Benefits of Using Combined Marine Radar and Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Benefits and Shortfalls of AIS for Recreational Boaters Boaters tend to regard AIS as a source of absolutely correct and valid information that they can rely on to provide them with data regarding approaching and overtaking vessels. But the fact is that AIS data can be erroneous and it can lack critical details about vessels…
Rudder Design for C&C 35 – Success!! Updated with Race Results
“It is very clear that at angles above 9 degrees that the foil shape suffers a huge 60% reduction in lift that never recovered, even at angles as high as 20 degrees.”… “Now it can be seen that at rudder angles above 10 degrees the rudder will continue to develop lift and will not have…
The Next Marine Radar Technology
Back in 2007/8 I was employed by Honeywell Aerospace in Redmond Washington and was working on solid state pulse compression weather radars for aviation. The newly developed RDR 4000 (and now the RDR 7000) had just hit the market. It was the first replacement of the original simple pulse modulated solid state radars (replacing Magnetron…
Vacanti “Active Fence” Keel Design
Well known Yacht Designer / Naval Architect Dave Gerr approached me some time back as he was writing a keel and rudder design methods article for a well known Yacht Design School. He had noticed the article I had published for Sailing World that described a keel design that was used on a winning J36…
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