Yacht Design
Silver-Sails.com is dedicated to yacht design and analysis. The first section is a naval architecture primer, covering terminology, hydrostatics, resistance, and structures. The main section of Silver-Sails.com is an overview of the yacht design methodology. This design methodology combines the classic "design spiral" with modifications specifically to sailcraft. The final section of the site is a collection of resources. These resources contain many papers, design spreadsheets, and links to other sites on the net.
Naval Architecture Primer
The naval architecture primer is a work in progress. Currently, it contains pages on ship geometry, and resistance. The ship geometry primer contains basic definitions of measurements and coordinates. The resistance primer is split into two parts. The first resistance primer is an overview of modelling and fluid forces. The second primer contains more information on boundary layers and the implications for ships. Shortly, a section on hydrostatics and buoyancy will be posted.
Design Methodology
The Design section is the main content of Silver-Sails.com. It contains information on the design spiral I use for yachts, going through each section with examples. My design spiral is slightly less complicated than the real naval architecture design spiral. However, it is also less generic, which means I can utilize specific tools and perform specific functions for each step in the spiral.
Resources
The resources section of Silver-Sails.com contains three sections. The first section is a list of my own papers on various yacht design subjects. Prominantly included in this are my Master's thesis on meshless lagrangian fluid flow and my undergraduate research into tank testing and cfd correlation. I also have papers on various subjects including boundary integral formulations, a mathematical finite element overview, risk management, and sea spectrums due to various weather systems.
The next section of resources is a set of spreadsheets and tools. I personally use a Mac for all of my computations because of the ease in using the command line, however, most of the spreadsheets will work in any windows box running excel.
Finally, a list of papers, websites, and books written by others is given.