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Fourth Chesapeake

Sailing Yacht Symposium

Set For January 20

The Fourth Chesapeake Sailing

Yacht Symposium will be held on

January 20, 1979 in the Key Au- ditorium of St. John's College,

Annapolis, Md.

The Chesapeake Section of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers (SNAME) joins

The Chesapeake Bay Yacht Rac- ing Association (CBYRA) and

The Naval Academy Sailing

Squadron (NASS) to bring to- gether the designers, builders, and sailmakers of sailing yachts, and the many yachtsmen who en- joy the leisure of cruising, and the challenge of racing, in a sym- posium on sailing yachts.

A series of papers by a group of distinguished authors will cov- er subjects of interest to cruising and racing sailors, as well as to professional naval architects and marine engineers. Interesting dis- cussions of the papers will follow their presentation.

The program is as follows:

Session I — Moderator: Olin J.

Stephens II, SNAME. 1. "Offshore Rating Update,"

David R. Pedrick. 2. "A Summary of the H. IRV-

ING PRATT Ocean Racing Hand- icapping Project," Justin E. Ker- win and J.N. Newman. 3. "The Measurement Handi- capping System of USYRU," Dan- iel D. Strohmeier.

Session II—Moderator: Robert

D. McWethy, NASS. 4. "Selecting a Keel Appendage for a Cruising Yacht From a

Standard Keel Series," Deborah

W. Berman. 5. "Philosophy and Reasoning for Light Scantling Design,"

Halsey C. Herreshoff.

Session III — Moderator: Wil- liam W. Staley, CBYRA. 6. "Theoretical Estimation of the Influence of Some Main De- sign Factors on the Performance of International Twelve Meter

Class Yachts," Peter van Oossanen. 7. "Photographic Essay: Ship

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Session IV — Moderator: Rich- ards T. Miller, SNAME. 9. "A Computer-Based Method for Analyzing Flow Over Sails,"

D.F. Thrasher, D.T. Mook, and

A.H. Nayfeh. 10. "The Evolving Role of the

Towing Tank," Karl L. Kirkman.

Tour of Towing Tank — A tour will be conducted of the new Tow- ing Tank at the Naval Academy where a sailing yacht model will be tested in waves.

The advanced registration fee of $20 per member of one of the sponsoring organizations and $25 for nonmembers, provides a name badge, program, admittance to the

Technical Sessions, and one com- plete set of papers. A $5 regis- tration fee will be charged for spouses of registrants and stu- dent members of the sponsoring organizations. The fee for late registration received after Janu- ary 10, 1979 is $25 per member and $30 per nonmember. The $5 registration fee for spouses and students does not include papers.

Extra copies of papers will be sold at the meeting for $20 per set.

Further information and regis- tration details may be obtained by writing to R.L. Ward, 110 Avon- dale Circle, Severna Park, Md. 21146.

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Demonstrating an electronic mod- el of Avondale Shipyards' innova- tive new pipe fabricating facility are, left to right, Lee Rice presi- dent of Ogden Transportation,

Inc., Richard Brunner, executive vice president of Avondale, and

Albert Bossier, president of Avon- dale. Looking on is Stanley Fran- kel, vice president of parent com- pany, Ogden Corporation, which hosted a luncheon meeting at the

Whitehall Club, New York City,

November 8, for approximately 100 New York financial analysts.

The pipe construction model was unveiled for the first time, and shows a facility — the most ad- vanced of its kind in the world— designed to handle pipe sizes ranging from iy2 inches to 24 inches, applicable not only to ship- building but also to chemical, pe- trochemical, offshore gas and oil, and power generation industries.

Pipe processing is the second cost- liest operation in the building of a ship, the first being the fabri- cation of the hull itself, said Mr.

Bossier. With the use of the new plant, the pipe shaping work will be reduced in cost by about 39 percent. The actual facility will be first-stage completed next year at Avondale Shipyards' main yard in New Orleans, La., where Avon- dale is in its third successive year of record income with a current backlog of almost $1 billion. reason to put our equipment to work for you. iiGnng<.niinoii6os2sUA». Maritime Reporter/Engineering News