New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club meeting, 6th August 2013

From the New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club noticeboard:

 

http://www.multihull.org.nz/noticeboard/

 

6 August at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron

To be held in the Dinghy Locker at 7.30pm. A short film on a AC45 will follow.

Our Guest Speaker this month is Nina Heatley; she has a huge amount of experience in composite design and boat building.

Nina has been asked to talk about what it takes to make a multihull safe for offshore sailing and discuss a number of recent failures of cruising boats that illustrate common deficiencies found in current designs.  These fundamentals are equally important to high performance racing Multis.

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New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club meeting 28th of February

New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club meeting on 28th February

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Monday 04 February 2013

The Luna Rossa Challenge Story

NZ Multihull Club Night
The Luna Rossa Challenge Story
At the RNZYS Dinghy Locker
28th February 2013 1900hrs

“This time you didn’t win but you certainly didn’t lose. You only lose when you don’t have the courage to return. Not winning is part of the learning process which leads you to success.” Peter Blake.

One evening, on the 3rd February 1997 in an office near the Duomo of Milan, Patrizio Bertelli and yacht designer German Frers are discussing the construction of a cruising boat. Suddenly German Frers asks Bertelli "Why don't we do the America's Cup?" "Let's do the America's Cup!" In 15 days, from scratch, the core of the sports program is designed; the Luna Rossa Team is born.

In September 2011 curious about the performance of the AC 45 catamarans, Patrizio Bertelli goes to Plymouth to follow the second round of races in the America’s Cup World Series. It's a rainy, cold day, with 15 – 18 knots of wind; yachts fly, they tack like single-hulls, they nearly overtake the chase boat! Patrizio Bertelli immediately starts to think about the possible involvement of Luna Rossa in the 2012 ACWS circuit.

Come and hear Thomas Gaveriaux tell the story and the latest updates of the Luna Rossa challenge. All members welcome.

Thomas Gaveriaux
Design Coorindator, Luna Rossa
French, he acquired a wide experience in the design and building of multi-hulls, including the maxi trimaran “Sodebo”. He obtained numerous wins, both as a sailor and as a designer. They include winning the 2010 America’s Cup with BMW Oracle Racing, where he was design co-ordinator and structural engineering manager, and the Fastnet 2011 in the 40 class.

Northwest Multihull Association website

From the Northwest Multihull Association website:

http://www.nwmultihull.org/home

The NWMA is a non profit club for sailors, builders, racers, and dreamers of multihull sailing craft. We hold monthly meetings with speakers covering a broad spectrum of topics related to multihulls. Membership includes discounts at local suppliers, a subscription to the club newsletter, cruising rendezvous, and access to a group of interesting and experienced multihull builders and sailors. Come on aboard!

The club meets at Puget Sound Yacht Club, 2321 N. Northlake Way, Seattle, on the first Tuesday of every month (except July and August, to make more time on the water), There is a pot-luck supper starting at 6:30 PM with a program generally starting at 7:30.

Meetings are open to all, regardless of membership or boat ownership status.

Northwest Multihull Association Seattle, Meeting Tuesday January 8th, 2013, Proa information and development with Paul Bieker

This note from Vincent De Pillis

Next meeting of the Northwest Multihull Association (Tuesday January 8, 2013) will focus on Proas, We will scavenge proa video from the web, discuss pros and cons, and generally get our heads out of the tri/cat box. Our speaker will be the eminent Naval architect Paul Bieker, who has been doodling a new Proa with Russ Brown of Jzerro fame.

The meeting starts at 6:30 with food and beer, and the program starts at 7:30.

Location: Puget Sound Yacht Club, 2321 N. Northlake Way, in Seattle.         

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/