... wind tests comprise five apparent wind angles, seven sheet angles, three kicker trims and three heel angles. For the strong wind case the dinghy is assumed sailing upright and only dead downwind, but with four sheet angles and three kicker trims. The scale is 1/7, which gives a reasonable blockage...

... form is a high-speed hard-chine sailing dinghy, typical of modern trends in skiff design, and is broadly similar to some high performance yacht hulls. The 4.55 m hull was tested at full scale in a moderate size towing tank, at 1:2.5 scale in the same tank, and at full-scale by towing on open water...

... boosted. Foils have been fitted to a large number of yachts with great success, ranging from dinghies to ocean racers. An interesting question is whether one of the slowest racing boats in the world, the Optimist dinghy, can foil, and if so, at what minimum wind speed. The present paper presents...

...Adam Persson; Lars Larsson; Matz Brown; Christian Finnsgard As a follow up to the Olympic Games, commercially available Finn dinghy rudders were tested to determine their hydrodynamic performance. Seven rudders were tested, out of the nine different rudder models that were measured for competition...

... by a sailor's motions have typically been neglected in velocity prediction programs (VPPs). When applied to the assessment of sailing dinghy performance, the position and motions of the crew are significant but impractical to measure mechanically. A sailing-specific pose capture method to determine the sailor...