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On-the-water testing and design iterations identified numerous ways to improve the USNA SailBots, resulting in increased speed, reduced power consumption, greater maneuverability, increased power generation of the existing boats and the development of a new boat. Projects included a second-generation voyaging hull and balanced rig, improved bulb, keel and rudder/skeg designs, analysis of multihulls, incorporation of a wind turbine and solar panels for theoretically unlimited voyage duration and a “jibe-only” maneuverability code. On-the-water testing included a 21-nautical mile voyage and oceanographic bottom profiling. The result is an improvement of the probability of success of a transatlantic voyage from last year’s 58% to nearly 90% and the reduction in expected time from 19.4 days to 16.9 days.
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Miller, P.H., Hamlet, M., Rossman, J. (2013). Continuous Improvements to USNA SailBots for Inshore Racing and Offshore Voyaging. In: Sauzé, C., Finnis, J. (eds) Robotic Sailing 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33084-1_5
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