The sailing scoring system in yacht racing involves the use of abbreviations and acronyms to indicate the results of a race or series. Rule 90.3(a) gives the race committee responsibility for scoring a race or series, with the Low Point System being used unless the notice of race or sailing instructions contains a suggested mechanism for scoring at regattas. The winner is the boat with the lowest score at the end of the event or series of races.
Sailing terms and phrases refer to language specific to the sport of sailing, including terms related to boat parts. There has been extensive discussion about the requirements of race committees for scoring boats NSC in accordance with RRS 2021-24 rules A5.1 and A5.2. The TLE formulation used, “finishing place one more than the number of boats that did finish the race without a hearing seems to have a Sail Racing AbbreviationsCode,” means “No Declaration” (abbreviation NOD) and will receive a penalty.
When a competitor performs Race Officer or Patrol Boat duty for a race in the series, they will be awarded average points in the series. A boat that did not start, did not sail the course, did not finish, retired, or was disqualified shall be scored points for the finishing place one more than the number of competitors in that series plus 1.
In addition to scoring points, the scoring system also includes rules for boards on the same wave, coming in, and keeping clear. If neither a declaration nor late declaration form is completed, the boat will be scored No Declaration (abbreviation NOD) and will receive a penalty.
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When building a boat, it is the little things that matter. Indications of a quality build that give you confidence in the whole build.
I’m glad you did this and that most of your commenters appreciate this. I am retired now, but I spent 30 years in US industry, mostly as a Purchasing Manager. Between my various employers and the vendors I used and visited, I see here the same machines and some the the same brands of machinery I have seen over the last 4 decades. Most people have no idea how things are made. Raw material goes in one door, a miracle happens and the finish product magically appears. No disrespect to this manufacturer but I’ve seen this same level of expertise and craftmanship all over the world.
As an engineer, I found this article extremely interesting. Quality control, and quality assurance are evident. I thank you for the article, and congratulate you on your choice of RR2. It is that attention to detail, from the design process to the actual build that has impressed me on the manufacturers of the 1260, now the 1370, and the 1600. WELL DONE SEAWIND!!!
Awesome! Very well done, especially adding in the science describing how things rust! The quality of materials, including the quality of metals, and even the tiny nuances of one grade of stainless steel compared to another can make a big difference in the reliability and longevity of the boat and equipment.
Nick, I hope you realize that these seemingly mindless side tours hit yacht lovers exactly where they want, we love the details in everything. So please do NOT hesitate doing them. Now, my question… I have a bit of experience in SS, and I wonder why do they passivate before grinding the welds? Wouldn’t cleaning up the welds create new pockets of potential corrosion? I’ve visited Vietnam for work and wonder if your yacht will be launched in Vung Tau? It’s a lovely port and home of many expats.
I found that fascinating and I’m pretty far from being a nerd about most anything until it is the finished product. The level of detail is jaw-dropping when you consider how many millions of ideas are involved in even the simplest of today’s boat builds. It’s a long way from making a dugout canoe from a fallen tree! And even making one of those properly is really an art form.
This is so informative and interesting. I really appreciate your taking the time to explain about chrome and the precision that demonstrates quality. I’ll be looking more closely at the boats I’m shopping. Seawind is quite the beneficiary of this metal work. It makes their product stand alone. Can’t wait to see a finished 1370.
Mate, you nailed it!!!!!!!!…. I am just as much of a nerd when in comes to Stainless Steel on my boat not just because it looks good but because a well formed passive layer, after removal of carbides, oxides and nitrides by means of chemical etching, chemical passivation and mechanical polishing prevents corrosion longer. lovely lovely lovey
I once commented on a Dragonfly trimaran YT article that they were way too costly for what you got, esp as compared to a Corsair. Someone from the factory, with nose in the air, responded that it was because of more costly and superior, Danish labor. I pointed out that they were insulting a whole countries boatbuilding industry, and that the Vietnamese were at least as good from a quality standpoint. This article proves my point exactly. The quality control and attention to detail and safety are equal to any US manufacturing plant. (I have been in several.) Super interesting and feel free to “geek out” more! That superyacht bow roller was like a jewel.
We had stainless steel expert on board in Spain who instantly knew our boat was made in Thailand (even though everyone usually thinks it’s a Colin Archer from Norway) He said Thailand and Vietnam are the only places in the world that produce Stainless to that standard, nice to know. As you like your geekery Nick, are they calling your stainless 316, 316Ti or 316L? The formula you gave has no Titanium so I guess not 316Ti but it seems to be in between the spec for straight 316 and 316L (low carbon) The 316L would be better at sea especially in warm water (All 316’s are not equal!)
Cleanest factory I ever saw, some factories in the uk I worked in could be classed as pre second world war set ups. The far east have taken British skills to another level and we sat back and watched hence the new Ruby Rose is being built out there and not in the UK. This article is an eye opener but alas we will not learn …we never do.
Definitely interesting and a good suggestion … with most bigger and built things there is a detail-test as to the quality. The weld.polishing certainly is one such test! Personal remark: I can see what you did with the music in this article, and why. But it did hinder my concentration. Perhaps it is just me, I thought I’d mention it.
Always nice to get a inside look into manufacturing. Some minor remarks though, when you are talking about milling at around 4 minutes, that is actually a lathe turning products (the mill is the machine at 3:40). the cutting machine you are showing is a laser cutter, not a plasma cutter. A plasma cutter is far inferior to a laser and certainly not capable of micron precision, you only ever use a plasma cutter if you are on a tight budget or if you need to cut thick plates (more than 20mm thick). I do agree this looks like a proper machine workshop with very high standards. Hope these manufacturing article’s keep on coming, it is really nice to see all the different disciplines that are required to built a boat.
Well, THIS exceeded my expectations by a million? Very cool, NOT in Ho Chi Minh City- a genuine effort to film- very cool. Obviously, we are able to ‘geek out’ with you on the level of perfection needed to justify the high price of catamarans these days! Awesome & I look forward to more quick- down & dirty- episodes like this! Thanks a million. Gonna need to check your other resources (NOT Patreon, my wallet has springs like a bear trap) cuz I so enjoy everything boat about the build. I don’t care about what you eat, where you party, etc…
Love the enthusiasm. I’m not in the world of boats but it’s the level of detail I would expect from a good industrial fabrication shop. From a technical POV the main reason to grind back the welds would be to do non destructive testing which I would have expected to see some of, maybe just of camera?
Now I love this stuff! I love seeing How it’s made, why it is made, and for where it is made for the job it is for. And how long it should last. This is what I believe we all ben waiting for. Is to see the quality of the products in the Boat. And the workmanship that goes in to building the Boat. This in my opinion is what sales the Boat. When people can see how it is made makes them what the product. Like Harley Davison, Porsche, or Lamborghini. So Thank You for this article. I loved Every 13 minutes of it. The only sad thing is it went by so fast. Maybe I am being greedy But I want more. Sorry for that. Ok until next week, I will be on the edge of my seat here on my lanai on the Big Island of Hawaii waiting for your next article. Thank You and Aloha!
Beautiful mate Pick up some spares while you’re in the factory nick, buy some. The factory gets the price on those shower drain pumps and water pressure pumps if you’re able spare parts up mate if you can and we’re having lots of ongoing problems ventilation and draining the black water tank maybe bigger drain valves or bigger vents or maybe even a powered pump to drain black water would be great if possible . It’s an ongoing issue for us but maybe they’ve resolved it ?
Nice workshop. I worked for a company that used to make pressure vessels for nuclear plants. The certified welders working on those parts were among the highest paid people in the company. They had to make perfect continuous weld x-ray checked. The polishing job after that was simply stunning. It definitely art. Great to see you will get that quality on your boat! BTW, your title song loop in the background was kind of distracting.
A great description of the stainless work and I’m glad to see the use of 316 series stainless rather than a less corrosion resistant grade of stainless. This article series must be keeping your minds occupied while awaiting the delivery of RR-II. I’m sure your looking forward to seeing the stainless work on the boat. Lol know I am. Stay safe thanks for the detailed build articles really enjoyable content.
Great article, remembering what it was like from our circumnavigation in the 1980s, presently cruising the Bahamas. My wife’s book is a good read, published by Austin Macauley of New York, literally a fictional story of sailing and adventure: “Seychelle and the Cannabis Yachties”. It is very entertaining, hoping you will give it a read.
I guess I am nerdy also. Liked the article. That factory is putting out first class product. Just a note on stainless steel. Stainless steel should be thought of as stain – less steel. It is generally protected against rust, but in certain situations can begin to rust / corrode.\r Corrosion or rusting resistance varies with the grade or composition of the stainless. 316 is generally very good for marine applications.\r Exposure to strong chorides, attachement to a dissimilar metals such as iron, brass, etc. are the two most common causes.\r There are passivity treatments that can increase rust and corrosion resistance.
Definitely good to see the attention to detail and quality! It is call Stain-less, not stain free for a reason though. This is why I like the Balance 526’s solution to use composite everywhere possible and not stainless steel, a much more elegant solution. I wonder if they considered this option since it is built in Vietnam with lower labor rates.
Nick I must say you’re going to know about everything that’s gone into RR2 when it’s launched! When something happens you’ll know exactly where to look and what to do about it – most of us only get to know our boats properly after 10 years at the helm! I was worried that you were going to break that laser and stop the machine during your outtro 😂
Fantastic, nerd out for proper manufacturing (right up there with vehicle production at a certain huge vehicle producer in Germany). Love the auto shut-off safety system. Acid wash area appears the most vulnerable area of ops: Acid barrier in run-off sumps? Acid and concrete are a matter of time before you have Chromium 3 or Chromium 6 in your groundwater (nerd science stuff and this is the same vulnerability that has as in ‘Western’ manufacturing facilities involving plating solutions and acid baths). The dream… a proper work shop!
Electropolishing? This is good for insidie and outside. Where you cannot see. It is the reverse of electroplating, the micro sharp bits are disolved into solution with the aide of electric current. Much better than hand finishing for the hard to get at places. You still have to blend the welds. The heat affected zone is the weakest part of the weld, there is also a micro crack between the parent metal and the weld metal, this has to be blended out or it will be a site for stress corrosion cracking. Check out sulphur reducing bacteria and stress corrosion cracking, they can be nasty to stainless steel under load. These beasties are why stainless chain is a bad idea, with the flash butt weld and the incipient crack near the heat affected zone they get right in.
Might be a good idea to mention the downsides of stainless steel, specifically chloride corrosion cracking, although there are others. Many different kinds of stainless have been developed over the past years to deal with materials problems, such as relatively weak strength or machining limitations or lattice corrosion. The choice of the proper alloy is essential for performance, at least as important as polishing welds. For marine oil/gas applications, so-called duplex and super-duplex steels are available which both increase strength and vastly increase corrosion resistance. One example is 2205 (duplex alloy) another is 2507 (super-duplex). Cost might be twice as high as 304 and it needs to be very carefully worked, but for small critical pieces the duplexes might be worth looking at, if it’s going to be submerged for long periods of time especially in standing water. Monel nickel alloy is also interesting and has been around for a long time but for a direct comparison to specialty stainless you’d have to contact a supplier.
The ability to make identical parts for boats started…. In Portsmouth Dockyard. A Frenchman, Marc Brunel, father of the more famous Isombard Kingdom Brunel, wanted a way to come to England to marry his beloved Sophie an English girl he met when the two of them were fleeing from the French Revolution. During a chance meeting over dinner in New York with Admiral Bentham He learned of the difficulties the British Navy were having in getting enough ships blocks. Every time the Royal Navy wanted to fight the French the Taylor family of Southampton, who whittled each block by hand, put the prices up. Brunel realised he could design machines to make ships blocks and if he could sell the idea to the Navy then he could come to England and marry Sophie, which is more or less what happened. So Portsmouth dockyard became the site of the first mass production facility in the world and the Taylor family became the first workers in history to be made redundant through automation.
Nice article! Optical bars and other lockout measures are pretty standard in the West. I’ve designed automotive transmission assembly machines and have also been cursed at by machinists who have to make the parts I designed. Par for the course. One tries to DFM/DFA (design for manufacturing/assembly) as much as possible, but sometimes a part is going to just be difficult..
Well to those who think you need to get back to sailing, I don’t know what they expect you to sail? At this point, your boat isn’t exactly livable, let alone seaworthy! I actually thought it was quite interesting, and I watched it with a migraine. I usually can’t watch a full article when I have a migraine, and I watched this one.
This is to Nick the Geek . Thank you, I’m the inventor of stainless steal. I was a kid, when I discovered how to tighten the orbit in the making of plan steal. Stainless steal, was a highly classified project. NASA, DOD, I was put in charge of (( project white Mars 1535 )) the code name back in 1967 for stainless steal. WHITE, M.A.R.S. Mars stands for, ( m,atter a,t r,everse s,tate ), Mars 1535, white, is the color of heat, that I discovered, molten, coka. For, a X Y, trilla second, matter, stoped spinning, one way and switched to a reverse state of spin. For 250 of the worlds smartest people. What I proved and discovered, changed the world as we new it. Stainless was first used in NUKLER power plants, changing, hot plants to cold water plants. My stainless, changed all NUKLER power. All navy subs, I founded a firm that built NUKLER power plants world WIDE. In the USA we handed off to the federal GOVERMENT here to form the branch of goverment called the NRC. I’m not famous, because I always, worked behind locked doors on CLASSFIELD everything. So, nick, the geek, thanks for seeing, how cool stainless steal is. I won the Nobel peace prize in science. But because I could not recive it publicy. I was passed over…
While it is very true that we must protect the environment by being more careful with how we spend our resources, how we dispose or recycle and how much we consume in general, a article like this helps highlight how misguided some people are when they hammer on about how “rich” people should stop consuming and living the lives they do; here we see the production of a few tiny pieces of a boat and look at the manpower required to make those – including the manpower we don’t see here in R&D, administration, pre-production, storage, payment and transportation. Then amplify this to all things manufactured and you begin to realize how billions of people around the world could end up unemployed and dirt poor if we did not consume. As long as there is population growth we need economic growth and that means consuming more.
The Quality of work and pieces of equipment produced in the East can equal and surpass Western quality requirements. The problem is not in the workmanship and quality but in the requirement of businesses to maximize profits and bonuses for the management team. If the use of a high carbon part in a low carbon application will result in an increase in profit, they will use a low quality part. So, it has always depended on management as to what the resulting product looks like.
I appreciate the desire to hype and can recognize the quality and craftsmanship of what they’re doing here. But I’m really doubtful that these tube bends were all “micron level” precise and repeatable with that level of precision, especially since it seems that the band saws they used were not CNC, and the assembly was done with jigs and welded was by hand, some without jigs. Having done some of this myself, I’m sure their parts are precise enough to the eye and for the purpose of fitting it on a boat (which itself isn’t going to have all the holes and shapes/curves exactly as per the CAD model). But I really doubt that they’re “micron level” type of precise. In particular, I don’t think it would make sense to achieve this level of precision to begin with, it would be a waste of time and money. =P All that said, and that was me just being nitpicky :), it’s super cool to watch and I really appreciate that you went there and recorded this. Please continue and do more of it!
I understand you have a commercial agreement with Seawind and you don’t want to jeopardize that relationship, but I’m missing the more critical (and honest) views your earlier catamaran review articles had. Surely not everything is mind blowing, amazing, wonderful, perfect, … For example, there is no such thing as “micron perfect” tube bending. The width of a hair is ~50 μm. Do you really believe these machines offer precision at the level of the size of a bacteria? Or what about the usage of 316 steel? Surely it’s common for marine purposes, but there are alternatives. What about using fiberglass, or even a different alloy like Nitronic? These articles are starting to look like advertorials, and should be marked as such.