Sailovation
The innovative project Sailovation was equipped with Capi2. With this installation Capi2 became 2nd at the Segeln Awards 2006.
Introduction
The “sailOvation” is a German innovation bearer for the cruising yacht of the future. She is a 30 ft long canting keel yacht and bound to plane on a close reach. The project is sponsored by the German yachting magazine “segeln-magazin” and involved companies to build her.
The rig is a key term to enable the “sailOvation” to plane on a close reach. The aim was to design and to construct a rig that is strong and stiff enough to resist the big righting moment from the canting keel and that is also as light as possible. A global geometrical nonlinear finite element analysis is performed for the rig. Two load cases are investigated: dock tune and sailing close hauled. The rig is constructed out of carbon for the spars and out of PBO fibres for the transverse standing rigging.
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