Clive 13 Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Hey Guys, Anyone know when/where these talks are taking place? Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 This one Clive? IPENZ Centenary Lecture - Battle of the Boats NZ Marine members are cordially invited to attend the IPENZ Centenary Lecture Battle of the Boats: How technology won the America’s Cup. Hear rival engineers - Andy Kensington from Team NZ and Neil Wilkinson from Oracle - debate the technology used which enabled Oracle to make a miraculous turn-around to win the 2013 America’s Cup. This free public lecture series will be held as follows: WHANGAREI – 6 May 2014 – 6.30pm Capitaine Bougainville Theatre, Forum North Performance Conference & Expo Centre, Rust Avenue, Vinetown TAURANGA – 8 May 2014 – 6.30pm Tauranga Yacht & Power Boat Club, 90 Keith Allen Drive, Sulphur Pt DUNEDIN – 13 May 2014 – 6.30pm Maurice Joel Theatre, Otago Boys’ High School, 2 Arthur Street NEW PLYMOUTH – 15 May 2014 – 6.30pm Quality Hotel Plymouth International, Corner of Courtney and Leach Streets AUCKLAND – 20 May 2014 – 6.30pm Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland Girls' Grammar School, 16 Howe St, Newton NAPIER – 22 May 2014 – 6.30pm Napier War Memorial Conference Centre, 48 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill After the veteran America’s Cup engineers have shared their opposing views and behind the scenes insights in an hour-long lecture, take the opportunity to get your own questions answered in a 15 minute Q&A session. The Centenary Lectures are open to the public, no registration is required and entrance is free – all are welcome. We recommend you arrive in good time to secure your seat. Link to post Share on other sites
Clive 13 Posted May 4, 2014 Author Share Posted May 4, 2014 This one Clive? Awesome! Thanks for that. Link to post Share on other sites
ballystick 72 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 I've just been to the presentation in Tauranga, it was a very professional and interesting presentation. the development work by TNZ was amazing and the technical operating systems were explained in a broad sense plus some insights into the causes of mishaps were presented. Well worth it, free by the way. The time length was at the limit for most but there was a lot of material to cover. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Any chat or shock horror revaluations or similar in any centreboard controlling gear? Link to post Share on other sites
ballystick 72 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Time was running fast and they were over their time but the system with the electric actuator that helped adjust the foil was shown with a brief explanation. It was presented as the breakthrough feature for Oracle to master the control of the beasts pitching problems, a further detailed explanation would have been great but too many people wanted to ask other questions. Can some one else get this elaborated upon at the following seminars. Other factors were mentioned such as the wing rake and rudder mods too, but the electric actuator system looked to be the most devious or superior. The nose dive by Oracle at the last start was overcome so easily is another point to explore, they described the forces involved in countering this incident and for this system to almost instantly adjust deserves a good story/explanation. Link to post Share on other sites
Clive 13 Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Great talk last night - about 600 people attended. Big thanks to the speakers. Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Hell 0 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 a further detailed explanation would have been great but too many people wanted to ask other questions. Can some one else get this elaborated upon at the following seminars Was a very interesting talk, Neil showed how it worked with some simplified animations but probably didn't go into any more detail than in any of the other lectures. An article released shortly after the cup showing how the electro-mechanical-hydraulic feedback loop worked can be found here: http://www.cupexperience.com/blog/2013/ ... rol-system Link to post Share on other sites
Battleship 100 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Good article about it all here. http://www.sail-world.com/NZ/Americas-Cup:-Oracle-and-Team-NZ-designers-reveal-AC72-secrets/122447 Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 I think this is the same designer's talks Clive. If anyone missed them, this appeared on the RPNYC skippers and crew facebook feed this morning from Sandy Munro: Well, the America's Cup shenanigans have kicked off again, deep breaths all round. Before that all gathers pace does anyone want to know more about what happened in the last one? What did happen to make Oracle improve so much, what were the differences between the boats and will we ever recover from the emotional stress? Well, can't help on that last one, but if you have an hour and a half free for an engineering presentation (from IPENZ) you may well learn a little more about the boats and the development work involved. Hope it inspires... Battle of the Boats Battle of the boats - how technology won the America's Cup: this 1 hour IPENZ lecture, hosted by Beca... Link to post Share on other sites
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