Yacht Research Homepage

This is the homepage for an informal group of people interested in yacht research and its dissemination. Most of these people do this for their hobby, or at college, and many are working alone, isolated from similar enthusiasts.

This site will serve as a discussion and meeting place, where people with similar interests can give details of their own research and read about each others, and discuss them.

It is hoped that those members of the group with their own webspace will have a link here, and that those without will place their material here.

Membership is informal, and is open to anyone interested in any aspect of yacht research (note "research", not "racing"). Anyone who wishes to contribute relevant material is welcome to do so. Anyone who wishes to contribute relevant and constructive comments or written discussion to any of the articles on the site is welcome to submit them.

I hope that (in time) there will be a number of articles here, each followed by a written discussion. However, we are only just starting up. Anything could happen. YOU could make it happen.

If you think that the list looks a bit bare, then that means that there is SPACE FOR YOUR OWN ARTICLE, so please contribute one. If you would like to contribute material to this page then please contact Fiona Sinclair on e-mail to:fnsnclr@gmail.com

Yacht Research articles on this site

• Windrigger Project a proa development project, by Ian Smith, updated to April 2012

• Foil Power Craft and Systems tidal power generator by Ken Upton

• Video clips of experimental boats in action

• Trampofoil comes to Cambridge, with photos

• Index to AYRS publications, compiled by Fiona Sinclair, UPDATED to pub. 122

• AYRSLIDE an add-on go-faster system for catamarans, by Slade Penoyre

• AYRSRIGHT a righting system for multihulls, by Slade Penoyre (now with moving pictures)

• Photographs of experimental boats in action with some new photos

• An Illustrated History of Autogiro Boats by Fiona Sinclair

Links to Yacht Research on other sites

• Projects
• Downloadable software
• Online Books, etc
• Online Magazines and Periodicals
• Lists of Links
• Technical Services
• Bookshops with online reviews or stocklists
• Boat Plans
• Other sites

• Ansar, Anders: Homepages - Skate sailing in wings, Tactical compasses for racing sail boats, Picture library

• Baff's Home Page Building a Wharram Tiki 21

• Bblacksh: building Toad Hall, based on 1883 W. P. Stevens designed 18' cutter yawl

• Beattie, Andrew: Kite flying, including the new Chevron traction kite article and lots of links to other kiting sites

• Bell, John: Boatyard building log of Bolger Windsprint

• Beng's homebuild Boatbuilding projects

• Berger, Robert: building a Bolger Windsprint and 15' Cat Runabout

• Bigras, Tony: 48' cruising catamaran Osram VII being built now for planned cruise from Vancouver to Fiji in 1999

• Bolger, Phil: Common Sense Design's home page

• BOOTIFUL: 60' catamaran built on windsurfing principles, designed as Speed Record contender.

• Brown, Russell: proas KAURI and JZERO

• Brummer, Mikko: JavaScript Spreadsheet for sail power calculations

• Busenbarrick, David: the building of a 46.6' Crowther 150MKII catamaran, with photos at various stages

• Carlson, Gregory: has built several Bolger boats (Pirogue, Sneakeasy, Brick) using his own hull design program, with photos

• CH++- a project to develop a new single handed racing dinghy

• Culnane, Doug: Investigations into aspects of the design of an Int. Moth

• Culp, Dave: Speedsailing page, includes kite driven proas, photos and the texts of several conference papers and magazine articles

• Decavitator: the fastest human powered hydrofoil around, the full details

• Derby, Roger: building 34' dory

• Dierking, Gary: Te Wa Micronesian proa

• Dremsen:building the Gloucester Light Dory, an illustrated account

• Dunlop, Paul: Bernard Smith's Amazing Sailboats

• DynaYacht: canting ballast twin foil (CBTF) technology

• Eisenstadt, Mike: building 15' daysailer Titmouse

• ENSTA: record-breaking tri-foiler Techniques Avancees

• Failla, Marco: Open Cat project

• Fishwick, Simon: Has a 15' experimental proa

• Flapfoil: Proteus the Penguin Boat, flipper propelled.

• Foxxaero: the world's most radical boats designs

• Gary's solo righting device for catamarans

• George's Stitch & Glue Kayak Builder's Journal, Illustrated story of building a stitch and glue kayak, the author's first boatbuilding attempt

• Gennette, Allan Bruce: Building a 44' Bruce Roberts steel ketch

• GOALS: Global Online Adventure Learning Site

• Gonneau, Daniel: homebuilt Bolger Long Micro

• Goodey, Thomas: Has a photo of his 15 m catamaran, 'Dressed For Dinner', with details of its voyages

• Great Cardboard Boat Regatta: including many events in many places

• Griffin Family: Amateur Boatbuilding Page from Alaska

• Gutsche, Gunter: includes a gravity-powered canting ballast keel system

• Hellewell, Ken: Cruising in TOPAZ, with details of cruises and rebuilding

• Henry, Scott: junk-rigged catamaran, Dragon Wings

• Hepperle, Martin: Turbulators for drag reduction.

• Hobbs, Robert: DynaWing, an asymmetric wingsail project.

• Holtrop, John: boat designs, including a database of 800 monohulls.

• Hord, Dave: preparing to sail to Bahamas single-handed, from scratch.

• INNOVOILE: speed record contender

• IOLA: Inventor's Online Associates - details of many projects

• Jardine, Ray: Kayak Construction with Aerospace Composites for the Home Workshop

• Karschulin, Othmar: multihull projects (in German)

• Keiper, Dave: Sailing Hydrofoils, including Williwaw and Stormy Petrel

• Kiteski World homepage

• Kohnen, John: Six-Hour Canoe

• Kruschandl, Nelson ocean going solar powered catamaran

• Linderson, Torbjörn: Trinity Flyer, Swedish multihull champion

• Locker, Phil: Foils - an accumulation of odds and sods on building dinghy foils

• Magellan Challenge - around the world in a power boat in 2001. New participants still welcome

• Margail, Jean: Self lifting catamaran from France

• Martin, Andrew: Air flow around a crash helmet

• Maston, Rick: Outriggers for canoes

• Matthew: reproduction of John Cabot's ship which sailed from Bristol to Newfoundland in 1496

• Morgan, Owen: yacht Naomi J - new site under development

• Naslund, Sebastian: built yacht Arrandir (14') and crossed the Atlantic

• NoIdea: an illustrated account of building a 57' ferro-cement ocean cruiser

• Oman, John: attempted circumnavigation, halted by collision

• O'Donnell, Craig: Cheap Pages, proas, sailing canoes, Chinese lugsails, plywood boats, odd sails from polytarp, strange boats, bamboo info, more

• Pacific Tailboats the boats that swim like fish

• PARADOX: a trimaran for the disabled, by Andy Liddiard

• Perry, John: club for experimental dinghy sailing in south east U.K.

• Polynesian Catamaran Association: Wharram Cats admirers club

• Profm: building a Wood Epoxy sailing canoe, with details of the sailing rig

• Quinton, Gen: BOATEK wingsails

• Rahders, Richard: PUMPKINSEED, from Santa Cruz Solar Racing Group, with lots of pictures

• Rantilla, Ron: Front rowing oar system

• RAVE: 16' hydrofoil trimaran, by WindRider of WindLine

• Roberts, Graham: Land Sailing - Ohope Beach Sand Sailers

• Roberts, Steve: Microship - a pedal/solar/sail micro-trimaran.

• Refsnes, Arnulf: Two-man kite-powered catamaran

• Roesler, Cory: Kiteski homepage

• Ronin multihulls project: designing a 140' yacht to race around the world.

• Sanderson, Simon: 60' catamaran built on windsurfing principles, designed as Speed Record contender.

• Savineau, Cedric: Speed sailing

• Siebert, Ben: SailingCats charter company & Pro Kennex Virtual Meeting Room

• Ships that Fly: book and CDROM on a century of hydrofoil development

• Stevenson's Experimental boats - including solar cat and electric hydrofoil

• Thompson family's circumnavigation of the Pacific in 50' yacht Victoria

• Trampofoil: human powered hydrofoil

• Trans-Oceanic Rowing Expedition: Mick Bird's attempted first solo circumnavigation by rowing boat

• Upton, Ken: Rotating kites - a sort of kite wind turbine

• Vogtman, Lee: Condor 40 Trimaran

• Wacker: futuristic multipurpose trimaran designed for home-building

• Walker Wingsails homepage

• Warren, Ted: Tiny Dancer, 21 foot proa

• Wharram, James: Polynesian catamaran homepage

• Whittaker, Giles: foil stabilised sail craft

• Yacht Design Website: projects from designers around the world

• York, Anthony: Slender racing yachts project (from Strathclyde University)

• Zockra: world speed record contender from France

• Marine Satellite Communication consultant - Carl Sederquist

• Naval Architect - Michael Hall

• Tape-Ease Yacht Veneers