Noah Barker,
A New Concept in Sailing, 1969/2023
foam, fiberglass, epoxy, nylon, polyester, laminated pine, mahogany, stainless steel, fabricated by Jonas Buchholz and Gert Martin from designs by James R. Drake (developed in collaboration with Fred A. Payne, Jr., Vice President of Technical Operations, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Hoyle Schweitzer of Legal Billing Systems, Inc., Allen Parducci, Professor of Psychology, UCLA) presented in the paper WINDSURFING: A NEW CONCEPT IN SAILING, delivered at a conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and published by the RAND Corporation: Up to the point where steam propulsion became dominant, speed under sail had entirely practical consequences. However, in recent times where sails are used almost exclusively on pleasure craft, the need for speed under sail is entirely subjective. That is, the speed of a boat is judged to be high or low, not in entirely explicit economic or military terms but rather in the mind of the skipper. A new concept in sailing has been developed, more akin to surfing and skiing, in which boredom is completely eliminated.
458 cm x 427 cm