The superyacht circuit grows with every new season, as do the demands for better sailing performance. Always on top of the aesthetics, for their new 130-footer Reichel/Pugh were inevitably pressed hard to deliver some rigorous performance targets. Read on as RP Designer, Naval Architect and Structural Engineer David Oliver writes about how he got his first grey hairs...
The superyacht circuit grows with every new season, as do the demands for better sailing performance. Always on top of the aesthetics, for their new 130-footer Reichel/Pugh were inevitably pressed hard to deliver some rigorous performance targets. Read on as RP Designer, Naval Architect and Structural Engineer David Oliver writes about how he got his first grey hairs...
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Reichel/Pugh designs have not only been the impetus of a racing/cruising class, but continue to push technology through iterative hull design, strategic interior and deck architecture, accumulated racing data analysis, and an extended computational fluid dynamics research program now spanning over a decade.
November 2016 Seahorse cover