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Something Completely Different: MODX 70 with Inflatable Sails HAND IT TO THE FRENCH FOR THEIR RELENTless efforts to drag sailing and yacht design into the future. The latest inspiration comes from a company called Ocean Development in Lorient, which has partnered with the design firm VPLP and the inflatable sail, retractable mast inventors at Aeroforce Wing to create a sailing vessel that is truly unlike almost anything ever launched, the MODX 70.
Europe, so creating this new cruising catamaran on a similar platform, was not much of a stretch.
Next step was to get the team at Aeroforce to design a rig with a mast on each hull instead of along the cat’s centerline. This has proven to be an efficient way to arrange the sail plan on a cat and American designer Chris White has several of his Atlantic series cats sailing the world They started with a super-light carbon with similar rigs, albeit with fixed masts infused catamaran hull and deck for and more traditional fabric sails. which VPLP are renown in racing circles. They have designed plenty of MOD 70 The Aeroforce sails are inflatable and trimaran race boats that are popular in retractable. When furled, the NACA foil-shaped sails stow in their deck pods on top of each hull. The carbon masts retract or telescope onto the hulls. When
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