PROJECT BRIEF
By McKenzie Wilson and Jim Teeters
The Sailing Yacht Research Foundation (SYRF) is publicly sharing the design of a 14 Meter wide and light hull. SYRF hopes that the entire sailing community will use this as an educational exercise to better understand the capabilities and limitations of current performance prediction tools.
The 14M Project was conceived as a follow up from the 2015 SYRF Wide Light Project, which provided the design and research community with a means of validating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes against a towing tank model. By making public the hull surface files and rig dimensions, SYRF hopes that designers and researchers can once again collaborate to improve their understanding of CFD’s ability to accurately predict the performance of wide and light designs.
SYRF’s Technical Director, Jim Teeters, worked with members of the SYRF Advisory Council, including Adolfo Carrau of Botin Partners, to produce a design that reflects the current trends in yacht design both in style and in size. With most new wide and light designs falling into the Fast40+ or TP52 class, and with the Wide Light project already having utilized a 72-foot design, the Advisory Council selected 46 feet (14 meters) as the optimal length for the new design.
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SYRF and NUMECA Fine/Marine offered a CFD seminars in May 2017 in Newport, RI for interested participants. The seminar provided free access to NUMECA's cloud-based CFD solution and walk participants through the 14M Model Hull as a test case.
SYRF will post results from the NUMECA seminar during the summer of 2017.
PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
The SYRF 14 Meter Project is open to ALL participants. If you would like to have your name listed and results shared through the SYRF website, contact McKenzie Wilson.
Keep checking in here throughout 2017 as the participant list is updated!
Software | Contributor | Affiliation | Type |
FINE™/Marine | NUMECA | NUMECA | RANS |
TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
MODEL DIMENSIONS
Hull Dimensions
SYRF 14 Meter Model | Metric |
Overall length | 14 m |
Length-Volume-Ration (LVR) | 7.25 |
Beam-Length Ratio (BVR) | 0.3 |
Draft/LOA | 0.24 |
Maximum beam | 4.20 m |
Volume ST | 7.201 |
Displacement ST | 7384 kg |
Volume MT | 5.715 |
Displacement MT | 5860 kg |
VCG ST Datum | -1.000 |

Rig Dimensions
SYRF 14 Meter Model | Metric |
IG | 19.00 m |
ISP | 21.500 m |
MW | 0.250 m |
GO | 0.250 m |
SPS | 0.000 m |
J | 5.600 m |
P | 19.500 m |
E | 6.300 m |
FSP | 0.100 m |
SPL/TPS | 8,200 m |
BAS | 1.900 m |
BD | 0.130 m |
MDT1 | 0.130 m |
MDL1 | 0.265 m |
MDT2 | 0.075 m |
MDL2 | 0.150 m |
TL | 2.150 m |

PROJECT FILES
IGS Surface Files
RHINO File
Rig, Hull, & Sail Dimensions

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