{"id":42756,"date":"2024-07-09T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=42756"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:30:24","slug":"gori-propellors-still-performing-after-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2024\/07\/gori-propellors-still-performing-after-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Gori Propellors Still Performing After 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Danish company Gori, which makes Gori Propellors, approaches its 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, it\u2019s worth taking a few moments to reflect on just how much the invention of the two-bladed folding prop changed sailing and racing auxiliary-powered sailboats.<\/p>\n<p>The original design, which won a Danish industrial design award in 1976, is still in production today. In tests run by several European magazines, the prop, alongside its three-bladed sibling, still creates very low drag. \u00a0Surprisingly, the two-blade props being manufactured today are exactly the same as that design-winning original.<\/p>\n<p>The development of a three-blade version for boats with larger engines created a second significant innovation in folding prop technology: overdrive. The prop can open in two configurations, standard pitch or a steeper pitch that provides extra torque.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used a three-bladed Gori on my 45-foot sloop and found the overdrive capability to be useful in flat-water motoring, cutting fuel consumption by about 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Seahorse magazine recently published a full retrospective on gori Propellors.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahorsemagazine.com\/article\/july-2024\/hard-to-beat-the-original\"> You can read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Danish company Gori, which makes Gori Propellors, approaches its 50th anniversary, it\u2019s worth taking a few moments to reflect on just how much the invention of the two-bladed folding prop changed sailing and racing auxiliary-powered sailboats. The original design, which won a Danish industrial design award in 1976, is still in production today. In tests run by several European magazines, the prop, alongside its three-bladed sibling, still creates very low drag. \u00a0Surprisingly, the two-blade props being manufactured today are exactly the same as that design-winning original. The development of a three-blade version for boats with larger engines created a second significant innovation in folding prop technology: overdrive. The prop can open in two configurations, standard pitch or a steeper pitch that provides extra torque. I\u2019ve used a three-bladed Gori on my 45-foot sloop and found the overdrive capability to be useful in flat-water motoring, cutting fuel consumption by about 20%. Seahorse magazine recently published a full retrospective on gori Propellors. You can read the full story here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42767,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions\/42767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}