Patent ID: 8893635
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
1. A canting lift creating sailboat sail rig assembly, comprising: a. a mast base circular track, said mast base circular track located approximately ⅔rds a distance from a stern of a sailing vessel or sailboat, said stern of a sailboat being the most rearward end of the sailboat, to a bow(s) of a sailboat, said bow(s) being the most forward end of a sailboat, and said mast base circular track runs from the stern to bow(s) center line of said sailboat outward and toward an outward edge(s) of a sailboat hull(s), where said outward edges of said sailboat hull(s) means toward the outer most edge of the outward most hull(s), where said hull(s) being the sailboat's flotation means and where said sailboat may have one, two or more said hulls, with an outward ends of the mast base circular track, said outward ends of the mast base circular track being the most outward ends of the circular track curving toward the bow(s) of the sailboat; and b. a mast, where said mast is a vertical structure extending upward from the sailboat's deck, said sailboat deck is a horizontal upper surface on or near the sailboat hull(s), and a lower end of the mast, or mast base, where said mast base is an attaching mechanism at the lower end of said mast that is coupled to the mast base circular track; and c. a mast rigid supports or struts, said mast struts are rigid supporting members, a lower end of the mast struts, where said lower end of the mast struts have attaching mechanisms which are attached to or near the outward edges of the sailboat hull(s) and attached sternward from the most sternward location of the mast base circular track; and d. an upper end(s) of the mast struts, where said upper ends of the mast struts have attaching mechanisms which are attached at an attaching point to the mast, where said upper ends of the mast struts attaching mechanism attaching point is at about ¼ e. the mast struts help hold the mast up vertically and support the mast weight, lateral, downward and upward pressure put on the mast; and f. the supporting mast struts allow the mast to move along the mast base circular track; and g. as the mast base is moved while sailing or the sailboat being stationary, outward from the stern to bow centerline of the sailboat coupled to and moving along the mast base circular track, the mast struts rotate downward toward the bow and an upper section of the mast, where said upper section of the mast is the section of the mast that is above the attaching point of the mast struts attachment to the mast, where said upper section of the mast tilts or cants aft ward and outward in the opposite direction the mast base moves along the mast base circular track; and a mainsail, were said mainsail is usually a sail attached on a mainsail's vertical edge to the mast, with or without a horizontal supporting member, a mainsail boom or a boom, where said boom or mainsail boom, being in or near a horizontal to the deck of the sailing vessel, may be attached to the mast; and j. a mainsheet, where said mainsheet is a line that is attached to the mainsail or the mainsail boom; and k. a pulling in or letting out, or trimming of the mainsheet, where said trimming of the mainsheet controls an angle of a longitudinal plane of the mainsail, where the longitudinal axis plane angle of the mainsail is relative to a stern to bow centerline vertical plane of the sailboat; and l. the combination of the mast, with attached mainsail, simultaneously tilting or canting aft ward and outward along the mast base circular track and the pulling in and letting out, or trimming the mainsail sheet, controls the forward thrust and lifting forces of the wind on the mainsail, and the degree of heeling of the sailboat.