Yacht Fairing Texts

[Mikeplym]

Hi there everyone, for my final year uni project I am going to be looking into the fairing of yachts, I was just wondering if anyone could reccomend any texts that could/would give me an insight into the subject area as i have relatively little experience of it.

Cheers for any help,

Mike

Ouchhhhhh
that was the wrong question. No it was´nt, but I doubt there is such a text on the market. Fairers and painters are a very special breed in our business.

[waikikin]

Hi Mike, maybe post the question in the composites sect of the forum & write your own from that, & put your hand up for a job doing some fairing to get some real insight, also maybe west system resins has a booklet & also epiglass(now international paints) had one too years ago. One rule should be that "whoever applies the filler must also sand the filler!" Regards from Jeff.

[mastcolin]

Originally Posted by Mikeplym

Hi there everyone, for my final year uni project I am going to be looking into the fairing of yachts, I was just wondering if anyone could reccomend any texts that could/would give me an insight into the subject area as i have relatively little experience of it.

Cheers for any help,

Mike

As someone who fills yachts for a living i would be fascinated to see your final project.

What exactly are you going to study?

i work in the netherlands but have seen lots of others teams techniques throughout the world.

I think there is info in the SP manuals and the Awlgrip manuals but i wouldn't always agree with it.

Keep me informed if you can. And feel free to ask questions (busy now on 62m sail yacht and 45m motoryacht)

[Mikeplym]

Hi there, well basically I'm studying marine engineering atm at uni and we did a project looking at drag reduction on foils which i found fairly interesting and so decided to do my final year project on fluid flow over a surface and my tutor reccomended that i did 'An Investigation into the effect of unfairness on hulls on the fluid flow using CFD' .

[richardb]

I assum you mean fairness, not surface finish.
Start with the aero guys, I'm sure that they have done a lot of work on aerofoil fairness, different medium and reynolds numbers but a start.
Then keep it simple for analysis, so you can run many different fairness levels