Who's yacht? Mike's yacht?ORIGINAL: thegreatwent
Blech that yacht is hideous. Anybody know why the tumblehome design has come back in to fashion for ships? I've heard it is part of the stealth package but it has to be a pain to keep dry.
Welcome to the wonderful world of sailboat design. People pour millions of dollars every year into developing and tweaking the racing design rules, and tens of millions of dollars every year into finding any edge they can.
Most cruising boats are designed by racing sailors and are configured to let the owner race every now & then, without taking a major handicap hit. I could give ya 4 big reasons why a boat designed in the 70s or 80s has tumble home – but just think IOR Mk-1 and 2. I could give you a tutorial if you really want.
Given all these hundreds of millions of dollars spent on tightening up the rules, and finding ways around them, using the most powerful computational tools we got on the entire planet, I think a handful of amateurs, working for free, doing the AE thing, is something utterly beyond normal expectations.
