Yacht Fairing Texts

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.

 

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.

 

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)

 

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' .

 

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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