The AYRS is a UK registered Educational Charity (No 234081) dedicated to finding out how to make yachting better (faster, more fun, whatever you want it to be). Our members run from sober sided professional yacht designers and builders to bearded eccentrics full of ideas that they cannot make work. From our members have come the modern sailing multihulls, self-steering gear, sailboards, a flock of successful sailing hydrofoils, the World Speed Sailing Record system, etc etc. Now people are taking off with kiteboats and autogyro-sails, and the first amphibious bicycle!
Membership is open to anyone interested in the improvement of yachts and equipment through research and development.
Subjects range from "Natural Aerodynamics" (birds' wings and vortex generation/reduction), to "Self Steering", to "21st Century Multihulls". Subjects generally run about 3:1, high tech:cruising subjects.
If you want information on specific subjects, why not contact one of our list of coordinators
You can also find a full list of our booklet publications on the accompanying Publications List page (also downloadable as an Acrobat PDF file). Alternatively you can look up specific subjects in the AYRS Publications Index.
Have a look at the title page for details.
We hope you will join us. You will be very welcome!
If you want to send us an article, you will find our views on the copyright issue here.
Legally, AYRS is a UK company limited by guarantee - which means that in the event of it being bankrupted the members have a limited liability of GBP 1.00.
It has two governing documents (like most UK companies)