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 heroes, the machines, and the human and technological challenge it represents.
From the coast of Ile de Ré, this budding passion for sailing became a profession and this world of the America’s Cup turned out to not only be a yacht race in the present but the design of yachts of the future.
For a designer, the America’s Cup is a source of inspiration that leads to humility. A laboratory for competitive ideas, a quest for speed that sharpens the senses, shapes team spirit and competitiveness. A quest that every yacht designer has pursued, year after year, for more than 150 years now and which diffuses the most advanced technologies in the world of sailing and beyond.
4th participation in the America’s Cup. Today with Ineos Britannia. It is the energy of a team that can take ideas further with ever more efficient sail plans, sharper hulls, and increasingly sophisticated construction methods.
It is this quest that drives me, the quest to make the boats lighter, stiffer, to use the rarest and perhaps the most advanced materials, to understand them and assemble them with the finest methods so that the boats can glide, at tremendous speed, through water and air in the simplest manner.
INEOS BRITANNIA
Today, Thomas Tison is a member, key decision maker, of the British team Ineos Britannia for the 37th America’s cup.
INEOS BRITANNIA
Today, Thomas Tison is a member, key decision maker, of the British team Ineos Britannia for the 37th America’s cup.
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
In a way, every boat that I draw is an extension of these years spent in the America’s Cup. There is a form of continuity, the boats create themselves, one after the other
AC37
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