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High performance sailing
Structural monitoring systems that turn load data into design and performance decisions.
High-performance sailing platforms push structural and hydrodynamic boundaries where simulation reaches its limits — From America’s Cup foil monitoring to hydrofoil boats, real load data is the difference between performance and failure.
Battle-tested at the America’s Cup, at Inalia we design and deploy tailored structural monitoring systems to measure what foils, hulls, appendages, masts and sails actually experience under racing conditions — delivering real load, deformed shapes, hydrodynamic performance and structural insight to support design validation, model correlation, and performance optimization.
“Once instrumentation is installed, adjustments are not straightforward. Missing structural information cannot be reconstructed afterwards”
— INALIA Engineering philosophy
This is why we invest heavily in the pre-measurement phase. A well-designed monitoring campaign with a short duration delivers more structural insight than a long campaign built on an unclear strategy. Our projects in the America’s Cup, offshore wind, and wave energy have consistently validated this principle.
We offer
Foils monitoring and simulation
Battle-proven at the 37th America’s Cup and across the naval sector, we design and integrate tailored structural monitoring systems — combining fibre optics (FBG), IMUs, and accelerometers — to measure what foils actually experience in operation, closing the loop between design assumptions and real structural behavior.
Real shape reconstruction:
- Loads and bending moments
- Pressure distribution
- Foil analysis: CL
- Digital twin
- Structural assessment based on field data for performance optimisation
Hull structural monitoring
Delivered as a modular, vessel-adaptable system —from sensor layout definition and installation to continuous monitoring and expert structural interpretation.
We instrument ship hulls at critical cross-sections to measure real bending moments under actual operating conditions —delivering:
- Real-time stress data and global bending moment maps
- Slamming loads and stresses
- Structural utilization levels and alerts against design limits
- Load correlation with sea state and operational conditions
- Fatigue histograms and hull fatigue assessment supported by FEM
- Dashboard visualization with customizable detail and API integration into vessel management systems
Appendages, daggerboards, rudder structural monitoring
We offer tailored and turn-key structural monitoring solutions to measure real loads, vibrations, dynamics, and fatigue histograms under actual operating conditions — delivering:
- Real loads, bending moments, and torsion
- Dynamics
- Structural assessment
- Fatigue histograms
- Dashboard visualisation with API integration into vessel management systems
Composite, aluminium or steel parts monitoring
Experience instrumenting structurally critical components across composite, aluminium, and steel construction — we adapt sensor installation methodology, and data interpretation to the specific material.
Custom instrumentation systems, including tailored sensor layouts and data acquisition platforms adapted to each prototype.Installation and commissioning in real environments, including offshore, maritime, and complex industrial settings.
- Real-time data capture and secure transmission, enabling continuous monitoring under operational or accelerated conditions
- Advanced analysis and reporting, structural performance, complex load relationships (manoeuvre-correlated events), operational behaviour assessment, and structural safety margins
- Digital twin creation, allowing the integration of real-time measurements with physics-based models for predictive behavior analysis
Rig & sail elements monitoring, mast
Real loads at mast, spreaders, chainplates, and sail shape — delivering bending moments, aerodynamic loads to analyze sailing performance, and detection of high stress structural events.
Data visualisation & monitoring dashboard
Our visualisation platform presents processed sensor data, structural indicators, and alerts through a customizable dashboard —from raw signal monitoring to load distribution maps, fatigue tracking, and operational envelopes.
- Real-time data visualisation with configurable detail levels
- Structural alerts and utilisation indicators against design limits
- Load and fatigue histograms and statistical summaries
- Correlation with operational and environmental conditions
- API integration into client systems and vessel management platforms
- Cloud-based or on-premise deployment
Our projects
Isigenere
Isigenere — Triple-Island Floating Solar Array Structural & Hydrodynamic Engineering (45 MW)
Advanced Wing Systems
Inalia designed and implemented a structural monitoring system for AWS's Americas Cup concept wingsail, enabling real measurement of aerodynamic and structural loads under operational conditions.
OceanWings
Inalia designed and deployed a structural monitoring system for OceanWings' rigid wingsail propulsion units, enabling real measurement of aerodynamic and structural loads under operational conditions.
