America’s Cup, parlando di “shared design program”
America's CupEnglishVela 11 Aprile 2011 Zerogradinord 0
San Francisco – Con la chiusura delle iscrizioni, in ambito America’s Cup si torna a parlare di “shared design program”, ovvero della possibilità concessa ai team di mettere le mani sul progetto di un AC72 sviluppato per la comunità da parte di un affermato gruppo di tecnici ingaggiato dall’America’s Cup Race Management. Un’idea nata per agevolare la migrazione dei sindacati meno facoltosi verso il mondo dei catamarani dotati di ala rigida.
“La richiesta che abbiamo fatto al design team è stata molto semplice: dateci il progetto migliore possibile – spiega Iain Murray, CEO dell’America’s Cup Race Management – Questa soluzione è proposta per aiutare i team a colmare il gap nei confronti dei sindacati che già da tempo hanno iniziato a lavorare all’AC72 e alla wing sail. L’aspetto tecnologico è senza dubbio uno dei più importanti in ambito Coppa America ed era nostra intenzione dare a tutti l’opportunità di poter contare sui tecnici migliori senza per questo dover incorrere in spese eccessive. Grazie allo shared design program tutti i team possono sperare di essere competitivi quando sarà il momento di varare gli AC72”.
L’America’s Cup Race Management AC72 si comporrà delle linee d’acqua tracciate dallo studio VPLP e dell’ala rigida sviluppata dalla North Technology Group. Le due realtà hanno messo a disposizione del committente gli uomini migliori e hanno chiamato a guidare il gruppo Andy Claughton. Ad affiancarlo, come consulente tecnico dell’America’s Cup Race Management, è stato Michel Marie.
Ovviamente, il pacchetto base potrà essere ulteriormente sviluppato da parte dei sindacati una volta che questi avranno scelto il loro design team, come sottolinea Iain Murray: “Il concept di base potrà subire ogni genere di modifica da parte dei singoli team, in modo da preservare il principio base dell’America’s Cup che vuole competizione in ogni settore, da quello inerente la progettazione a quello meramente sportivo”.
The ACRM design team includes
VPLP – Platform Design
Vincent Lauriot Prévost
Xavier Guilbaud
Yannick d’Armancourt
Philibert Chenais
Simon Watin
HDS – Structures
Herve Devaux
Aurélien Miller
Sebastien Guého
GP Performance
Giorgio Provicialli
Charles Simonin
Yacht Research Unit Kiel
Kai Graf
Hannes Renzsch
Christoph Böhm
North Technology Group – Wing
Michael Richelsen
Dan Neri
Mike Schreiber
Wayne Smith (Southern Spars)
Pete Lawson (Southern Spars)
America’s Cup Race Management
Andy Claughton
Michel Mari
AMERICA’S CUP, TEAMS GET JUMP START WITH SHARED DESIGN PROGRAM
[Source America’s Cup] For the first time ever in the America’s Cup, a shared design program is being offered to the entered teams to jump-start designs of the fast, high-tech AC72s, the new wing-sailed catamarans to be launched next year.
With the surge of new teams that just entered the 34th America’s Cup, the 15 teams that met last week’s entry deadline now have the opportunity to share in an initial design package from an international team of proven industry leaders.
“We gave the design and research team a simple brief: give us your best shot at a winning design,” said Iain Murray, America’s Cup Race Management CEO and Regatta Director. America’s Cup Race Management developed the concept and sourced international design and technology leaders to start designing a package for the new wing-sailed AC72.
“This solution is being offered to close the gap on the front-runners, and provide all teams, large and small, the opportunity to be competitive within the time remaining before racing starts in the new AC72 catamarans next year,” Murray said. “Technology is a critical piece of a Cup-winning program and we want to ensure teams have access to the right people and the latest tools to design a fast boat while still managing their costs.”
The America’s Cup Race Management AC72 will be comprised of a platform designed by high-performance multihull design leaders VPLP of France and a wing and sail package designed by the North Technology Group, a global company headquartered in the USA. Both VPLP and North Technology Group have assembled an international team of their top talent across all areas of the design and structures spectrum. The project will be coordinated for America’s Cup Race Management by Andy Claughton. Michel Marie is America’s Cup Race Management’s technical consultant for VPLP and North Technology Group.
The package will meet a wide range of requirements, from a “turn key” package for the first time entrant, to a baseline design that a competitor can develop once their own design team is established.
“The concept still allows for creative input from competitors, preserving the basic principles inherent in the Cup allowing for competition in both the technology arena as well as sailing skill,” Murray said. “It simply short-cuts the time needed on the front-end design work, provides some of the world’s best thinking on this new Cup design challenge, and reduces the investment needed to develop a yacht capable of winning the 34th America’s Cup.”
The ACRM design team includes
VPLP – Platform Design
Vincent Lauriot Prévost
Xavier Guilbaud
Yannick d’Armancourt
Philibert Chenais
Simon Watin
HDS – Structures
Herve Devaux
Aurélien Miller
Sebastien Guého
GP Performance
Giorgio Provicialli
Charles Simonin
Yacht Research Unit Kiel
Kai Graf
Hannes Renzsch
Christoph Böhm
North Technology Group – Wing
Michael Richelsen
Dan Neri
Mike Schreiber
Wayne Smith (Southern Spars)
Pete Lawson (Southern Spars)
America’s Cup Race Management
Andy Claughton
Michel Marie
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