Amateur Yacht Research Society

Message from the Junk Rig Association (of which AYRS is a member) ----------------------- Dear Amateur Yacht Research Society, It is with great and personal regret that I have to tell you that I've just heard that the founder of the Junk Rig Association, Robin Blain, has died. The JRA was conceived ...

Just a reminder that this years Weymouth Speedweek will be from Saturday 14th October to Friday 20th October at the WPNSA Osprey Quay. Boat builders and experimental craft are all welcome to spend a week in like minded company. Sailing from 10.30 am each day. Evening events organised. AYRS Meeting a...

Call for Papers (deadline: 17 July 2017) Power & Propulsion Alternatives for Ships 8 November 2017, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The current use of alternative fuels and renewable energy sources within the shipping industry is still relatively low. Growing environmental legislation and concerns a...

Front page has changed a bit from when No 51 was published, but if you click on "Home" on the black bar above, you'll get there.

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Our annual gathering to get together, get on the water and test new things. We will be around most of the week and can arrange support boats if needed. We look forward to seeing you there.

The 11th HSMV Symposium will be held in Naples in October 2017. As in previous years, the Symposium will provide an opportunity to present and discuss developments in the design, construction and operation of high speed marine vessels. Papers are invited on all aspect of high speed vessels with a wi...

We've had reports that users with certain versions of Google Chrome are unable to download files correctly: specifically Catalyst 51. These files are currently transmitted in a compressed form (to save your and our bandwidth) and they are not getting re-flated in the users' computers. The usual symp...

Definitely by email! or you can post the bones of it here.
Regards
AYRS Web Admin

AYRS has received the following letter, which I'm posting here and inviting the sender to join the forum. Comments are welcome. Admin ______________________________________________________________________ Your advice about a crazy idea. I'm sending this email, as owing to a mistake on my part, I was...

Thinking about wingsails; anyone considering their design should read Fekete and Newman's paper “Analysis and development of a sailboat with self-trimming wing sail”[1] in particular the second order differential equation which allows prediction of its stability. NACA sections are probably not the b...

The accounts for the year ending 30 September 2016 are on the AYRS website at http://www.ayrs.org/management/AGM%202017%20Directors%20report.pdf.

Forum software has been updated. Should be OK (has been tested); any problems please report to admin
Thank you

The 53rd Annual General Meeting of the Amateur Yacht Research Society will take place on Sunday 22nd January 2017 at the Village Hall, Thorpe, Surrey, TW20 8TE starting at 4.00pm. The AGM is open to all paid-up members and their guests, but only members may vote. Agenda 1. Apologies for absence 2. T...

If aircraft experience is anything to go by - Not good at all! One of the "side-effects" of developing collision-avoidance systems for aircraft (and most commercial aircraft today fly under autopilot, even when taking collision-avoidance action) was the development of a "cheap" a...

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or you could go to http://www.enercon.de/en/news/news-detail/cc_news/show/News/class-renewal-for-the-e-ship-1/
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Welcome to the new AYRS Forum - the place to discuss developments in yacht science. Once registered you will find you have limited access to most of the forums. Some of them are restricted to paid-up AYRS members (well, they do need some privileges for their money), but in most you will be able to r...