Show back to fo sail although within the past hundred years a great many im improvements prove ments have been made in the rig of tailing sailing vessels there is still considerable leeway to be made up before they can be considered perfect in their kind but an inventor mr J M hammond is is experimenting to prove that sailing vessels can be developed to steamship efficiency I 1 with the aid of tiny models fitted with sails and placed in wind tunnels and the scrutiny of hundreds of motion picture photographs to he is detecting age old errors all successful design are tested on mr hammonds foot foot schooner and some of the improvements are so effective that he hopes soon to make high speed sailing vessels a commercial proposition tit bits london |