Performance Engineer (Naval Architect), Oceanbird

Alfred Rapaport

Alfred Rapaport is a passionate sailor and Naval Architect. He is a graduate from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and wrote his thesis in 2020 on structural integration of wind propulsion at Swedish shipping company Wallenius. For the last three years, he has been in charge of performance predictions at Oceanbird, a company developing wind propulsion systems (rigid wing sails) for shipping. His areas of expertise are performance predictions as well as stability and maneuverability analysis.