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oldie

VIC

356 posts

oldie

VIC, 356 posts

26 Feb 2011 11:03pm

patents.google.com/patent/US5862769"windsurf+sail"&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q="windsurf sail"&f=false
here we go.. does a 2 line address work?

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

Haircut

QLD, 6491 posts

26 Feb 2011 10:24pm

i haven't read the whole lot but if it's what i think it is, that's been around a while now and when i first saw it i thought what tha, this guys rigged hid adjustable outhaul all wrong, till i realised how it worked and then thought, that's quite clever

. i wonder how successful it is?

sboardcrazy

NSW

8333 posts

sboardcrazy

NSW, 8333 posts

28 Feb 2011 12:09pm

So hows it supposed to help?

DrJ

ACT

481 posts

DrJ

ACT, 481 posts

28 Feb 2011 6:40pm

The patent was filed in 1997 ... It's 14 years old, I have never seen one for sale or in use, so I suggest it neither works well or is marketable. The patentee is unlikely to have retired on the profit... Infact probably still owes his patent attorney a fair bit of cash.

oldie

VIC

356 posts

oldie

VIC, 356 posts

3 Mar 2011 10:36am

sboardcrazy said...

So hows it supposed to help?

Probably useful for a beginner frozen on the boom, with an unstable 1990s sail?
I found that I could plane faster across a strong current by offsetting the mast base, but that was before I got into second gear. Now it is inconsequential...
But I thought at the time "Maybe I could patent this. After all. nobody is allowed to make and sell a flexible uphaul rope "

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