Sailing Craft Design Principles

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: Preceded or accompanied by NAVARCH 321. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Forces and moments acting on a sailing yacht. Speed polar diagrams. Two- and three-dimensional airfoil theory. Application to keel and rudder design. Yacht model testing. Delft Standard Series for prediction of hydrodynamic performance. Aerodynamics of yacht sails. Sail force coefficients. Velocity Prediction Program. Rigging design and analysis. Yacht racing rules.