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Originally Posted by Martinini
I was giving an opinion on the Hoyt design, sorry haven't looked at yours.
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Perhaps the main difference between the Hoyt rig and a junk rig is that the junk rig has sheet parts running up the leach, to each batten. This distributes the stresses extremely well, and it makes it possible for me to induce camber in the battens using a hinge in each batten. The great thing about inducing camber in a sail with hinges is that mast bend doesn't affect the amount of camber. If you take a marconi main and put it on a bendy unstayed mast, it flattens as the wind picks up, but it may flatten more than you want it to. This was the main problem with the unstayed marconi rig, according to multihull designer Chris White.