The Footy Design Competition is designed to give budding designers a chance to design build and operate a real vessel quickly and cheaply and to be able to feed back lessons learned from all phase of the project in a finite time for the modification or development of the next generation design. Teaching design to naval architects, marine and ocean engineers is challenging and it is believed that this Footy design, build and race competition may provide a useful tool in the teaching of design processes, feed-back, construction trade-offs and operational performance and enhancements.
The 2012 SNAME Design-Build Competition
• For the 2012 Annual Meeting of SNAME, members are invited to build a Footy boat
in accordance with the Class Rules.
• Rules and other information are available at http://footy.rcsailing.net/index.php
• Contestants will bring their Footies to the SNAME 2012 Annual Meeting (Footies
are quite portable) and the boats will be judged in the design-build competition
• Awards will be made in several categories
In addition to the Design-Build Competition, there will also be a Footy Regatta where “thumb sailors” will race their boats. This Regatta is open to any attendee at the SNAME Annual Meeting using existing Footy boats on loan from local Footy Model Yacht Squadrons.