The design process for motor yachts primarily relies on the experience of designers, who draw upon their knowledge gained from working on similar hull forms. However, when a new concept is to be developed, the experience garnered from standard platfo...
It is clear that yachting tourists are motivated to spend their leisure time at sea. However, few studies have determined the relationship between tourists’ motivation and satisfaction with yachting, and re-yachting intention. Furthermore, the...
The perceived acoustic comfort on board modern yachts has recently been the subject of specific attention by the most important classification societies, which have issued new guidelines and regulations for the evaluation of noise and vibrations. The...
Usually, the need for research arises when there is a discrepancy between the theoretical and practical data. For example, the RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) Rules describe two navigation areas for yachts: unrestricted navigation and a navigation ar...
The public health surveillance of yachts and pleasure boats is relevant to avoid and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. With the entry into force of the International Health Regulations 2005, the Ship Sanitation Exemption Certificate (SSEC) b...
The importance of comfort during transfer and stationing becomes a key performance parameter for large yacht design, on the same level as propulsive issues. Such a matter extends questions in terms of form and service demand to the motion behaviour o...
Autonomous land yachts can play a major role in the context of environmental monitoring, namely, in open, flat, windy regions, such as iced planes or sandy shorelines. This work addresses the design, modeling, and simulation of a land yacht probe equ...
The significant and ongoing growth of the yacht charter sector plays a crucial role in the tourism industry as a whole, especially in nautical tourism. This study provides a detailed analysis of the yacht charter market, focusing on the opportunities...
The study aims to identify key attributes driving yacht tourism and analyze their relative importance using conjoint analysis. This method quantifies attribute importance and utility values to evaluate their impact on consumer choices and optimize ma...
Clarifying the current constraints facing the development of yachting tourism in China is key to ensuring the healthy development of this niche industry. This study uses grounded theory as a theoretical basis to conduct qualitative research and appli...
Releasing the consumption potential of yachting tourism is important for marine economic development. The purpose of the study is to evaluate a comprehensive potential index for yachting tourism (based on consumption capacity, expenditure, quality, a...
In parallel with the developments in the yachting sector, the need for qualified yacht masters has increased. Their qualifications are important not only for meeting customers’ demands but also for ensuring maritime safety. In this direction, t...
Class 470 yacht attracts more and more attention at the World Championships. The hull hydrodynamics is important for winning the games. Hull draughts influence ship maneuverability, seakeeping, rapidity and stability. Numerical simulation by solving...
Within the fast paced digital transformation of the tourism and hospitality sector, the modalities of booking a tourist accommodation have been radically transformed by the uptake of digital business models and digital platforms. This study examines...
The crane installation on the deck of a yacht redistributes the stress field and affects the local structural integrity and performance. The safe operation of the yacht is associated with the optimal placement of the crane on the deck and the proper...
The IMO’s second-generation intact stability criteria (SGISc) have been applied to a set of seven megayacht units ranging from 40 m to 80 m. The application aims to evaluate their stability performance in a seaway. The assessment is based on tw...
Apart from extensive infrastructure protection, modern yacht ports should primarily provide vessels with navigational safety associated with their maneuvering on the approach fairway, as well as mooring in the port aquatory. For this reason, yachts e...
The maritime industry faces increasing pressure to improve energy efficiency, a challenge that extends to the luxury yacht sector. This study presents a comprehensive hydrodynamic assessment for retrofitting a bespoke Energy Saving Device (ESD) onto...
This paper explores applications of additive manufacturing (AM) for producing structural components in the yacht industry. Several case studies illustrate how AM is applied to create lightweight composite panels and complex geometries that are challe...
This study attempts to construct a framework of factors affecting the yachting tourists’ willingness to pay (WTP) in the context of COVID-19 regular prevention and control in Dalian, China. Relying on the framework of the extended theory of pla...
The rudder is an important appendage and used to adjust the course and balance the lateral displacement in the sailing regatta. RANSE (Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes Equations) was used to simulate the viscous flow field of the hull for 470 Class ya...
Modern design products are increasingly complex and emotionally significant, demanding versatile and collaborative customization. However, a literature and commercial review reveals a limited availability of flexible, multi-user, photorealistic Virtu...
Despite the high number of active small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in all sectors, current studies have barely developed investigations on the sustainability of their business models so far. The aim of this study was thus to bridge the gap between...
Nowadays, the industrial world is undergoing a disruptive transformation towards more environmentally sustainable solutions. In the blue economy, this new approach is not only expressed in the domain of actual vessels, but also in the development of...
This article deals with the issue of waste collection from yachts and tall ships that is important from the perspective of sustainable tourism. There are, of course, procedures that regulate the passing of waste by vessels, which also apply to touris...
The design of a flapping fins stabilization system for yachts at anchor (zero speed conditions) is presented in this study. The solution presented in this manuscript took inspiration from a solution proposed for the design of a biologically inspired...
Two Indian Ocean surgeon fish Paracanthurus hepatus individuals were observed near Saint-Raphaël (Provence, France, north-western Mediterranean Sea) in the late summer of 2024 in Posidonia oceanica seagrass and reef habitats. This species is ver...
In this paper, a tool able to support the sailing yacht designer during the early stage of the design process has been developed. Cubic Rational Bézier curves have been selected to describe the main curves defining the hull of a sailing yacht. The ad...
Considering the different structural strength requirements of different parts of fiberglass yachts, carbon fiber/glass fiber hybrid reinforcement can be applied to the skins of sandwich panels in special areas. This paper designs and prepares 12 foam...
Aquatic recreation significantly enhances well-being; however, individuals experiencing functional limitations remain frequently marginalized from this form of tourism due to infrastructural and environmental barriers. This study investigates the per...
With the increasing popularity of yachting sports and races comes the need to develop a more advanced and efficient propulsion device. Significant improvement can be made when using a mainly lift-driven propulsion source, known as a wing sail. This i...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate leisure satisfaction among outdoor sports participants in golf and yachting. Influence was also measured of recreation specialization on leisure satisfaction, and the effect of the relationship between lei...
In small vessels, for example, yachts, polymer–glass composites are mainly used for their construction. However, the disposal and/or recycling of composite units is very difficult. It is advisable to solve the problem of disposing of post-consu...
The use of geodetic and hydrographic systems, methods and measuring devices to obtain geospatial data enables integrated modeling of 3D space and related objects. Factors such as the seafloor relief of the marina and land infrastructure need to be co...
After being neglected for a long time, in the last years, ships have been recognized and studied as sound emitters. The sound energy they generate impacts the outside, but it can also affect the indoor quality of life if the environments are not prop...
Improving the propulsion efficiency of existing vessels is an effective approach to reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions without major structural modifications. This study presents a high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD)...
Internal waves are responsible for many important processes in the ocean environment (ocean ventilation, energy transfer from large-scale processes to turbulence, etc.). Our goal is to draw attention to the relatively little studied effect of interna...
We analyze the elements determining the sustainability of nautical tourism in selected Mediterranean countries (Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Italy and Turkey). The purpose of our research is to investigate the main obstacles to greater application of r...
The Strait of Messina poses unique challenges for small vessels due to strong currents and complex wave conditions, which critically affect structural integrity and operational safety. This study proposes an integrated methodology that combines seake...
Setting up anthropometric profiles for elite athletes in each sport, sport discipline, or specific sport positions could be a key element of sport selection processes. The main purpose of this study was to determine the anthropometric characteristics...
The present study examined the impact on island tourism development during the COVID-19 epidemic environment and infection risk by using Penghu as a case study. Using a mixed re-search methodology, 534 questionnaires were collected and analyzed using...
Grinding is a key physical element in America’s Cup sailing. This study aimed to describe kinematics and muscle activation patterns in relation to torque applied in forward and backward grinding. Ten male America’s Cup sailors (33.6 ± 5.7 years, 97.9...
The aim of this paper is to determine pillars for fostering nautical tourism based on the beliefs and attitudes that professionals in the sector have towards the particularities and difficulties that the market is going through. To achieve these goal...
The decarbonization of maritime transport has primarily targeted large vessels, leaving small craft largely dependent on fossil fuel despite their inherent use of wind propulsion. This study addresses that gap by designing and simulating a zero-emiss...
The work provides an economic sustainability and environmental impact analysis for the validation of a biocide-free antifouling coating for marine applications able to reduce fuel consumption during navigation, CO2 emissions, and the overall environm...
The body shapes of aquatic animals can ensure a laminar flow without boundary layer separation at rather high Reynolds numbers. The commercial efficiencies (drag-to-weight ratio) of similar hulls were estimated. The examples of neutrally buoyant vehi...
Reliable prediction of tunnel thruster performance under reverse, or off-design, reverse operating direction (ROD) conditions, is crucial for modern vessels that require bidirectional thrust from a single unit—such as yachts and offshore suppor...
The process of designing a sail can be a challenging task because of the difficulties in predicting the real aerodynamic performance. This is especially true in the case of downwind sails, where the evaluation of the real shapes and aerodynamic force...
The aim of this study was to prepare and characterize thin hybrid films on polyurethane-coated knitted fabrics and to achieve satisfactory color fastness to artificial light. Sol–gel-derived hybrid thin films were deposited via the dip-coating...
This paper is concerned with the application of computational intelligence techniques to the conceptual design and development of a large-scale floating settlement. The settlement in question is a design for the area of Urla, which is a rural tourist...
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