After the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild's float failure, Sébastien Josse returned to Spain. And now it is time for understanding. Because the bow torn off the bow of the starboard float is the one that was in the air, not in the water. What is passé??
It is the Gitana Team's design office that is responsible for understanding the reasons that led to the break-up. And for that, let's go digital. All on-board data is analyzed to verify successive accelerations and decelerations on all axes. The idea is to digitally reproduce the boat's behaviour at the time of the breakage to understand what happened.
The verdict is in: Maxi Edmond de Rothschild has suffered several violent longitudinal decelerations. With this violent stop, the float suddenly entered the water with a fairly large angle of attack and broke laterally
Because the novelty with these large trimarans is that they are able to sail at more than 40 knots, but in 4 m of swell. Then inevitably, the stops are more violent with different angles depending on the flight of the platform.
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