... Optimisation has established itself as a necessary tool when designing competitive high-performance yachts. The inherently complex material characteristics of composite materials mean there must be careful consideration of the effects of laminate design to meet loading and efficiency demands...

... to the predictions from XFLR5. THE 24TH CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, JUNE 2022 Development of a Six Degree of Freedom Velocity Prediction Program for the foiling America s Cup Vessels Neil Patterson, University of Tasmania, Australian Maritime College, Australia Jonathan Binns...

...THE 24TH CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2021 CNC Enabled Wood/Metal Composite Construction of (Relatively) High Performance Sailing Yachts Christopher D. Barry, P.E. (CA, WA, MD); Small Craft T&R Committee SNAME The Royal Yacht Britannia (George Lennox Watson design...

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...THE 24TH CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, JUNE 2022 Practical Performance Prediction of Foil-Configured Monohull Yachts Clay Oliver, Yacht Research International Ltd., Annapolis, USA Etienne Gauvain, Wolfson Unit MTIA, Southampton, UK ABSTRACT Interest in foil-assisted...

... lake racer resistance sailing mode heel angle force module yacht boat speed speed polar hydrofoil coefficient configuration marine transportation wetted surface area hull vpp trim parameter vpp model The aim of the this paper is to develop an accurate and robust six degrees...

... frequency yacht sensor fusion compass compute outlier algorithm kalman filter robustness artificial intelligence covariance matrix application sensor faulty sensor fault detection innovation covariance update step matrix equation THE 24T H CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM...

...Application of System-based Modelling and Simplified-FSI to a Foiling Open 60 Monohull Boris Horel1, Ecole Centrale Nantes, LHEEA res. dept. (ECN and CNRS), France Mathieu Durand, SIRLI Innovations, LUNA ROSSA Challenge, France ABSTRACT The increasing number of foiling yachts in offshore...

...THE 23RD CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2019 6DOF behavior of an offshore racing trimaran in an unsteady environment Paul Kerdraon1, VPLP Design, Vannes, France, and Ecole Centrale Nantes, France Boris Horel, Ecole Centrale Nantes, LHEEA res. dept. (ECN and CNRS...

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...THE 22ND CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2016 Towards a ew Mathematical Model for Investigating Course Stability and Maneuvering Motions of Sailing Yachts Manolis Angelou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Kostas J. Spyrou, National Technical University...

...-scale free-surface flows as found e.g. in naval architecture. This holds especially for the flow around typical modern yacht hulls, often planing, sometimes with surface-piercing appendages. Particular challenges include, but are not limited to, breaking waves, sharpness of interface, numerical...

... This paper describes insights into keel and rigging loads obtained through a data acquisition system fitted on the fleet of Volvo 65 yachts during the 2014-2015 Volvo Ocean Race. In the first part keel fin stress spectra are derived from traces of canting keel ram pressures and keel angle...

...-domain dynamic velocity prediction program (DVPP). The results are demonstrated using a single handed Laser and demonstrate an acceptable level of accuracy. centreline body segment loading artificial intelligence yacht sailor machine learning capture system spenkuch turnock performance...

... Yacht races are won by good sailors racing fast boats. A good skipper takes decisions at key moments of the race based on the anticipated wind behavior and on his position on the racing area and with respect to the competitors. His aim is generally to complete the race before all his opponents...

... Star-class racing yacht with a crew of two. The data collection consisted of observations, interviews, and video recordings. The results were also verified with the crews to catch biases in the analysis process. A jibe, a specific but common maneuver was analyzed from the perspective of Common Ground...

...THE 21st CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2013 Least Squares Estimation of Sailing Yacht Dynamics from Full-Scale Sailing Data Katrina Legursky, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS ABSTRACT CK R Rudder roll coefficient Linear dynamic models are extremely useful in CN R...

... THE 21st CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2013 A wind tunnel study of the interaction between two sailing yachts P.J. Richards, D.J. Le Pelley, D. Jowett, J. Little, O. Detlefsen Yacht Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand ABSTRACT slightly left) and drop...

... For the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, the organizing authority made a dramatic shift in direction for the next two editions of the race opting to move to a smaller, less expensive yacht built to exceptionally strict one design standards. This paper outlines some of the motivations for this shift...

... The design of sailboat rigging influences the yacht’s performance through the change in vertical center of gravity, windage, and ability to control the shape of the rig. In the past, designers have attempted to minimize this drag through the use of streamlined shapes, because it is well known...