What do you know about sailing yacht stability? Which are the peculiarities of the stability of a sailing yacht? Is there any supposition different from those applied in conventional ships? If you have to verify the stability of your yacht, would you be sure of which criteria you should applied? The aim of this paper is to answer these questions among others. The authors assume that the readers of this paper come from varied backgrounds and experience. Some of you may not be totally familiar with these stability requirements whereas others may use them every day. It is hoped that this paper will be some enlightenment for the former and be an interesting review for the latter. In this paper the philosophy of sailing yacht stability will be presented. It will be also examined the criteria in force in countries such as Spain, United Kingdom, United States and The Netherlands among others and the assumptions upon which they are based will be highlighted. In order to clarify ideas two reference sailing yacht will be subjected to different criteria and compared their severity.


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    Title :

    Stability Criteria for Sailing Vessels



    Publication date :

    2008-01-01


    Remarks:

    MDY 08 : Madrid Diseño de Yates 2006 | III Simposio Internacional de Diseño y Producción de Yates de Motor y Vela. MDY 2008 | 26/06/2008 - 27/06/2008 | Madrid, España


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    621




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