New Volvo design team announced |
| Friday, 07 November 2003 |
| Owen Clarke are now on the design of their ninth swing keel boat. Seven days into the race their most recent launching, Mike Golding’s newly launched and as yet untested Ecover continues to lead from the start this year’s Transat Jacques Vabre, ahead of the Bruce Farr designed Virbac and Marc Lombard’s Sill. No stranger to swing keels himself however, Clay Oliver’s recent projects since being principal designer for Team New Zealand have included the record-setting Mari Cha IV and the soon to be launched swing keel 90’ Genuine Risk.
Other resources and members of the design group include The Wolfson Unit, SP Technologies, and a number of the Americas cup community working in fields such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA) and aero/hydrodynamics. Work is well advanced with the preliminary structural analysis having been completed by SP in September and with the initial hull and vpp work complete funding is now required to commence tank and wind tunnel modelling.
For more information and high resolution 3D images contact:
info@owenclarkedesign.com
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