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Published on Monday, 29 August 2022 08:43

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ARCHINAUTE 2019: Eleven years after the launch of the project, the prototype of the first Archinaute wind powered boat is under construction at the Brittany South shipyard in Belz. This is a culmination of years of effort for its designer, Charles-Henri Viel, who was looking to present it from June 29 to July 10 at the La Mer XXL show in Nantes in 2018. The boat is 11 meters long, 6 wide and weighs 10 tonnes, built of aluminum. A wind turbine 6 m in diameter will be placed on the boat.

Unthinkable ten years ago, the project finally came to fruition. The transition from idea to design did not happen overnight. In 2014, the first investigations were carried out on a model. Two years later, Charles-Henri Viel participated in a contest: clim action. The principle of which was to propose projects in harmony with the environment.

 

 

PETER WORSLEY

 

 

 

Peter is an amateur yacht designer and an incredibly inventive and productive experimenter. All of his designs work to some degree - which, as he has refined his ideas, they are getting better. We love the rotary sail boats. Not quite so keen on the wing-sail designs, which were pioneered by Walker Wingsail Systems many years ago, but never really took off :)  The idea seems to be a development of a fan ship proposal exhibited in 1935 at a patentees exhibition in London, although, we know that Peter developed his ideas independently from scratch. Nevertheless, there is a remarkable similarity, which supports the old adage that "great minds think alike." See Peter's nicely converted catamaran "Twice Lucky" below and compare that to Brad Blackford's Hobie catamaran further down.