Tornado-Cat
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I did not have time to finish the translation, here it is, really worth reading it.
Link: https://voilesetvoiliers.ouest-france.fr/regate/coupe-de-l-america/america-s-cup-guillaume-verdier-du-vendee-globe-a-la-coupe-de-l-america-sur-tous-les-fronts-16505d9a-7daf-11eb-a530-8257a05e6295?fbclid=IwAR1NxsAj3wAuWdzn6_P7iVTxshZyq76ZeZcZfnogKPj0O9F0JBzZQrROne8
What the secret of TNZ success
- When I begun in 2010 what really asthonished me was the horizontal organization, people can speak, there is no real boss. It has advantages but it can be the mess sometimes too, nobody is responsible of anything and everybody responsible for everyting. It works with a small structure, it is not a pyramidal but horizontal structure.
- The is no restriction to possibility to speak, sailors are integrated to the design team. They often take the decision. They are part of the design meetings.
- When we decide the piece to design we give ourself a time table and we don’t come back on our decision, we finish the construction as decided. In other places people sometimes come back on their decisions and want modification before finish which causes further delays, not here.
- We don’t subcontract the construction of the boat, it’s integrated in the team to we control it directly
The simulator
- The simulator took less place that in the previous edition
- We did less design on the simulator than the last time, we did more fondamental design
- We modified the simulator
- Some speak about artificial intelligence, in fact it’s not ture it’s everything but intelligent and very artificial. However we have many persons working on scripts in order to automatize the calcules
- We use the artificial intelligence for foil profile. We give an objective of lift on a section of the foil, or an objective of ratio of lift vs drag + a few variables. We let the computer work all night, it will draw a part of the section. Then the computer tells what section is best when we give it a criteria. So in fact the machine does what we ask it but if we think well ourself we can do the same. We have to think and not let the machines do stupidly any objective or it can be very dangerous
How do you find your ideas?
- We learn the different knoledge in different fields like paragliders who need loft of lift or wing profile of aerobatic plane who need a lot of tolerance to the requirements.
- We mix all that, we have to look at what is done in other fields of aerodynamics. We are lucky as we can find everything on the net now, NASA studies, European Space Agency.
- Everything is here and for free. When I remember that when I began to work I had to go and try to buy some book in bookstores. We can even fin Excel sheets with lift/drag, cavitation calcules. All students work on that in all universities
Is there a Verdier method ?
- No, I work from home, we are a group of architect working from home, the lock down had had no impact. I don’t like working in an office with people around, I prefer working alone.
Do you have a way to approach a project ?
- Yes, but I can’t tell it is the good one. When I am asked to work on a design I like to work on the full project and I have a feedback loop very quickly, I draw my design very quickly. In some other methods differents persons work on different bricks of the pyramid and it takes months. For me I draw the AC boat in 3 weeks, I judge it, I see the caveouts and do another loop immediately. I want to go quickly otherwise we spend too much time on a detail and another, and another, for me I want to work on the global vision and refine it at each loop.
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