#millsdesign – Wicklow yacht designer Mark Mills has unveiled details of the 'MAT1180', a next-generation IRC race boat design.

The interest says Mills was to investigate the changes in IRC affecting lighter designs in the 39' size range.

After a CFD program covering more than 20 hulls, Mills and his team produced a powerful hull shape that offers low drag when upright in light airs with increasing stability as the hull form immerses with heel in stronger winds. It became clear, says Mills, that there was 'space in IRC for an aggressively light and fast design if well-engineered and well-built to produce the right weight and distribution of mass'.

More on the Mills site here