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The UCL Racing HydroContest team
Team Members:
- Anton Romare
- Fergus Stewart
- Frederick Panks
- George Lundy
- Joanna Tomlin
- Marcus Wilcock
- Ratik Mahajan
- Wafa Elahi
- Yi Zhong
Supervisor
The Project
Have a look at the poster for the project
The ‘HydroContest’ is a competition centred around naval energy efficiency and boasts university competitors from across the globe. Teams design, manufacture and pilot a maximum of two Remote-Controlled (RC) boats through several specified categories, with the overall purpose of achieving the competitions’ goal to ‘Carry more, faster, using less energy’.
The Design
This year, the team developed a mono-hull Lightweight racing vessel from ‘scratch’, using Maxsurf to create a planing design with approximately 30 % lower resistance than 2017’s catamaran; achieving top speeds of 5.5 ms-1 (11 knots)
The decision was taken to ‘repair & upgrade’ 2017’s Heavyweight trimaran, improving top-plates, deck-plates, the cross-structure, Hull Vane® development and implementation of the control system. This led to a resistance reduction of 19 % and drastically improved the overall performance of the vessel.
