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  • Australian Maritime College
    Australian Maritime College

    Australian Maritime College

  • École Centrale Nantes
    École Centrale Nantes

    École Centrale Nantes

  • École Centrale Paris

    École Centrale Paris

  • École Polytechnique
    École Polytechnique

    École Polytechnique

  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • ENS de Techniques Avancées Bretagne & ENS d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete
    ENS de Techniques Avancées Bretagne & ENS d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete

    ENS de Techniques Avancées Bretagne & ENS d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete

  • ENS Maritime Le Havre & Arts et Métiers Lille
    ENS Maritime Le Havre & Arts et Métiers Lille

    ENS Maritime Le Havre & Arts et Métiers Lille

  • ENS Maritime Marseille

    ENS Maritime Marseille

  • Federal University of Pernambuco

    Federal University of Pernambuco

  • Haute École ARC Ingénierie

    Haute École ARC Ingénierie

  • Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg
    Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg

    Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg

  • Ocean University of Sri Lanka
    Ocean University of Sri Lanka

    Ocean University of Sri Lanka

  • Southampton University

    Southampton University

  • Supméca Toulon

    Supméca Toulon

  • Swinburne University of Technology
    Swinburne University of Technology

    Swinburne University of Technology

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín

    Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín

  • Universiti Sains Malaysia

    Universiti Sains Malaysia

Australian Maritime College
Australian Maritime College
Australian Maritime College

A refined version of our hydrofoiling catamaran that won the best design award in 2014. Coupled with our new fully designed T -foils we expect our new catamaran to reach much larger top speeds and provide stiff competition to all teams.

 

Australian Maritime College

We decided to combine the hulls of the lightweight catamaran with the volume required to carry an extra 200 kg for the heavyweight category. With the SWATH concept, changeover between competitions is as easy as removing the hydrofoils and inserting the SWATH hulls.

Team AMC

 

 

A team of undergraduate engineers from the AMC took on the challenge to not only compete in the 2015 HYDROcontest but also improve upon the performance and achievements of the inaugural team in 2014. Three team members remain from the 2014 team allowing the continuity of the skills, knowledge and experience required to go deep into the contest and achieve best in class. Five new members have also come on board who bring their own set of individual skills and knowledge to the table.

The team includes Mitchell Pearson (Team manager), David Carlsson (Electronics and logistics manager), Will Innis (SWATH boat manager), Reuben Kent (Catamaran boat manager), Samuel Smith (Foil design), James Wilkes (Communication and boat construction), Sam Hunnibel (Boat and foil construction) and Alex Waterhouse (Communications mamager).

 

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École Centrale Nantes
École Centrale Nantes
École Centrale Nantes

Le bateau léger est un catamaran ressemblant à un classe A sur foils. Il est entièrement réalisé en matériaux composites, pour diminuer la masse.

École Centrale Nantes

Le bateau lourd est un monocoque à étrave inversée. Sa structure et sa forme lui permettent d'avoir une grande contenance et d'être ultra-stable.

Team Centrale Nantes HYDROcontest

 

Composé de 10 élèves de deuxième et troisième année, étudiants de l'option OCEAN et Calcul Intensif nous n'avions pas forcément beaucoup de points commun au début de notre projet. Cependant, un point nous rassemblait : nous étions volontaires pour participer au concours HydroContest. Ce point s'est en fait révélé essentiel. Grâce à notre motivation, nous pouvions faire des réunions tard le soir après les cours, rester soudés dans les moments difficiles et utiliser les connaissances théoriques que nos cours nous apportaient.

Mais la motivation seule ne nous était pas suffisante. Aussi, nous avons réussi à trouver de l'aide à l'extérieur. Au sein de l'Ecole que ce soit pour la conception, la construction ou pour la partie électronique embarquée, nous avons pu compter sur le soutien de spécialistes et de passionnés. A l'extérieur, nous avons pu largement échanger avec la société HydrOcéan, dont deux ingénieurs en particulier suivaient notre projet.

 

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École Centrale Paris
École Centrale Paris

This is an Archimedean catamaran designed to plan on its bow wave. We wanted it long and thin with skates to minimize the water resistance.

École Centrale Paris

We adapted our lightweight boat with a submerged bulb which will contain the ballast to avoid interface resistance.

HYDROcontest Centrale Paris

 

We are the official team of the Ecole Centrale Paris. We are 7 members involved in the project, but with different profiles gathered by the desire to discover, through an ambitious project, the issues of energy optimization in the shipbuilding industry.

Our interest in the project comes from our passion for the nautical field but also from our will to face the challenge of designing and building a boat from A to Z. Finally, the opportunity to innovate in this area is what we value most as engineering students.

 

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École Polytechnique
École Polytechnique
École Polytechnique

Our lightweight boat is a catamaran set up on V-shape foils and the material we use for both hulls and foils is carbon fiber.

École Polytechnique

Mono-hull boat built in a brand new recyclable composite. We made some mechanical resistance tests for Arkema and Gold of Bengal and they are looking forward to seeing the boat.

 

X-HYDROcontest

 

Our team is composed with 7 students (Thomas Bourdais, Fabien Cockenpot, Ulysse Dhomé, Maeline Ferret, Emil Garnell, Camille Guévenoux et Guillaume d’Hérouville)  in second year at the Ecole polytechnique, a French engineering school located near Paris. We chose to represent the Ecole polytechnique at the HYDROcontest as our second-year scientific project. We are supported by various partners and sponsors in this work that advice us for the construction and give us financial and supply help: laboratories of our school, Safran (Sailing team and Structil), Gold of Bengal, Diatex, Kaïros and Arkema.

 

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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The light weighted boat is inspired from the Moth sailing international class and is equipped with a fully autonomous control system for the stabilization of its dynamical state.

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The heavy boat is inspired from the SWASH (Small-Waterplane Area Single Hull) type of carriers. Some foiling features and autonomous piloting can be implemented on it.

HYDROCONTEST EPFL TEAM

 

EPFL Team is composed of 15 people and will present two boats based on the designs from last year. Four bachelor students work on each boat. They work day and night to implement and test the components and features designed by the master students. The designs of our prototypes and the way we organise our team is driven by research and pedagogic purposes. Indeed, as students we try to bring state of the art solutions in many fields such as mechanics, electronics, signal processing and computational optimization from the lab to the lake.

 

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ENS de Techniques Avancées Bretagne & ENS d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete
ENS de Techniques Avancées Bretagne & ENS d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete
ENS de Techniques Avancées Bretagne & ENS d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete

Monohull, equipped with V shape foils, designed to have the most efficient ratio between efficiency and stability, and a tail foil further from the main foil to increase longitudinal stability. V foils were realised in one part to avoid side effects.

The monohull is an improved thinner version of the 2014 monohull. More than 50 hulls were designed and tested in stability and hull resistance. At the end 2 boats were used in the speed and wave test performance. The winner is constructed in plywood. 

Club Hydros Paris-Brest (CHPB)

 

Club Hydros Paris-Brest (CHPB) is the team of ENSTA Bretagne and ENSA Paris-La Villette. Since 2014, the two French schools have a common program in Ship Design and some of the members of CHPB undertook this course in naval architecture and engineering. The result is a multi-disciplinary team of students specializing in naval hydrodynamics, naval structure and robotics as well as architecture. One member of the team is a part of the Robotics Club of ENSTA Bretagne.

 To ensure the future participation of our schools in the HydroContest, we created Club Hydros Paris-Brest as a part of ENSTA Bretagne Student Clubs – an association of students and tutors.

 

Here are the members of CHPB:

Olivier Conard #Challenger - Engineering student in naval architecture and offshore, specialising in naval hydrodynamics. Always ready to answer a challenge.

Radostina Sabeva #Designer - Architect, laureate of “Europan 12” for the project “Plug & Play City” on the subject of floating urban structures.

Fengman Zhan #Leader - Engineering student in naval architecture and offshore, specialising in naval structure. Fan of sports and competitions. 

Doriane Causeur #Waterkid - Engineering student in naval architecture and offshore, specialising in naval hydrodynamics. Fan of watersports and marine exploration since her childhood.  

Mohamed Ben Othman #Diver - Engineering student in offshore marine engineering and naval architecture. Specialising in offshore.  

Manon Ducoux #Sailer - First year engineering student in naval architecture and offshore, specialising in naval hydrodynmics. Fan of sailing and watersports.

Maxime Bouyssou #TonyStark - Engineering student in robotics, future graduate from ENSTA Bretagne/ENSMM (mechanics and micro-technic). Fan of drones and sea exploration.

 

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ENS Maritime Le Havre & Arts et Métiers Lille
ENS Maritime Le Havre & Arts et Métiers Lille

Catamaran radio-commandé polyvalent à étrave inversée en fibre de lin et résine bio-sourcée. Propulsion par hélice à traction montée sur POD, agrémentée d'une tuyère.

ENS Maritime Le Havre & Arts et Métiers Lille

Ce navire polyvalent concourra dans les deux catégories.

Hydro's Ride

 

Hydro's Ride est une équipe réunissant l'association du même nom, composée d'étudiants de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime du Havre (ENSM), et l'association AMComposite des Arts et Métiers Paristech (ENSAM), centre de Lille. 

Le rôle principal des étudiants de l’ENSAM sera de superviser la construction de la coque et de la structure grâce à leur apprentissage d'ingénieur généraliste, spécialisé dans l'utilisation des matériaux composites. Les élèves de l'ENSM sont de futurs officiers de la Marine Marchande, riches de leur formation variée en matière maritime. Ils sont chargés de la conception de la forme du navire, de l'électronique de commande et de la propulsion. 

C'est d'abord un goût partagé pour la navigation qui nous a réunis. Nous sommes attirés par la compétition et par l'envie de nous mesurer à des équipes venues d'ailleurs.Notre équipe pluridisciplinaire permet de regrouper nos connaissances dans les domaines de la marine et de la construction, faisant de nous une équipe complémentaire et polyvalente.

 

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ENS Maritime Marseille
ENS Maritime Marseille
ENS Maritime Marseille

Our lightweight vessel will stand on three « T » foils, in ordrer to give more stability and efficiency to the ship. We will also add an electronical self-regulation and a live data feedback.

 

Since the beginning, we tried to reduce the environmental impact of our heavyweight vessel. We will make the hull with linen fibre instead of the carbon fibre we used last year.

HydroTech

 

After our success last year, the HydroTech team is back in the championship. Our heavyvessel won last year  the innovation award and we will keep improving. The association is composed of students and professors of the ENSM Marseille martime school. The team manager Antoine CARON divided the team in 4 groups :

Communication: In charge of Public Relations, Press Relations and sponsoring, led by Gabriel GUIBERT-PERONI, Communications manager

Heavyweight: In charge of the heavy vessel construction in linen fibre, led by Paul HIRTZMANN, Logistics manager

Lightweight: construction of the light vessel, led by Antoine CARON, project manager

Porpulsion and Electronics, currently working on an infrared list regulation for one of our vessels. This team is led by Frederic SPELLIERS, electronic teacher at the ENSM.

This year, with our partners and sponsors, we will give our best to win!

 

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Federal University of Pernambuco
Federal University of Pernambuco
Federal University of Pernambuco

A hydrofoil catamaran (forward foils surface-piercing and aft foils inverted T) with remote control flaps on the stern for longitudinal stabilization.

Federal University of Pernambuco

A modified Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH), where the two torpedos are replaced by a removable one, central and coupled to the catamaran.

Navícula Boat Design

 

The Navícula team is a group of students from the Federal University of Pernambuco, located in Northeast Brazil. The team was formed due to an invitation of Hydros to the university to compete in the first edition of the HYDROcontest, in july 2014. For this competition, we've had many problems during construction and with sponsorship, but in the end we managed to get the boat to Switzerland and compete. After this, the team searched for its deficiencies and saw the opportunity of integrating other fields of studies in the group.

Now, the Navícula team is still composed mostly by Naval Engineering students, but also counts with a Mechanical and a Chemical engineering students. For the 2015 edition of the HYDROcontest, we started a new project trying to apply the concepts of efficiency and sustentability. We believe that in the shipbuilding (and any other) industries teamwork, persistency and hard work are the differential. And that’s what defines our group.

 

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Haute École ARC Ingénierie
Haute École ARC Ingénierie
Haute École ARC Ingénierie

«Little CHArc» est un hydroptère monocoque conçu en 2015 par Audrey Wesoly, étudiante en Conception de systèmes mécaniques à la HE-Arc.

Haute École ARC Ingénierie

«Big CHArc» est un hydroptère à deux coques conçu en 2014 par Rachel Simonetta, étudiante en Conception de systèmes mécaniques à la HE-Arc. 

Team HE-Arc

 

Le Team HE-Arc est composé d’étudiants en Conception de systèmes mécaniques du canton de Neuchâtel et du Jura bernois: Audrey Wesoly, cheffe de projet, Dimitri Glanzmann, Jonathan Gosteli, Gaël Horner et Kenny Othenin-Girard.

Cinq collaborateurs de la HE-Arc les accompagnent dans cette aventure: les professeurs Thierry Robert et Christophe Varidel, Mathieu Horsky, Jeroen Köller (chargé de logistique) et Serge-André Maire (chargé de communication).

Pour cette deuxième édition de l’HYDROCONTEST, le Team HE-Arc essaiera de faire aussi bien qu’en 2014, année où, avec un seul bateau, il avait terminé 1er de l’épreuve du transport de masse et 2ème de celle du transport léger. 

En 2015, il alignera «Big CHArc» en transport de masse et un nouvel hydroptère en transport léger, «Little CHArc», dont la conception fait l’objet du travail de bachelor d’Audrey Wesoly, l’étude des foils étant assurée par Jonathan Gosteli.

 

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Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg
Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg
Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture Fribourg

Notre bateau " léger " est très plat et est monté sur foils. Il se compose de 2 flotteurs pour une bonne stabilité. Au niveau électrique, la stabilité est en partie gérée automatiquement.


Notre bateau " lourd " est équipé de foils et se compose de deux coques aux formes très carrées. Le travail de fiabilité est au centre de nos préoccupations. Au niveau électrique les performances maximums du moteur sont approchées.

Heia-Fr HydroContest

 

La force de notre équipe est sa diversité nous avons 9 étudiants de génie mécanique et 5 de la filière génie électrique. Nous avons également la chance d’avoir l’expérience de l’année dernière et deux coques de bateau. À l’école nous avons la possibilité de fibrer, d’usiner des pièces et de créer toutes les cartes électroniques.

La bonne entente et la bonne humeur est toujours au rendez vous quand les bateaux se mettent à flotter. Malgré quelques essais au début très critiques, les améliorations permettent à nos navires d’évoluer rapidement et de devenir compétitifs.


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Ocean University of Sri Lanka
Ocean University of Sri Lanka

We have used two types of hydrofoils, fully submerged inverted "T" rudder and surface piercing "V" foils. The big advantage of the V shape is that the flight height is automatically controlled by the changing underwater geometry.

Ocean University of Sri Lanka

In order to reduce the drag, we decided to attach to the hull two underwater tubes loaded with the ballast. Tubes will be balanced and up thrust is equal to the weight. A hydrofoil is also fitted to increase the lift.

OCU Challengers

 

Ocean university Hydrocontest team is the first ever Asian team to take part in the competition. We have a team of four members under the guidance of Dr. Ranjan Perera who is the Dean of Marine Engineering Faculty in Ocean University of Sri Lanka. As a designing unit we have completed many projects such as a Semi Submarine, an underwater research vessel etc. As an innovative team we are looking forward to take part in this event with our innovative hull design. As a leading maritime organization in Sri Lanka we are looking forward to this event as it will be an exciting opportunity to the Sri Lankan boat building industry as well.

Being a Marine is always a challenge with this intention in our minds we are looking forward to take part in this event to be a serious competitor.

 

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Southampton University
Southampton University
Southampton University

For the lightweight vessel, we have designed a boat that not only flies with hydrofoils but that also uses its aerodynamic properties to generate lift and reduce windage.

Southampton University

For the heavyweight design, torpedoes were designed to decrease wave making resistance.

Southampton Hydro Team

 

As the Southampton Hydro Team, we are excited to be taking part into the Hydrocontest. We are a team formed by Master/Post-graduate students in Maritime Engineering at the University of Southampton. We are an international team that regroups five different nationalities (from France, England, Italy, Spain and China). The team benefits from a wide technical background including Naval Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Yacht and Small Craft Design, Electronic Engineering. Our main motivation in this project is to apply our theoretical knowledge on a concrete and applied project within an international-level competition.

The aim of the competition is to design, build and race the fastest electrical boat able to transport weight of 20 kg and 200 kg to simulate respectively passengers and cargo transports. To fulfil this aim, we have been audacious with our design. Since the beginning, we have chosen to design only one boat for both competitions. In order to remain competitive in load cases, specific appendages were imagined to improve the performance of the boat regarding its specific displacement.

Our aim for this competition is to win the lightweight vessel competition and to reach a podium for the heavy displacement. Moreover, we have undertaken this student competition as a way to improve many area such as project management, team working, fundraising, communication skills, boat building and many others... We are aware of the very high level of all the Engineering school and Universities that will be represented in less than a month on the Lac Leman. We are expecting a rough but very rewarding competition week in Lausanne and can’t wait to share our experience with the other teams.

 

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Supméca Toulon
Supméca Toulon
Supméca Toulon

The 3 hulls allow a smaller draft, lower frictions and a greater stability. We will use hydrofoils to raise the boat, and a big wing at the front, which is similar to planes, to relieve the weight of the boat.

The wing will be removed and a platform will be set to receive the 200kg loading. The hulls are built with linen fibers, a brand new and ecological technology on the fiber market.

HydroSharks

 

All of the 9 HydroSharks’ participants come from Supmeca Toulon, an engineering school specialized in mechanics, located in the south of France. 

The HYDROCONTEST is a great opportunity for us to use our school knowledge, experiences, and to discover new skills. 

The Team is composed of Nicolas Coudrais (President), Alexandre Lagneau & Valentin Sevrit (communication), Angélique Moisdon (logistics), Aurore Biardeau (material), Sébastien Cêtre (design), Noël Rivière & Victor Monfroy (electronics) and Rémy Tsjoen (treasurer).

At the end of April, we validated all the requirements for the boat, and the conception on Catia was almost finished. Another student from Marseille, Thibaud Sague, helps us with his material school to make a mold of the hulls.

HydroSharks has well understood the mission of HydroContest: build a fast, low energy and eco friendly boat. That is why we searched many materials, which could be robust enough for the boat, and safe for the planet. We decided to go with a new product in the fiber sector; the linen fibers, a natural product as strong as glass fiber.

The boat construction, the shipping to Switzerland and the material costs are pretty expensive. Hopefully, we are helped by Supmeca Toulon, the BDE (main student association in Supmeca), and Hydros Foundation which gives 4000 ChF. Moreover, we won the 2000€ first price of a contest organized by the Société Générale, a French bank sponsoring the best student projects!

Finally, during all the preparation, HydroSharks team can rely on Supmeca’s teachers, who are very committed to this incredible project: Myriam Orquera (mechanics teacher), Cédric Anthierens (actuator teacher), Didier Groux (material resistance teacher),Thierry Soriano (automatic system teacher).

We are a very motivated, determined and close team. We learned to deal with the difficulties of a new project, and proved that working together is a real benefit to make a good job. For sure, we are on the right way to success!

 

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Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology

Our team’s boat is a light weight catamaran for better weight balancing that features hydrofoils based on NACA airfoil.

Swinburne University of Technology

The boat will run in both categories.

SwinSurfers

 

Our team is made up of dedicated individuals with deep passion for creating a better world. The team is made up of students from Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical and Mechatronics background. The team is generally split into the administrative team and the built team. The administrative team consists of both the team manager and the communications manager with a handful of team members to help them. The built team, on the other hand, is led by the logistics manager, and is responsible for designing and building the boat. Of course, the team structure is flexible, meaning that members from each teams help each other freely. There are also junior members who joined in to learn and help out. Pretty soon, we'll be starting the selection for the third team: the actual team who will fly to Switzerland for the HYDROcontest!

 

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Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín
Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín

The beams of this catamaran will be movable along the hull, in order to manipulate its center of mass.The ship will have four V-shaped foils for the stability; each of them will have an independent flap to improve the maneuverability.

Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín

It will have the same features as those of the lightweight design. The loads will be placed in a submarine, so as to use the water lifting force in our favor and to minimize wave-induced perturbations.

Hydrometra Eco Soluciones Navales

 

The Hydrometra team is integrated by four technical groups and an additional management, communications and logistics group. The last one is composed of Diana María López Ochoa (Project Director), David Villegas Delgado (Team Leader), César Velásquez Pineda and Juan Pablo Giraldo Ortiz.

The HYDRODYNAMICS DESIGN group is in charge of the structural design of the boat, the hulls, the load storage system and the foils. It is composed ofw a high-level performance of the boat, in terms of the velocity and stability. This team is composed of Mauricio Toro Botero (assistant professor), Daniel Calle, Johann Khamil Delgado, Felipe Arbeláez, Daniel Mateo Bonilla, Nora Melisa Zapata and Estiven Taborda.

The ELECTRICAL AND CONTROL DESIGN group develops the electrical components and control systems of the craft. It is composed of Federico Velásquez Vélez, Eduardo Ospina Serrano, Steven Jiménez, Jahdiel Pabón and Luis Miguel González.

The MECHANICAL DESIGN group elaborates the flaps systems and the beams. It is composed of Juan Fernando Ramírez Patiño (assistant professor), Luisa Orozco Velásquez, Diego Eusse Naranjo and César Velásquez Pineda.

The MANUFACTURING group is in charge of designing, planning and leading the manufacturing processes through which our proposed design will be materialized. Even though the whole Hydrometra team work on the manufacturing, the team members who plan and lead it are: Juan Meza Meza (assistant professor), Jorge Iván Sepúlveda Ocampo and Julián Sierra Bedoya.

 

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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Universiti Sains Malaysia

The main hull is equipped with two front hydrofoils at the port and starboard bow. One hydrofoil unit is positioned at the aft for stabilizing purposes. The engine is position at the stern. The outrigger hulls are attached with stabilizers.

Our trimaran composed of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls will run in both categories.

USM Engineers

 

The team comprises of 3 lecturers and 3 students  in the various field of engineering: Civil Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering.  The project is supported by fellow students and technical team.