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What an incredible weekend in Portsmouth for the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series!! As the Solent delivered some spectacular racing, Land Rover BAR managed to win the event and jumped up to first place in the overall standings for the "big" event in Bermuda. Reasonable smiles on the Cape Horn Engineering team during SundayRead more
Land Rover BAR take second place in Chicago! Now second overall going into Portsmouth in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series. Back home in the team base in Portsmouth we are continuing in the design team to increase yacht performance. Photo: Sailor team at podium. Photo credit Land Rover BAR.
At our client Land Rover BAR we have been very busy and just passed another milestone – the team launched their latest test boat ‘T3’ last week that brings us one step closer to the final race boat. At Cape Horn Engineering we are proud to work with Land Rover BAR on CFD analysis forRead more
Enfant Terrible Minoan Lines and Low Noise II are the new 2015 ORC World Champions in class A and C. Cape Horn Engineering is proud of the result, having been involved in the development of both boats. Enfant Terrible is a TP52 from 2008, the owner Alberto Rossi consulted us for CFD analysis, performance predictionRead more
Congratulations to Sir Keith Mills and his Invictus Team as well as to designer Jason Ker on their Round the Island Race win in their brand new Ker40+. We are very proud to see that the CFD simulations carried out by Cape Horn Engineering in combination with Ker’s innovative optimisation methods resulted in a winningRead more
Cape Horn Engineering has secured a new contract with Ben Ainslie Racing and has become a Portsmouth-based Ltd. What began as a cooperation a few years ago has now culminated in a solid new partnership between Rodrigo Azcueta, the founder of CHE, and Matteo Ledri and PLUS Italy. Together they will spear-head BAR´s CFD activitiesRead more
Three In A Row! Congratulations to Groupama Sailing Team for winning the Volvo Ocean Race 2011/2012. Cape Horn Engineering adds up another success to the wins of ABN Amro and Ericsson in the previous two editions of the race. Read More on Volvo Ocean Race homepage.
ONE, TWO, THREE! Our three boats fill the podium in Auckland after sweeping leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011/2012! This moves Groupama Sailing Team into second place overall, 5 points ahead of Camper/ETNZ. Read More on Volvo Ocean Race homepage.
Team Telefónica wins the third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011/2012 having already won the previous 2 ocean legs and the in-port regatta at Cape Town. Team Telefónica leads the scoreboard with 95 points, 15 points more than the 2nd placed team. CHE was responsible for the complete Hydro & Aero CFD design programRead more
Cape Horn Engineering starts working for Artemis Racing Team, Challenger of Record for the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco 2013. CHE runs the complete Hydro & Aero CFD design program for Artemis Racing Team. This includes Hull, Appendage, Soft Sail, Wing and Windage studies.