THE CRITICAL ROLE OF ACCURATE WIND MEASUREMENT FOR WIND ASSISTED SHIP PROPULSION CONTENTS Executive summary 4 - 5 Introduction 6 - 7 Wind measurement for Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion 8 - 11 Challenges of accurate wind sensing on board 13 Accurate 昀椀bre-optic wind sensing methods 14 - 17 Impact on ship performance 18 - 19 Bene昀椀ts of load & stress monitoring 20 Translating data into performance 23 About this white paper 25 3