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K37 was designed by CONTINUUM ID's Roland Whitehead for the British challenge for
the International Catamaran Challenge Trophy, better known as
the "Little America's Cup", in 1987. Built by Carl Douglas Racing
Shells, the world's leading maker of wooden skulling boats and
pairs, in compsote wood with a radical Kevlar® and foam sandwich
sail.
The sail, designed with the Computational Fluid Dynamics assistance
of Professor Steven Fiddes of the UK's Bristol University, incorporated
double split flap producing and upwind sailing efficiency yet
to be surpassed by any sailboat.
Having failed to beat the Australian Telecom's "Yellow Pages"
defender she returned to the UK and took part in several demonstration
sails before being destroyed in storage by the 1989 gales. |
