On 2007-12-04 08:12:45 -0500, Gogarty said:

But now that I have your attention: the discussion at the time was
about the increasngly four-sided shape of the latest America's Cup
sails and how it was possible to keep the top of the sail in line with
the bottom. I opined then that it looks like we are going back to the
square sail.

Oh, gawd, that's so *not* a square sail shape! More like an airplane
wing on end -- which they pretty much are.

There's about no laminar flow on a square sail.

Then, lo and behold! up pops Maltese Falcon, which is a square rigged
ship, i.e., three masts with square sails on all three. A very
interesting rig, but very retro and also very fast.

Funny, reminds me more of a junk rig.

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Jere Lull
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