Authors:
P. De Girolamo
1
;
A. Romano
1
;
G. Bellotti
2
;
A. Pezzoli
3
;
A. Boscolo
3
;
M. Crespi
1
;
A. Mazzoni
1
;
M. Di Risio
4
;
D. Pasquali
4
;
L. Franco
2
and
P. Sammarco
5
Affiliations:
1
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
;
2
Università di Roma Tre, Italy
;
3
Politecnico di Torino & Università di Torino, Italy
;
4
Università dell’Aquila, Italy
;
5
Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Keyword(s):
Sailboat, Waves, Wind, Forecast.
Abstract:
On October 19, 2014 Matteo Miceli, a known Italian oceanic sailor, left the Port of Riva di Traiano (Rome,
IT) with the sailboat ECO40, an Italian vessel, for the Roma Ocean World Project. This ambitious challenge
consists in a non-stop sailing alone around the World in energy and food self-sufficiency. ECO40 is a Class
40 oceanic vessel (LOA of 12,0 m) that has been equipped with a data acquisition system for both the metocean
parameters recorded on-board (i.e. apparent and real wind speed and wind direction, atmospheric
pressure, current velocity, air and sea temperature, etc.) and the kinematic characteristics of the boat itself
(i.e. speed and course over ground). Furthermore, the boat has been equipped with a three high precision
GPS receivers, provided by Leica Geosystem, for measuring the movements of the boat and with an inertial
platform. Due to these high-precision instruments it has been possible to fully measure and characterize the
six degrees of freedom of the boat, and
accordingly to use the boat as a “sailing wave buoy”. In this paper
we present the first analysis of the met-ocean data measured by the boat during the storm occurred in the
Gulf of Lion on October 21-22, 2014 that ECO40 faced just few days after its departure.
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