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    Posted: 05 Feb 14 at 10:40pm
one of the good websites I have found on the subject
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Books by Bethwaite, Marchaj and Gentry are a good place to start. There are obviously similarities to wings, but also important differences, not least the fact that boats are righting moment limited and IMHO it makes sense to resolve the force into thrust and heel components rather than lift and drag ones, but that rarely happens in the literature.

There are also some good websites around and MIT has some course notes on line I think.
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Hi everyone. Not sure if this is a good place to start. I have gotten back into dinghy racing after a long time. Partly out of pure interest (Background is aeronautical engineering)but partly to help me work out good sail settings I would like to read up on sail aerodynamics. Has anyone got a good source for sail aerodynamics and how it affects different sail types, materials etc etc Any comments debate etc etc?
ps I am sailing a laser but hope to go to another more technical class one day.
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