Signature Anders Ansar
Things from my desk. Sailing boats I have raced and sailed. My cars. My humble abode. Water colored drawings.
My YouTube channel 300 000 visits, 100+ videos: youtube.com/c/andersansar
100 MPH?, 160 km/h? My design High Speed Wing Skate Sail. Sailor in wing. The only one in the world, as far as I know.
This is a small area wing sail and should therefore be able to reach higher speeds before you are over powered.
With this wing over powering should come around 100 mph, 160 km/h.
Wing still in modification and testing phase - and right high speed conditions are very rare - about once a year.
75 MPH, 120 km/h. My design Course Racing Wing Skate Sail
I think I was first to show that skate sailing in wings is much faster that its predecessor with the sailor standing to leeward of a fabric sail. Top speed is some 75 MPH, 120 km/h. That is 30% faster than its predecessor.
Photo: The wing hangs on the shoulders and I wear ice skates.
It sails 4 times faster than the wind.
Some 200 have been built world wide. I have designed, built and raced some twenty of these wings.
Small boat sailing to Iceland on the cold northern Atlantic Ocean
Sailed with a friend, Lennart Berglund, in his 28 ft boat. A very rewarding three months trip: From Stockholm, Kiel Canal, west of England, Scotland, Faeroe Islands, Iceland, airplane to Greenland Kulusuk, Shetland Islands, Norway, Goeta Canal, Stockholm.
At night 39 F, 4 C, approaching Iceland. On the west coast of England we got a Gale Warning. We made it to Liverpool before the storm hit....
Boats that I have sailed and raced
A C-class sailing canoe (local Swedish design). An Elvström Trapetz two man dinghy. A Star Boat. Two Tornado Catamarans, once an Olympic class. Two Laser dinghies.When I sold my first Tactical Compass, Ansar 1, to sailors I was engaged as a tactician on a 6 m R-yacht and a very successful Scampi Half Ton Class, Lady Luck.
Photo. Camping trip in a Laser Dinghy This was on large Lake Saimaa in Finland for half a month with a friend in his dinghy.
Freelance photography and writing - Free in Time and Space! I have had published, (and got payed for), 185 articles in 20 countries, 75 of which deals with my design the Ice Wing Skate Sail.
Total number of readers in the order of 30 millons.
My E-Book: 100 steps to Ultra Light Luggage and Less Heat Stress
My Tactical Compasses for Sail Racing.
Wind shifts At-A-GlanceAnimation: The position of the central pointer gives you the wind shift information At-A-Glance! Wind is here from the right. "It helped me to gain at least three or four places in each major regatta", writes Ed Baird, about the Ansar 1 compass.
Other famous buyers are Iain Murray, Australia, Peter Norlin, Sweden.
The view from my humble abode in central Stockholm, Sweden. Beyond the water, a bay, lies the Karlberg Palace. The bay is connected to the seven oceans. There is a public wooden jetty just outside my abode so you can arrive by boat for a visit.
The construction of the palace started 1634. (I just saw that the construction of Taj Mahal (which I have visited some three times) started 1632.)
Me in my first car, a MGA 1959.
Bought second hand around 1962, when I was 20 years old. Nice British job. Top speed 93 mph, 150 km/ h. 72 hp.
It came with a Hard Top - came handy in the then cold and snowy winter conditions in Stockholm, Sweden.
I was lucky - it was bought with an inheritance from an aunt. Thank you very much Auntie! She sadly passed away at a relatively young age. Video of nicely restored MGA. Full car spec here.
My second car, so far the last, was the very powerful British Jaguar Mk II, 3.4 litre, 1962. 120 mph, 200 km/h, with a 210 hp engine. Mine was black and did not have wire wheels.
"The 3.8 litre Mk II had outstanding performance and
was for a long time the fastest production saloon car in the world."
At the back of the front seats were little fold down tables - appreciated by my friends when they had a drink. A girlfriend wasn't apparently at all impressed by the car - she thought it was a 1950 Volvo Taxi, 90 hp. Video of driving Jaguar Mk II at full speed. My Jaguar car full spec here.
My water colored drawing of my Star Class sailboat.
Illustrating an article, in the Swedish boating magazine Båtnytt (for which I wrote many articles illustrated with my photos). I owned a Star Class sailboat with this color scheme. Lovely boat. Apart from competition sailing I used it also for vacation cruising,
My water colored drawing, River Nile Felucca.
Illustrating an article, in the Swedish boating magazine Båtnytt (for which I wrote many articles illustrated with my photos), together with the Star Class sail boat about my sail on the River Nile, Egypt. Both are light wind boats with plenty of sail area.
My water colored drawing, Bamboo tourist accomodation hut.
Viewed from my hut, on Lamai Beach, island Koh Samui, Thailand, which I have visited many times. Cirka 1990. Later huts were changed for more solid ones.
My water colored drawing, Young coconut tree.
Maybe drawn in Indonesia.
I sent copies of the drawing to several friends - with the warning: Don't make the same mistake as some of Gauguin's friends - throw it away - or your decendants may miss a fortune. :)
A memorable win in my first land yacht sail regatta. In US.
I was taking photos at a land yacht regatta in western USA. Famous land sailor Nord Embroden was kind to take me there.
A race official said I could take part in the race with his Freedom Yacht.
This was my first land yacht race. Wind was very light at the start.
I sailed with full concentration for several minutes before checking the competitors. When I looked they were well behind. Probably because they were very heavy guys.
We rounded a mark and sailed down wind. From my ice sailing experience I know how to do this. You bear of very gradually to let the speed increase. If you make the 90 degree turn sharp you stop!
The wind was picking up. I turned the leeward mark cautiously - it was my first turn at speed in a land yacht.
The wind was getting strong and the other guys now had a speed advantage because of their weight. They were closing in very fast.
Just before the finish line I tacked upon the nearest competitor throwing the turbulent wind from my sail onto his - slowing him down enough for me to finish first. I also won the two remaining races.
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