Mills Design Ltd. was started by Mark Mills with a belief that a small team maintaining a focus on racing yacht performance assisted by leading specialists in fields such as engineering or CFD can offer the client the best outcome both from a performance and a cost standpoint. With designs such as the Mini-Maxi winners Alegre and Alegre 3, custom IRC champions such as Tiamat and Mariners Cove, and production successes with DK, MAT, and Summit Yachts Mills Design has shown consistently that their pedigree under IRC is unrivalled.

 

Gurit has a track record of innovation in the composites industry spanning 30 years. From engineering the first advanced composite sailing boat, patented material technology such as SPRINT®, wind turbine blade tooling capability for moulds up to 70m, and Class A carbon fibre body panel manufacture for the automotive industry, Gurit is a proven partner whatever your challenge. Gurit's heritage lies in engineering high performance yachts such as Americas Cup, Open 60's and Volvo 70's. However, over the past 30 or so years, Gurit has been involved with almost every type of marine craft including military power boats, production cruisers, and some of the world's most spectacular superyachts. Whilst Gurit is most widely recognised for its marine expertise, the team has considerable experience in the provision of innovative engineering solutions to many different structures, some of which have never been tackled in composites before.

KND Sailing Performance is a firm based in Valencia headed by partners Dimitri Nicolopoulos,Roland Kleiter, and Cyrille Drouillet. They offer CFD expertise using both RANS and theDasBoot panel code, VPP analysis using the North Sails VPP, and offer their own performanceanalysis software and services to leading campaigns such as Ran, Bella Mente, Quantum Racing,Luna Rossa, Artemis, and Volvo winner Groupama to evaluate the logged on-the-waterperformance against the designs potential, closing the design loop in a very powerful way that isnot possible elsewhere.