Evaluation of Tasks and Postures of a Sailing Yacht Tailer

This paper outlines the results of an evaluation test referred to the tasks and postures of a tailer, who is the determinant subject taking care of furling and setting the sails on a sailing yacht. The target of the evaluation test was to point out the most important aspects of a tailer’s postural discomfort, in order to define some guidelines referring to different operative conditions (postural, organizational and positional) as well as to different sets of rigging. The experimental results allowed to provide some guidelines to favour and to guide design choices on postures, stations and riggings referred to the tailer’s role. At the end, guidelines are enforced in an interesting aestetic solution of a cockpit.