6-463: The DynaRig is a conceptualization of a square-rigged form of rigging , designed in the 1960s by the German engineer Wilhelm Prölß. While having the appearance of the rigging of a 19th-century clipper ship , it was not actually implemented on a sailing vessel until several decades after its design because of a lack of adequate construction materials. It was fitted to one of the world's largest yachts,
12-404: A large vessel across an open body of water. The modern controller for the entire ship's rig consists of a single panel operated by a single person. The masts are freestanding, the curved yards being attached rigidly to the masts. To adjust the angle of the sails, the entire mast rotates in place. When fully deployed, the sails on each mast have no gaps between them, creating a single panel to capture
18-520: The Maltese Falcon . When the original patent rights and residual technology were purchased from the German government by an American investor in 2001, it was renamed the Falcon rig . The DynaRig, along with the original, "DynaSchiff", is a trademarked name. The original concept by Prölß was for a combined rig and hull with extremely high efficiency of operation and the use of wind power to propel
24-629: The keel of the vessel and to the masts. These spars are called yards and their tips, outside the lifts, are called the yardarms . A ship mainly rigged so is called a square-rigger. In ' Jackspeak ' (Royal Navy slang) it also refers to the dress uniform of Junior Ratings. Single sail square rigs were used by the ancient Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Celts. Later
30-474: The 106 m vessel Black Pearl built by Dutch shipyard Oceanco in Alblasserdam and designed by Italian Nuvolari Lenard. Naval architecture and DynaRig design of Black Pearl was done by Dykstra Naval Architects. Square rig Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square , to
36-534: The wind. It is estimated to have twice the efficiency of a traditional square rig. The design for the rig of Maltese Falcon was formalised and tested by Dutch naval architects Dykstra Naval Architects, and engineered and built by Insensys Ltd. on the premises of Perini Navi in Istanbul. In 2016 a similar rig designed and engineered by the same team was built by Magma Structures in Portsmouth and fitted to
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