AMERICA’S CUP X
THOMAS TISON YACHT DESIGN
COMPETITIVE IDEAS LABORATORY
THE STORY
To love sailing is to inexorably encounter the mythical world of the America’s Cup.
The passion for sailing became a profession and the America’s Cup turned out to not only be a yacht race but a design competition for the yachts of the future.
For a designer, the America’s Cup is a laboratory for competitive ideas. A quest that every yacht designer has pursued for more than 150 years which diffuses the most advanced technologies in the world of sailing and beyond.
4 participations in the America’s Cup in total. It has has shaped the way I approach yacht design: by understanding the objectvies, constraints, variables and how to optimize them and sometimes push them in the best manner, in order to make naval architecture progress.
Today we offer the benefit of this experience to individual and companies who wish to create pioneering projects: whether using advanced construction methods, propulsion methods, optimized hull shapes or new systems.
We offer the best methods in design, project management and construction with the most advanced numerical tools available today.
The boats now are running very close to the water, have two cockpits and, between them, an air tunnel. The competitive edge is outside of what computers study, at the interface between different fields of science, where there is uncertainty.
37TH – INEOS TEAM
2021, AC75 MONOHULLS
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
35TH – ARTEMIS RACING
2017, AC50 CATAMARANS
ROYAL SWEDISH YACHT CLUB
Structural design of rigid wing platform and foils on foiling catamarans
Development of foil design simulation tools (Fluid Structure Interaction)
Development of lightweight rigid wing construction methods
33RD – TEAM ORIGIN
2010, AC90 MONOHULLS
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB
Hull design
Development of hull design analysis programs
32ND – MASCALZONE LATINO
2007, IACCV5 MONOHULLS
CLUB NAUTICO DI ROMA
Deck layout and sailing system design
Detailed construction drawings
Weight estimation and control
Spy
Every boat that I draw is an extension of these years spent in the America’s Cup. There is a form of continuity between the boats that I create and the America’s Cup.
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