SAILING VESSEL COMPRISING AN AERODYNAMIC PROFILE AND A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INCIDENT AIR FLOW ON A LEADING EDGE OF THE AERODYNAMIC PROFILE

The present invention relates to a sailboat that includes an aerodynamic profile and a system that determines the characteristics of the incident airflow over its leading edge. In order to be able toaccurately determine the position of the stagnation point at different regions along the leading edge of the aerodynamic profile, a system includes: being distributed on either side of the leading edge (14) and virtually forming a spacing in the form of a simple polygonal line Rows (S1 to S5) of the pressure sensor (16) of the open pattern (M1 to M5); and a computer (20) connected to the pressuresensor (16). The computer (20) determines a respective stagnation point position along each of the patterns (M1 to M5), the stagnation point position is from the curve abscissa (a1 to a5), and is based on being derived from the corresponding row (S1 to S5) The height (z1 to z5) of the respective height data evaluation of the pressure sensor (16) is defined, and for the stagnation point position, the interpolation is based