12:00 NOON - LUNCHEON 12:30 PM - SPEAKER 1:00 PM - Q&A MAY PROGRAMS 1:30 PM - ADJOURNMENT

By Ron Young, Wednesday Yachting Luncheon Chair

May 1: Biomimetic Design – What Nature Can Teach us About Speed WYLChanning Robertson, Ruth & William Bowes Professor Emeritus, School of Engineering, Stanford Univ. To survive in a hostile world, organisms engage with their environment to obtain food and escape predators. Speed helps. Evolutionary schemes enable species to propel themselves at high speeds through air or water with a minimum expenditure of precious metabolic resources. Since the dawn of humans, we have sought to move through air and water, at faster speeds for energy expended. Humans now recognize that before the first physics book was penned, nature had spent eons confronting this very problem: how to get maximum speed for minimum work. This is evident in both aquatic (sharks, dolphins, fish) and airborne (birds and insects) species. Channing will review the new world of bio-inspiration known as, “biomimetics”—learning from nature to make things go faster. May 8: Herreshoff and Reliance – Innovation and the Business of Winning Bill Lynn, Managing Director, Herreshoff Marine Museum and Classic Yacht Owners Association The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (HMCo.) operated from 1878 to 1945. It was founded by brothers John Brown Herreshoff and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, the “Wizard of Bristol”. In its heyday, it was a global leader in industrial design, engineering, naval architecture, disruptive innovation and post-Industrial Revolution manufacturing in New England. Many of the techniques and processes pioneered by HMCo. are still used today, and the rise and fall of the company holds compelling lessons for today’s business leaders. HMCo. designed and built over 2,400 power and sail boats, including the mega-yacht Reliance, the largest boat to ever sail in the America’s Cup. Built for the 1903 America’s Cup, Reliance was a symphony of superlatives. May 15: How L-36.com Grew from A Single Fleet Resource to Serving Thousands Allen Edwards, Inventor, Coder, Website Developer of L-36.com Allen is an inventor and the founder of L-36.com. What started as a resource for the L-36 fleet has grown into one of the best all-around online resources for sailors in many fleets. The site features a weather page used by sailors and the US Coast Guard, almost a thousand free marine manuals, a database of used sails that is searchable by boat type, and custom tidal currents charts for local racing venues. He has been called the “Soft Shackle Expert” for his tutorials and inventions. Allen also developed and supplied custom instrumentation for the US Olympic Sailing program.

May 22: To Save the Bay, We Must First Save the Delta! Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Save the Delta Over the last ten years, Barbara has worked with staff, board members and local advisors to grow Save the Delta from 70 to 40,000 supporters! They share a common mission: “Restore the Delta and save it for future generations”. Barbara has given Delta residents a voice in myriad government processes to oppose tunneling under the Delta and other extreme methods to export Delta water and by-pass San Francisco Bay. The peripheral canals built in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s have already damaged the health of SF Bay and its Delta estuary. Barbara has worked to help Californians get accurate scientific facts on the health of Delta fisheries, wildlife and people and economic facts about how water-export policy effects local residents.

May 29: Two Years Before the Match – America’s Cup 36 is Already Exciting Terry Hutchinson, Skipper, Executive Director, NYYC’s American Magic Challenge for America’s Cup AC36 teams are taking different approaches to the new AC75s, recognizing that these new foiling-arm 75-foot monohulls will likely exceed 50 knots. NYYC’s American Magic and Ineos Team UK are both sailing scaled-down foiling betas while Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa are testing with virtual sailing simulators. American Magic skipper, Terry Hutchinson, will review the engineering, excitement and dangers of “dueling-arm” competitors converging at speeds of 70mph on the race course. Terry was a four-time All-American at Old Dominion University where his Monarchs won four national championships. He was twice ICSA College Sailor of the Year (1989, 1990), an 11-time world champion and 2x Rolex Yachtsman of the Year (2008, 2014).

June 5: Herreshoff Mastery Brought to Life – A Film About Restoring A Classic Alison Langley, Photographer, Filmmaker; Todd French, Yacht Builder, Restorer of Marilee In 1916, Herreshoff introduced the New York 40, a new one-design class for the New York Yacht Club. This seaworthy ocean racer, with comfort-oriented coastal-cruising accommodations, proved to be competitive on the racecourse and a breakout class. Alison’s handsome documentary film “NY 40 Marilee: Restoration of a Herreshoff Classic” follows the no-expense-spared rebirth of this classic yacht. Centering on Marilee’s exquisite restoration at French & Webb in Belfast, Maine, the film thoughtfully weaves the history of the class, its roots at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and the yacht’s ambitious and successful racing program in New England into a compelling story about quality, integrity and a 93-year old yacht. Alison’s film, like her subject, is beautifully crafted.

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