The latest news
Current state of the web site
Current state of the Java computer programs
Sept-2014
Aug-17-2014
Aug-11-2014
Aug-07-2014
- only about 8% complete
- much of the content under menu is missing
- organization is chaotic
- developing plots in the R Programming Language using the package "GGPLOT2"
- solutions for dynamic operations is still being developed on Java
- solution techniques to solve the equations are being added and streamlined
- nested Golden Rectangle Search algorithm is evolving
- having issues with uni-modal convergence of the forces function while sailing in a specific direction
- when the boom is eased the wing drag increases dramatically and the sail lift diminishes quickly
- the discontinuous force function at this speed causes non convergence
Sept-2014
- the aerodynamics page is taking shape
- added page on Ice
- main menu page is complete
- changed order of pages
- added meat on links page
- added design page and eliminated downloads page
Aug-17-2014
- added Java tab
- added Dynamics tab
- tweaked About tab
- changed blog title font to Trebuche
Aug-11-2014
- use Menu tab to access most of site content
- added News tab
- completed About tab
Aug-07-2014
- chose the Theme
- chose Blog Title and Description
- chose Picture Window template
- used picture of Madison Lake Monona as the background
- fine tuned the colors
Aug-04-2014
- site created at BlogSpot
- chose Blog Title and Description
To-Do Items
- develop graph of cL, cD, boomEase
- use R to build graphs rather than JAVA
- graph of BoatSpeed for given angle to have netforce of zero
- assume a given direction
- if speed is too great forcing hiking then you must ease on boom to elim hike
- this function must be smoothly convex
