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How one small sailboat taught the Kennedys about life, family, leadership, and winning

Sailing. --- Aquatic sports --- Navigation --- Boats and boating --- Yachting --- Kennedy, John F. --- Kennedy family. --- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald --- Victura (Boat)

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Tourism. --- Boating industry. --- Yachting. --- Yachts and yachting --- Boats and boating --- Sailing --- Boat industry --- Boat trade --- Recreational boating industry --- Shipbuilding industry --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Economic aspects

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How and why does sail boat performance depend on the configuration and trim of boat and sails? This book provides the yachtsman with answers in a relatively straightforward account of the physical mechanisms of sailing. It presents an accessible overview of the fluid dynamic aspects of sailing and sailing technology, addressing both aeromechanics and hydromechanics.  Readers are provided with the basic principles of physics and general mechanics that will assist their understanding of the fluid mechanics of sailing yachts. Rich appendices cover not only in-depth, mathematical-physical treatments and derivations for those wishing to explore further, but also helpful summaries of basic mathematical notions for those wishing to refresh their knowledge.  This work explores keel yachts, specifically single-masted mono-hulls with ‘fore-and-aft’, Bermuda-rigged sails. However, much of it is applicable to other types of sailing vessels such as multi-hulls, yachts with multiple masts, windsurf boards and the like.  Yachtsmen, yacht designers and professionals of sailing technology will all find something of interest in this work which provides explanations of the mechanics of sailing in a way that is scientifically justified, whilst remaining appealing to those wishing to use their knowledge on-board a sailing vessel.

Engineering. --- Engineering Fluid Dynamics. --- Fluid- and Aerodynamics. --- Engineering Design. --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Ingénierie --- Technologie hydraulique --- Conception technique --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Yachts. --- Yachts --- Keels. --- Aerodynamics. --- Yachts and yachting --- Fluids. --- Fluid mechanics. --- Naval architecture --- Ships --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Design --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Hydrostatics --- Permeability --- Hydromechanics --- Continuum mechanics

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This book presents the cutting edge developments within a broad field related to robotic sailing. The contributions were presented during the 8th International Robotic Sailing Conference, which has taken place as a part of the 2015 World Robotic Sailing Championships in Mariehamn, Åland (Finland), August 31st – September 4th 2015. Since more than a decade, a series of competitions such as the World Robotic Sailing Championship have stimulated a variety of groups to work on research and development around autonomous sailing robots, which involves boat designers, naval architects, electrical engineers and computer scientists. While many of the challenges in building a truly autonomous sailboat are still unsolved, the books presents the state of the art of research and development within platform optimization, route and stability planning, collision avoidance, power management and boat control.

;. --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Robotic sailboats --- Sailing --- Design and construction --- Robot-controlled sailboats --- Robots --- Sailboats --- Aquatic sports --- Navigation --- Boats and boating --- Yachting --- Artificial intelligence. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics --- Automation

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An autonomous sailboat robot is a boat that only uses the wind on its sail as the propelling force, without remote control or human assistance to achieve its mission. Robotic sailing offers the potential of long range and long term autonomous wind propelled, solar or wave-powered carbon neutral devices. Robotic sailing devices could contribute to monitoring of environmental, ecological, meteorological, hydrographic and oceanographic data. These devices can also be used in traffic monitoring, border surveillance, security, assistance and rescue. The dependency on changing winds and sea conditions presents a considerable challenge for short and long term route and stability planning, collision avoidance and boat control. Building a robust and seaworthy sailing robot presents a truly complex and multi-disciplinary challenge for boat designers, naval architects, systems/electrical engineers and computer scientists. Over the last decade, several events such as Sailbot, World Robotic Sailing Championship and the International Robotic Sailing Conference (WRSC/IRSC) and Microtransat have sparked an explosion in the number of groups working on autonomous sailing robots. Many of the challenges in building truly autonomous sailing robots still remain unsolved. These proceedings present the work of researchers on current and future challenges in autonomous sailboat development, presented at the WRSC/IRSC 2014 in Galway, Ireland, 8th – 12th September 2014.  .

Engineering. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Artificial intelligence. --- Ingénierie --- Intelligence artificielle --- Autonomous robots. --- Mechanics. --- Robotic sailboats -- Design and construction. --- Robotics. --- Sailing. --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Autonomous robots --- Sailing --- Vehicles, Remotely piloted --- Technological innovations --- Unmanned vehicles --- Vehicles --- Autonomous robotic systems --- Radio control --- Automation. --- Remote control --- Aquatic sports --- Navigation --- Boats and boating --- Yachting --- Robots --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics --- Automation