its out from those corners the distribution will be such that the worst you could ever do to spinnaker is to blow out one little triangle. It would be very easy to repair; there would be no rips or tears.
Jay Baldwin: “You could have panels that would be loaded with elastic so that if a certain load were exceeded the panels would open and bleed out the load and then shut again.”
RBF: “Sure. We could really do such a thing… when you put springs in them, when you trim, so they breathe out for a second instead of pulling… There really could be something like the coin purse or tobacco pouch, a twisting cylinder that would release. Just string would do it if you got into a”
