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Author: John Perry

Meeting Reports 

Zoom Mtg. 25 April 2020 – Designing a Sliding Seat Rowing Boat – John Perry

27th April 202017th June 2020 John Perry 0 Comments rowing, rowing boat, sliding seat

John Perry gave a presentation about the design process for a 4.57m (15 foot) sliding seat rowing boat, this presentation being followed by video demonstrating the design features.  The construction and use of the boat will be the subject of a following meeting.

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Zoom Mtg. 11 April 2020 – A ‘Rescue Float’ for Beach Lifeguards – Kim Fisher

17th April 202017th June 2020 John Perry 0 Comments lifeguard, rescue craft

Kim Fisher presented the Rescue Float project which he is carrying out in collaboration with another AYRS member Chris Watson. 

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AYRS meeting at Thorpe (Surrey UK) – 3rd Nov 2019

22nd November 201922nd November 2019 John Perry 0 Comments Meeting, Surf Rescue

Report by John Perry – Another busy meeting with a constant flow of presentations from about 09:30 through to 16:30,

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Report of AYRS meeting at Thorpe 17-11-05

24th November 201715th November 2019 John Perry 0 Comments

Several hours of presentations of members’ projects were interspersed with chat over tea/coffee breaks together with a mid-day break for our packed lunches.

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Upcoming Events

  1. AYRS Zoom Meeting – Members Projects

    13 March @ 19:30 - 22:30
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    10 April @ 19:30 - 22:00
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    9 October - 15 October
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    13 October @ 19:30 - 21:30

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RSS Forum – latest posts

  • Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Re: Hello from SF Bay - Tilt wing
    You said, Would love to discover others. I hope demonstrating easy prototyping & some success will encourage collaborative experimenters worldwide.Hello Joel. Dave Culp here, of...wait for it... Martinez, CA. For readers not familiar, Bernicia and Martinez are less than 15 miles apart--on either side of the Sacramento River Delta. We're neighbors!I have been putting kites […]
  • Wind- & Water-turbines, Propellors, Human power • Alan Craig's oscillating fin & Ken Kingsbury's Foil Rower
    I have been thinking about Alan Craig's oscillating fin drive, and what I can infer from Ken Kingsbury's Foil Rower:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcNaV3_3n3UAs far as I can tell from 0:55 - 0:58, those foils are rigid. There seems to be no attempt to make them twist, like the fins of the Hobie Mirage drive. I think the difference […]
  • Welcome to the AYRS Forums • Re: Hello from SF Bay - Tilt wing
    Wingfoiling is a new branch of sailing sport that has taken off (literally!) amazingly quickly. I think it was less than two years ago that AYRS member Sav Salvage gave an inspiring talk about it at one of our AYRS meetings in Surrey UK. It was a really new thing then but now I am […]
  • Events & other announcements • 17 February - Zoom Conference about wind propulsion (Free)
    The Royal Institute of Naval Architects is holding a free conference about wind propulsion on the morning of 17 February, this to be via Zoom. This is the program for the morning:11:00 – 11:10 Welcome and Introduction11:10 – 11:45 Technology Panel11:30 – 11:45 Technology Panel Discussion11:45 – 11:55 Technology Panel Q&A-5 min break-12:00 – 12:05 […]
  • Gossip & other snippets • Tiltable (Flettner) Rotor sails on Baltic Sea ferry
    See https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/35m-ti ... rgo-ro-ro/Statistics: Posted by AYRS Editor — Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:22 pm

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