OCD Open 60 Acciona100% Eco-Powered Build.mov

The Owen Clarke designed Acciona 100% Eco-Powered is the first IMOCA 60 zero emissions ocean racing yacht, which is to say she will be racing the Vendee Globe without fossil fuels (diesel typically) of any kind aboard. Where an IMOCA 60 would normally have a diesel engine for auxiliary drive and power generation this has been designed out and replaced by an electric motor and batteries charged by a system of solar, wind and hydro-generators.
With her deck trench, keel stepped rig, and innovative structural engineering this radical vessel also breaks new ground in the IMOCA class as her OCD forebears have done before:
Kingfisher: first Open 60 with central ballast and the now familiar three forestay set up.
Ecover 2: first of the masthead Open 60's and first to use halyard locks and a removable forestay
Temenos: first offshore race boat to be built with a significant % of Kevlar honeycomb core
Ecover3/Aviva: first Open 60 to be modelled at 1/3rd scale and to incorporate an interceptor system
Acciona 100% Eco-Powered is the result of collaboration and enormous effort of the Acciona project team, builders/suppliers and was again co-designed with American designer Clay Oliver along with the now familiar OCD team of associates; including UK based structural engineers SP Gurit. Michel Kermarec and Giorgio Provinciali (both BMW Oracle) provided the CFD muscle that saw a computer simulated analysis of the design run in parallel with the testing of six 1/7th scale and a 1/3rd scale tank test model overseen by Ian Campbell of the Wolfson Unit.

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