| Since attending
Weymouth Speed Week in 1996 Jon Howes
has designed and developed one of the most radical sailing machines ever. It has a design
speed greatly in excess of all current records. After extensive testing with models Jon has now commenced
construction of the full size machine.
January 2002 - Regrettably
due to the possibility of Jon having to take legal action concerning a
world wide patent application and plagiarism the details of his design
available on this web site have been limited at this
time.
The first picture below is of the model
sailing at Hove Lagoon during June 1998. The other two pictures of the
model were taken when the model was first sufficiently developed that
it achieved high speed. There were many high speed runs which occurred
in the high winds experienced between January and March 1998. Details of the
design and its development were first presented in public by Jon Howes
at the Amateur Yacht Research Society meeting during Weymouth Speed
Week in October 1998. The presentation was included in the AYRS Digest
of that month. Further details of the design and its
development have been posted to this web site following
the launch of the Speed Sailing web site in February 1999.
These events precede
PCT international patent application WO 00/26083 dated 11 May 2000
with a stated priority date of 2 November 1998.
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