... Two boats sailing in close proximity may inevitably compare their boat speeds, perhaps even "race" each other. Over the last few centuries there have been numerous handicap systems designed to equalize the competitive chances of racing sailboats. Corollary to handicapping is another arcane art...

... calculation high-speed sailing kanazawa institute jib variation sailing resistance wind speed wetted area solidfromphoto coefficient rudder twa center board thrust spinnaker heel angle olympic games trapeze hull wind angle In order to sail 470 faster, authors consider...

... on average faster may not necessarily mean winning the majority of races. This papers present the development of software to compute a sailing strategy for a match race that can defeat an opponent who is following a fixed strategy that minimizes the expected time of completion of the race. The proposed...

... THE 21st CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2013 Development of the Volvo Ocean 65 Britton Ward, Farr Yacht Design Ltd., Annapolis, MD, USA Chris Cochran, Farr Yacht Design Ltd., Annapolis, MD, USA ABSTRACT NOTATION For the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, the organizing VO65...

... THE 21st CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2013 A Refinement of the Methods Used to Determine the Balance of a Sailing Vessel during the Design Phase, with Application to Sail Design and Subsequent Sail Selection and Sailing Operations Capt. Iver Franzen, Iver C...

... Virtual Sailing (VS) has been producing the world’s only ride-on sailing simulator for 10 years. Based on fundamental principles of sailing dynamics the underlying simulation has shown great robustness permitting significant R&D to be performed and retrofitted to existing simulators...

... THE 19th CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2009 Alpha and Rocker - Two Design Approaches that led to the Successful Challenge for the 2007 International C-Class Catamaran Championship Steve Killing, Steve Killing Yacht Design, Midland, Ontario, Canada Figure 1 - The C...

... THE 16th CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, MARCH 2003 The Rise of the Hydrofoil and the Displacement of the Hull: The Design, Construction and Performance Measurement of a 6m Flying Catamaran Edward Chapman, South Brent, Devon, UK. George Chapman, South Brent, Devon, UK...

... US Sailing, the Offshore Racing Council (ORC), the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel (GLMWT), Quantum Sail Design Group (QSDG), the Wolfson Unit and North Sails have collaborated on a series of wind tunnel test programs to investigate the performance of both upwind and offwind sails. These programs...

.... This yacht was built as an amateur project and holds the world record for speed in a land yacht at 116.7 mph. It appears that it is, currently, the fastest sailing yacht on any surface. Finally, the paper provides perspective on a variety of aspects of speed sailing on dirt and ice. high speed mph...

... The primary purpose of this offwind sail investigation was to better understand the relative performance of symmetric spinnakers flown from conventional poles and asymmetric spinnakers flown from conventional poles or sprits, i.e. poles restricted to the centerline. The specific goal...

... The primary purposes of this offwind sail investigation were to better understand offwind sail performance and to improve the ability to predict the performance of specific offwind sail shapes over a broad range of operating conditions. The study was designed to allow sail designers to answer...

... yacht vpp mechanism coefficient formulation resistance sail type sailing force model coefficient modification drag coefficient The paper describes the improvements made to the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic force models of the Offshore Racing Council (ORC) International Measurement...

... an eleven year stay in Australia. The Cogito project was three years in length and encompassed the design/construction phase, initial sailing and tuning at her home the Bristol Yacht Club in Bristol, Rhode Island, and the final training and competition at the race venue, McCrae Yacht Club on Port Philip...

... and sail a boat of one's own could be a consuming project that would set a pattern for life. In 1990 a program began to build on this premise: to reach out to the troubled youth of the inner cities, teach useable skills, self confidence, and pride of accomplishment by teaching youths to build small wooden...

...- THE TENTH CHESAPEAKE SAILING YACHT SYMPOSIUM SAILBOAT PERFORMANCE IN A CURRENT James P. Nolan, Nolan Associates, Bethesda, MO ABSTRACT routines developed by the author as a Tidal and other surface currents part of a continuing study of the "op­ timum path i probiem in sailing race may have...

... The velocity prediction program, VPP, appeared on the yachting scene about ten years ago and it now dominates design and sailing. Originally implemented as a handicapping tool under the Measurement Handicap System, now accepted internationally as IMS, it has seen widespread acceptance for many...

... naval architect instrumentation new revolution sailing new york tow testing suite 1369 america microcomputer world trade center boat One of the new single chip microcomputers and a new single chip A-D converter have been used to help a small boat owner trim the sails and steer...

... TECHNICAL NOTE AERODYNAMICS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE WING SAILS By J. Otto Scherer* Presented at the SNAME CBYRA NASS Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium 19 January 1974 *Visitor, Head, Ship Propulsion and Research Division, HYDRONAUTICS, Incorporated, Laurel, Maryland. -i- NOTATION A Aspect ratio...