Patent ID: 8001916

Claim:
An articulating sail feeder for a yacht, the articulating sail feeder comprising: an articulating column with a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to a mast of the yacht, the articulating column being formed of a plurality of track members stacked one on top of the other in a columnar arrangement and in a manner enabling the column to articulate, resulting in the track members being hinge tracks, wherein each track member is shaped to receive a luff of a sail, and the articulating column enabling lateral and rotational movement of a sail of the yacht; a plurality of pins, each pin disposed between a respective pair of track members adjacent to each other in the columnar arrangement, for each said pair of track members, the respective pin limiting bending movement of one track member in the pair with respect to the other track member in the pair; and plural ball joints, each ball joint disposed between a respective one of said pairs of track members, the ball joints receiving a tensioning line passing through ball joints along the longitudinal axis of the articulating column.