Catalyst – Journal of yacht research
Catalyst is published every January, April, July & October, and is free to subscribing members of AYRS.
(For guidance on submitting material to Catalyst – click here)
Whilst they remain in stock, a limited number of paper copies of some back numbers are available at:
Nos 1-39: £4.00 (non-members), £3.50 (members),
No 40 et seq: £5.00 (non-members), £4.50 (members),
including surface postage.
All available Catalysts can be downloaded, using the links below, but for the more recent ones you will need a password to open the file, the fee for which is £3.50 – £5.00
Contents
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1 (Jan 2000) |
Weymouth Speedweek, Newport symposium, performance measurement, land sailing, kite sailing, solar & human power |
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2 (Jul 2000) |
Hydrofoil sailing, America’s Cup, performance modelling, experiments |
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3 (Jan 2001) |
Hull design, proas, ferro cement, seadogs, performance |
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4 (Apr 2001) |
Sunshine sailing canoe; Sailrocket; designing racing dinghies (pt 1) |
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5 (Jul 2001) |
Wind profiles, Costes hydrofoils, rotors, designing dinghies (pt 2) |
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6 (Oct 2001) |
Quarterline hull shapes, Revolution amphibious sailer, speedsailing |
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7 (Jan 2002) |
John Hogg prizes 2001 (Swingsail, glider-sail, windlogger); Swifgig |
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8 (Apr 2002) |
Special edition on Rigs, |
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9 (Jul 2002) |
Conveyor belt foils, Kcat70, Ergonomic oars |
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10 (Oct 2002) |
Speedweek, Hydrofoils, Windrigger cat, Downwind faster than the wind |
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11 (Jan 2003) |
John Hogg prizes 2002, Hull & keel design, windmills, Rigs |
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12 (Apr 2003) |
Rigs, Monofoil, Downwind faster than the wind |
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13 (Jul 2003) |
Hapa Stabilised Sail Craft, Smart Anchor, Mill-Prop paradigm, Balancing Act |
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14 (Oct 2003) |
Alice May;Automatic Headboard; Kite Sail system; Spar Buoys |
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15 (Jan 2004) |
John Hogg Prize 2003: Quatrefoil; Free Spirit trimaran; Gravity Shift keel; AYRS-Bolt; Polar Curves |
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16 (Apr 2004) |
Marine Engine; Water Sports for Disabled People; Paddle wheel design; Autonomous Wing-Sailed Catamaran |
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17 (Jul 2004) |
A New Mug; Fishtails, Raymotion, and Gondolas; Romy Rig; 50 Knot Barrier; Autonomous Wing-Sailed Catamaran (pt 2); Soft Wing Sails |
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18 (Oct 2004) |
Moths on Foils; Transition rig; 4 x the Wind; Buoyant Keel Boats & Boards |
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19 (Jan 2005) |
Outleader Kites;Downwind as fast as you like; Mini-Trimaran; A Monoplane Wingsail Cruising Trimaran; AYRS John Hogg Memorial Prize Award 2005; New world sailing speed record; Weymouth Speedweek;Case for a new mug; Proa crew wanted |
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20 (Apr 2005) |
Rushing About on Ivanpah 2004; Elementarry; The Wave Rocker; The Power Alternating Sailing (PAS) Principle and the Mill-Prop Principle; Kites & Sailing Records; Concept Boat, RIBEX |
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21 (Jul 2005) |
Freewing; Moorhen; A Bauer String Yacht Demonstration; IDEC; New proa launched; Rowing record; CATRI; WSSRC ratifications; Wincheetah; Broker wanted; DWFTTW; Drawing Long-Radius Curves |
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22 (Oct 2005) |
Coastal rowing gains direction; A new analysis of the Pacific crab claw rig; Self-righting multihulls; Design and construction of hulls for Windriggercat (WRC) 6800; More on DWFTTW; Weymouth Speedweek, Concept Boat competition; Quatrefoil, ROCAT; soft wingsails, DWFTTW |
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23 (Jan 2006) |
John Hogg Competition report; Innovative Self Steering Gear; Stabilising foils and variable geometry for proas; A different approach to Sail Design & Construction; Tri-foiler project update; |
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24 (Apr 2006) |
A Voyaging Canoe for Tikopia; A different approach to Sail Design & Construction; Stingray; Creating an Efficient Propeller; Rotorboat |
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25 (Jul 2006) |
A Bauer String Yacht Demonstration; A Double Land Yacht reveals Direct Sailing to be a Cam Action; Windfinder; How Wings and Sails Work; DDWFTTW Response to Peter Jefferson & Bernard Slotboom; Pocock’s ‘The Aeropleuistic Art’ |
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26 (Jan 2007) |
Biplane Hagedoorn Craft; Going for a Spin (or Sailing the Rotorboat); AYRS Weymouth Meeting; AYRS AGMs 2007 (minutes) and 2007 (notice) |
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27 (Apr 2007) |
Proposed Offshore Wind Power System using small floating generators; The Effective Surface (understanding DDWFTTW); Wave Energy Report; Champion (variable-geometry catamaran); Schickler SY X-24; Windward-Leeward faster than the wind; Go fly a Kite; Canting Keelboats. | ||
28 (Jul 2007) |
Special edition from Ken Upton: Wave power – the wave rocker; Circling kites gather more power; Conveyor foils – a high density renewable-energy collector; Traction kites and Eco-Reefs; Eco-wings Mk 4. |
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29 (Jan 2008) |
Ideas in favour of the Aerodynamic Hull (Antcliff); Kite-boat Project (Roche); Quatrefoil Update (Montgomery); Biplane Hagedoorn Craft Glencross); Electrotide (Mills); Newt – a totally amphibious landyacht (Glover); Multihulls – a design progression (Schofield). | ||
30 (Apr 2008) |
What have you done for AYRS? Howard Fund; Some thoughts about unpowered heavier-than-air aircraft; Sailing in the jet-stream; Single-oared sculling; Kenape-type kite systems; No entries yet for the John Hogg Prize! |
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31 (Jul 2008) |
The Delta Sail Project (Malcolm Henry); Turboships (Peter A Sharp); Sharp Rotor Kite; Powersail (Jon Montgomery); Low Aspect Ratio Hapa (Fred Ball); Percy Westwood (Catalyst Editor)1947 – 2008. |
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32 (Oct 2008) |
A Small Voyaging Boat (Sven Yrvind); Bris’ Sextant (Sven Yrvind); Understanding & Development of Aquaplaning Wheeled Sailing Yachts (Kim Fisher); Protecting Steel from Rust – a simple trial (Fred Ball) |
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33 (Jan 2009) |
John Hogg Prize for 2008 – Flex Foil Wind Generator (Jack Goodman); Delta-shaped Sails (Richard Dryden); A Captive Kite-Sail Design (J G Morley) |
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34 (Apr 2009) |
A Short Yuloh (David Shannon); |
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35 (Jul 2009) |
Single-oared sculling (Mike Bedwell); |
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36 (Oct 2009) |
From Table-top to Sea: A New Design of Downwind Sail; |
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37 (Jan 2010) |
Sail Modules for Larger Ships ; Poppy – a split junk rig ; Automatically Deflecting Fins for Sailing Yachts; The Howard Fund What it is, how AYRS will use it, and how you can apply for a grant ; AYRS John Hogg Prize Award 2010 |
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38 (Apr 2010) |
Development of the Morley Tethered Kite System ; Innovation in Rating Sail Areas ; Why doesn’t AYRS offer a Hagedoorn Centenary Prize? ; Sailing a Faster Course – Hypotheses from a study of polar performance curves; Meet the Committee – Graeme Ward, Sheila Fishwick |
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39 (Jul 2010) |
The UCD Roboboat; Sailing a faster course – Finding the Optimal Course to target; Variable Geometry Hapa; Meet the Committee – Slade Penoyre, Simon Fishwick |
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40 (Oct 2010) |
Speedweek 2010 Pictures; The Dolfin Project Pt 1 – The Hydrodynamic Simulator; Sailing a faster course – Integrating Results to Whole Legs; AYRS John Hogg Memorial Award 2011; Outboard Tilt Lock; Broad Horizons; Book reviews – “The RIB”, “Practical Dinghy Cruiser”, The Psychology of Sailing” Meet the Committee – John Perry, Michael Ellison |
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41 (Jan 2011) |
News – AC45 “small” cats; Weston Cat Open; Chasse Maree Lightweight Boat Design Contest; Sailing a Faster Course Part 4 – Upwind Calculations and Practical Methods; Members News – Seen at the Show; Andrew Bauer; Robert Downhill; AYRS Sweatshirts |
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42 (Apr 2011) |
The Launch of Vestas Sailrocket 2; Matt Layden’s Paradox design and the cheap roller-reefing standing lugsail; Sailing a Faster Course Part 5 – Downwind Calculation and Unsolved Mysteries; Discussion on Sailing a Faster Course – Go Straight (Paul Ashford) & Author’s Reply; Members News – North West England Local Group. |
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43 (Jul 2011) |
Water Craft Cordless Canoe Challenge; Hagedoorn – The Beginning; Is Variable Geometry Necessary for Ultimate Sailing?; Morley Tethered Kitesail Project – Interim Report; Assessment of a Monohull Vessel’s Stability with No Hydrostatic Data News – (Hydroptere, Ultimate Sailing Claimed); Letters; AYRS News |
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44 (Oct 2011) |
News -“P28 Gonet & Cie” revealed; The AC45 World Series comes to Plymouth – a personal view (Joddy Chapman); Improvement in Wave Propulsion Devices (Gustavo Tabakian); The new Kelsall Cat Rig (Derek Kelsall); AYRS News (Fred Ball, Mike Howard, John Perry); Letters – AYRS – Looking ahead |
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45 (Oct 2012) |
News – l’Hydroptere.ch, Sailrocket; ;Letters – Ultimate sailing, Vortex plates, Yullahs, etc; Final report on hinged foils (Robert Biegler); Are recent kitesurfer records being sailed at more efficient sailing angles than best recorded windsurfers? (Dave Culp) AYRS News – Meetings and other activities (Fred Ball, John Perry, et al) |
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46 (Jan 2013) |
Sailrocket 2 raises 500m Sailing Speed Record; Luderitz Speed Challenge 2012; Messenger – an exercise in Lean Design; Members Projects Meeting Janury 2012; Southampton Boat Show; Weymouth Speedweek; North West UK Local Group Meeting, December 2012. |
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47 (Oct 2013) |
Dick Newick, AYRS Vice-President; America’s Cup Technology; Three Small Proas; Detachable Watertight Pockets; My Catamaran (S Large); AYRS Activities in 2013 |
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AeroJunk (Paul McKay); AutoFlight (Dave Culp); Human-powered Craft (Mike Bedwell); How to judge racing results (Nico Boon); Frank Bailey |
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49 (May 2015) |
Modest Wingsails (Dave Culp); Wingsail Experiments (Peter Worsley); News from AYRS |
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50 (May 2015) |
Morley tethered Kite Sail – Final Report (Michael John Howard); |
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51 (Jan 2017) |
Multihull Capsize Recovery (Mark Hillman); Norwegian Blue (Robert Biegler); The Vampire Project – Why make it different? (William Sunnucks); The AYRS Website – https://www.ayrs.org (AYRS Webmaster) |
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52 (Nov 2017) |
Hyperwind Sailing on Snow, Ice, Land and Water (Barney Kenney); |
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53 (Mar 2018) |
KASALA 5,5m – An innovative seaworthy plywood micro-cruiser design (Alex Quertenmont); |
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54 (Dec 2018) |
Direct Manual Sheeting for Hyperwind Sailing (Barney Kenney); Yellow Alert! A surf rescue boat with an “H” cross-section hull configuration (Chris Watson); Windriggercat – an update (Ian Smith); An Adventure with CORREX (Mike Howard); Theoretical Optimization of the length of Surf Ski Kayaks – Abstract (Ralph William Baker); Microtransat Challenge 2018 – An application to the AYRS Howard Fund (Richard Walker) |
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55 (Oct 2019) |
Evolution of Scow-Design Dinghies (Ian Ward, Glide Free Designs); Tandem Yoloh (Mike Bedwell); Looking Forward to it (Chris Waite) |
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56 (Mar 2020) |
Practical Tow Testing (John Perry); Shape and Profile of a Common Sculling Oar (Alex Quertenmont); AYRS News – NWUK Local Group 15 June 2019 (Mike Howard), Basingstoke Canal Centre 21-22 September 2019 (John Perry), Thorpe Village Hall 3 November 2019 (John Perry); Catalyst Calendar. |
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57 (Oct 2020) |
An oscillating fin propulsion device (Alan Craig); A self trimming vertical axis windmill propelled catamaran (Giuseppe Gigliobianco); A Guide to Steering without a Rudder (Michael Keyworth); A theoretical model of a flat planing surface to determine lift and drag forces and the centre of effort (Steven Lynch); |
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58 (April 2021) |
Didier Costes (Stephane Rousson); Fred Ball Prize; Members Questionnaire Report; AYRS Facebook Group & AYRS YouTube Channel; Formation of Local Groups; Developing ‘Foot Rower’ (Mark Hillmann); An amphibious trimaran |
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59 (August 2021) |
HRH In Memorium; Fred Ball Prize – Update; Michael G Butterfield In Memorium; The Development of Local Groups; Facebook – Update; KASALA – The First Hundred Miles; Capturing The Wind; The Future for Plastic Yachts Part 2; Southampton Boat Show Preview; Weymouth Speedweek; News from our Local Groups; Catalyst Calendar. |
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A Searchable Index to Catalysts Nos 1-19 is here