youtube rendering movie
A couple of days ago I wrote about the famouws Monitor of the Baker company.
15 years ago I researched the Monitor using the internet and was pleasently surprised by the information that was still available.
This I wrote about on my website wind-water.nl on the Monitor pages.
Today I put together some old renderings )from 1999and 2001 of both the original and the intended Monitor model in a youtube movie.
Although the Baker company had a US military contract for the Monitor it still was too expensive to build the intended dual wingsail version, with a more elaborate hydrofoil setup
Imagine what it would have been a wingsail hydrofoil in the 1950`s almost imaginable. The speeds they are said to have reached are now 35kn´s what would they have been with the wings...
If you wonder how height control is realized with ladder foils. Its relatively simple the decrease of submerged foil area with increased ride height is the main factor.
In Monitor things were made a little more subtle with the mechanical computer controlling pitch through the rearstay force and the roll through the stays, very clever stuff by mister Baker and particularly Niel Lien.
