I will be talking this coming weekend to a local CAD company about what they might be able do for us. So far, the project manager is very enthusiastic about our ideas. Of course, cost is of utmost importance.

Meanwhile, Mr. Kwong, I will contact you by email to discuss your offer.

About the video game thing. I'm not suggesting that we need a video game but rather a video game builder could insert the specs for a boat and its junk rig into an already developed game and run a scenario which would be recorded for rerun. Most of the work has already been done for another purpose.  See for example of a simulated bombing run for a WWI aircraft within the game, “Rise of Flight” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGOuFiPmUc
Amazingly realistic.
Imagine a boat sailing around a course alone, illustrating pointing, reaching and running. Perhaps reefing.
Food for thought. Until we talk with the people involved, we don’t know what input or costs are involved. They might give us a deal because it advertises their product.

My father flew an RE-8 in WWI. How is that, my father? He was 48 when I was born. I am 69 now.

I've rather jumped the gun by suggesting we co-opt you and you go ahead - obviously it all needs to be discussed in Committee.  However, if you're serious about this and know all the what, where and why of the technology, why don't you write me a little presentation giving an outline of the advantages that you see and how much it will all be likely to cost.  I can then circulate it around the committee and see what everybody thinks.

Just when I thought I'd made a clean get away.... Time to put my money where my mouth is, eh?

Okay, sign me up!

I would like to suggest that JRA consider investing some our resources in commissioning instructional drawings of the junk rig for posting to our files as well as online. I mean 3-D CAD drawings in an interactive format that viewers can manipulate. Rotate, disassemble, view in detail  etc. The software is commonplace now and it should not be difficult to find someone proficient to render drawings for us.
The drawings can be built up in layers so that individual systems can be seen, stand-alone. The sail, standing rigging, running rigging, battens; mast; flat cut sails; cambered sails (of different types). We can let imagination run on this. Lift illustrations from PJR and turn them into 3-D renderings. It could always be a work in progress, adding topics and illustrating developments.
Then there is animation. There are already sailing video games. A video game builder could show our rig under sail on different tacks, in full sail or reefed.

I think this would be a good use of resources because it would be such an improvement over the limited material we have now. They could go a long way to explaining our rig to a novice public in a form they can readily grasp.

This leads me to another topic, live video. I will post to a separate topic.