{"id":888,"date":"2019-12-20T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2019-12-19T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:34:26","slug":"yacht-racing-forum-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2019\/12\/20\/yacht-racing-forum-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacht racing forum 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The annual Yacht Racing Forum of 2019 took place in\nBilbao, Spain during 25th<\/sup> and 26th<\/sup> of November. A host of key stakeholders participated including yacht\ndesigners, yacht builders, pro sailors, academics, event organizers and\nequipment manufacturers, all from the forefront of technology and the most\nimportant international yacht racing events such as America\u2019s Cup, Ocean Race,\nOlympics, IMOCAs etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Awesome engineered foil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The University of Southampton represented at this very prestigious event by MSc student Mr. Menelaos Xanthis. He presented about work used for his MSc dissertation on \u201cKeel failures: \u00a0A probabilistic structural reliability study using Monte Carlo simulation\u201d. This project was conducted under the supervision of Dr James I.R. Blake and was presented in the session \u201cNew Talents in Yacht Design\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several topics of great interest were discussed during the forum.\nIn the field of sailing management, the main topics where about managing\nevents, races or sailing teams, but also about the future and evolution of\nsailing racing regulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the design and technology field, the most prominent and\nrecurring theme was the evolution of foiling. It was a common belief among the\nparticipants that foil size and importance will not stop to grow in the\nforeseeable future, and also because of the complexity of the system,\nelectronics will be employed more frequently.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Of course, as in\nevery other aspect of human activity, the topics of the environment and the\nclimate were prominent. Of particular interest were the topics of environmentally\nfriendly equipment including hulls, clothing etc, and especially the inability\nto produce recyclable hulls of high racing ability, but equally the impact that\nevents and gear can have on the environment and how this can be mitigated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also worth mentioning that as discussed in the\nmeteorology and climate session, the changes in weather patterns are expected\nto impact heavily the ocean yacht racing events. Icebergs will appear more\noften and in areas where previously were not observed, and also the hurricane\nseason will be less predictable, as will be the path of hurricanes. All these\nphenomena are expected to open new routes not previously accessible, but also\npotentially endanger participants in racing events.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forum concluded with the announcement of the\nRacing Yacht Forum of 2020 which will be hosted in Portsmouth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual Yacht Racing Forum of 2019 took place in Bilbao, Spain during 25th and 26th of November. A host of key stakeholders participated including yacht designers, yacht builders, pro sailors, academics, event organizers and equipment manufacturers, all from the forefront of technology and the most important international yacht racing events such as America\u2019s Cup, … Continue reading Yacht racing forum 2019<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}