TKI ocean race and oceans sustainability research project 2022-24

This report provides a summary of the TKI Ocean Race research project and evaluates the project activities, project deliverables and project experiences. This project is conducted in the period 2022 – 2024 under the TKI Maritime program , with the following consortium partners: • DutchSail B.V. (referred to as DutchSail. Representing Team JAJO) • Stichting Deltares (referred to as Deltares) • Allseas Engineering B.V. (referred to as Allseas) • Poortman Sailing Services/Rotterdam Offshore Sailing Team (referred to as ROST) • Stichting New-York – Rotterdam (referred to as NYR rowing team) • Provincie Zuid-Holland The project objective is: Through sailing, collecting relevant data and analysing the results to develop our models and better understand the hydrodynamics of the world’s oceans, ultimately optimising offshore navigation and reducing carbon emissions. Chapter two summarizes the workplan and project deliverables. Chapter three describes the hydrodynamic models used under this project and chapter four the operational framework for making forecasts using these hydrodynamic models. Next, chapter five elaborates on the sailing competitions and concludes with a validation of the delivered forecasts with the measurements from the field campaigns. Chapter six elaborates on the pilot carried out with Allseas with a heavy lift operation in the East Irish Sea. Chapter seven describes the last field campaign executed under this research project, a trans-Atlantic rowing challenge. Highlights from the Ocean Summit in The Hague are discussed in chapter eight. And finally, a summary and conclusion can be found in chapter nine.