Name: Annual General Meeting of the Amateur Yacht Research Society
Start: 2021-01-24T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-01-24T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Basingstoke Canal Centre

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Catalyst 54 is now available for paid-up members

8th January 201913th October 2019 AYRS Editor 0 Comments

Catalyst 54 is now available for paid-up members In the Forum at https://www.ayrs.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=37 If you’re not already registered on the

Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Re: Hello from Berlin, Germany
Welcome Günter, - look forward to hearing more about your boat building project and perhaps seeing some pictures. I have not been to Berlin but I understand that there are many navigable rivers, canals and lakes in the area and I imagine that these would be ideal for leasurely exploration with a mobile houseboat such […]
Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Hello from Berlin, Germany
Hello everyone,my name is Günter and I live in Berlin, Germany. Since 2017 I’m building a boat: Cabin-Katamaran 6.3 m (LOA), ply on frame, Bernd Kohler design “ECO62”. She will be driven by electric (outboard) motors, as far solar assisted as possible. I’m interested in measurements of some values like drag, power efficiency of propelling […]
Multihulls • Re: Asymmetric outrigger hulls or amas
Hi Georges,There are few things to be aware of: Construction: I thing foldable plywood would be great for an outrigger. The principle is fully describe in the Gougeon brothers book and could be design by folding some hard paper as template.Profile design: A good start will be to get inspiration by the Proa dagger board […]
News • Re: Sail GP Cowes
We are now into July 2020 and the SailGP website is still giving 14-15 August 2020 as the date for F50 catamaran racing based at Cowes UK. However, if you look further into the website you find that the whole SailGP program has been postponed to 2021 with seven events rather than five planned for […]
Gossip & other snippets • Power from kites
At a recent AYRS on-line meeting we briefly discussed generating power from kites and I showed a short video clip about the system developed by Scottish company Kite Power Systems (their intellectual property now I think sold to a Norwegian company). The idea of this is to run a kite line in and out with […]