Sail Away

This unit explores the role of engineering, physics, and mathematics in sail and boat design.

You will design a small scale sail boat to compete in a variety of competitions, including:

• Speed
• Stability
  
• Weight transfer
• General purpose
  

In order to be successful and receive a grade you can be proud of, you should:

• Design and describe a hull for a sailboat. 100 points.
  
• You should give support for why you are designing the hull in the design you have chosen. Specifically, will your hull be designed for a specific competition, or for the general purpose Grand Prize? Give your reasoning that supports your design and utilize information you have gathered to support your design approach

• Describe the process of using Autodesk Inventor 80 points
  
• What buttons you pushed, what shapes you used, how you connected those shapes, and what commands you made in the software to create the final product.
• This hull shape does not need to include the bow, just the hull, transom, and keel shape.

• Create a sketch of the hull in your engineering notebook 40 points
  
• This should include four perspectives:
• The back end: transom
• The bottom: the hull
• The side view: the gunwales
• The top view: the deck
• This should include the measures and descriptions of how you might construct the boat from foam.

• Create a 4 perspective technical drawing of your boat hull 60 points
  
• Create a technical drawing of your sail and describe the measures and materials you will use to build it and why.
• Use the vocabulary in your reasoning and design description
  
• Construct the boat based upon your design 100 points
  
• Test and refine your design
• keep notes and track your design and construction
• measure times, weights, and degree of turbulence and average these.
  
• create a graph that displays the distribution of the tracked measurements
  
• Construct the boat and answer the questions in the Sail Away Packet 60 points
  
• Race the boat 40 points
  
• Reflect and describe your experience 60 points
  
• Take the vocabulary quiz
• Take the conceptual quiz describing how wind and water effect boat design 20 points
  
• Post your measurements and charted averages, a picture of the boat, your team, and post it on your blog 60 points
  
• Make sure that you post a description of the design process and use the vocabulary

Total points available: 640