New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club (NZMYC) next meeting 29th of November 2012, guest speaker Pete Melvin

NZMYC are going to have Pete Melvin of the famous Morrelli and Melvin yacht design group as a guest speaker at their next meeting.  Morrelli and Melvin have been involved with iconic projects such as Steve Fosset's Playstation ocean racing catamaran and were involved in modifications to the super trimaran USA17 that won comprehensively against the giant catamaran Alinghi V in the deed of gift match to reclaim the America's Cup.

Pete Melvin
New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club's Guest Speaker is Pete Melvin, who will speak at RNZYS Dinghy Locker on the 29th November 2012 at 7:30pm

Pete and his staff are proud to be working with the best designers and sailors in the world as part of Emirates Team New Zealand.  Pete was involved as a consultant to the design team for 2010 Americas Cup winning Yacht, and then helped write the AC72 Class Rule.

Pete’s sailing resume is long and distinguished. He has won a combined 30 national/continental championships in Monohulls and Multihull’s and three world championships (ISAF Youth Doublehanded Worlds and two A Class Catamaran World Championships). He is also recognized by the World Sailing Speed Record Council for being a crew member on several world speed records on ocean-going Multihull’s.

Pete graduated from Boston University in 1985 with a Bachelors Degree in Aerospace Engineering. He gained invaluable experience working on the design of future military and commercial aircraft configurations as an Advanced Design Engineer and team leader at McDonnell Douglas. Pete Melvin's dual career paths in aerospace engineering and sailboat racing united with the formation of Morrelli & Melvin in 1992.

Morrelli and Melvin are designers of high performance Multihull’s. Projects include 1988 and 2010 America’s Cup winners, PlayStation - the 125 foot racing supercat, The NACRA 17 Olympic catamaran, high performance cruising cats like the Gunboat series and M&M65, and even a few fast powercats like the ETNZ tender.

http://www.morrellimelvin.com/