{"id":462,"date":"2016-02-26T19:29:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-02-24T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:58:11","slug":"aero-rig-another-forespar-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/aero-rig-another-forespar-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Aero Rig – Another Forespar Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Foresman, Forespar’s founder, never stopped innovating and testing sailing concepts – a company premise that continues today, 50 years later.\u00a0 From the original telescoping whisker poles made in the garage to today’s carbon fiber poles, furling systems and the rest of a catalog of boating products from the modern plant, the family continues to experiment, produce and sell new products.<\/p>\n

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A classic example is Fore Sail, <\/em> the Foresman’s Catalina 400.\u00a0 Working with Catalina Yachts<\/a>, Forespar developed Fore Sail <\/em>as a test bed for a Forespar-built Aero Rig, with an eye toward a Catalina production model.\u00a0 While this ultimately proved impractical because of market conditions, an easy-to-sail (and single hand) 40-foot cruiser with a very different rig drew a lot of attention in the early 90’s.\u00a0 Shown here with Art Bandy, now the Forespar OEM Sales Manager, at the helm and strings tacking up the Newport Beach Lido Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tweet Bob Foresman, Forespar’s founder, never stopped innovating and testing sailing concepts – a company premise that continues today, 50 years later.\u00a0 From the original telescoping whisker poles made in the garage to today’s carbon fiber poles, furling systems and the rest of a catalog of boating products from the modern plant, the family continues… Read more: Aero Rig – Another Forespar Test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[89,52,62,21,88],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-content","category-our-team","tag-aero-rig","tag-forespar","tag-hoyt-boom","tag-sailboat","tag-sailboat-rigging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}