Sailing Yacht Course at the SNAME Annual Meeting

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2007 SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo
and Ship Production Symposium
November 14-16, 2007

COURSE 3 - Sailing Yacht Performance Analysis
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Crystal Ballroom IV (hotel)
Fee: Member $175
* Non-member $300
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Course Description:

This course is based on a senior-level class offered at the University of Michigan in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. The material will focus on different analyses of the forces that act on a sailing yacht. The topics that are to be covered include the forces and moments on a sailing yacht, airfoil theory, keel and rudder design, sail design, model testing, and the use of computers in yacht performance analysis.
Material in the course will draw heavily on the textbook:

LARSSON, LARS, AND ROLF E. ELIASSON. 2007. Principles of Yacht Design.
Camden, Maine: International. Marine McGraw-Hill, 3rd Ed.

Participants are strongly encouraged to obtain the text before the class meets.

At the end of the course, a spreadsheet-based velocity prediction program will be introduced and distributed to the participants. During the course, each component of the velocity prediction program will be explained so that the user will have an understanding of how a polar velocity diagram is created for a yacht.
The lecturers will be Dr. Robert F. Beck and Dr. Kevin Maki, both members of the faculty at the University of Michigan.
The course is equivalent to 7 PDH or 0.7 CEU anticipated.

http://www.sname.org/AM2007/conference_courses.shtml