Filed under: Nissan, Design/Style, Racing
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Car designers are constantly up to all kinds of mischief, and the results often don’t look like they’d hold water. But we certainly couldn’t say that about Matt Stuble.
The team leader at Nissan Design America happens also to be a world-class sailing champion, having started racing ice boats in Michigan before moving to ocean sailing in San Diego. While training the staff at Nissan’s new design studio in Mexicali, Mexico, Struble and his team designed and built the new Class A Catamaran you see here, learning about design and modeling in the process.
Having won the Class A title here in the United States, Stuble is now taking the one-man sailing rig to Skødstrup, Denmark, for the world championship next week. Check out the design in the high-res gallery and follow the jump for the full press release.Continue reading Nissan designer sets sail in racing catamaran for world championship
Nissan designer sets sail in racing catamaran for world championship originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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