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Design Topics
Designing
human powered racing boats
Human Powered boats in Europe are mostly called "waterbikes".
Teams from different countries build them in order to meet every
year and compete with one another during waterbike championships to
see who is the best. Because of the limited size of these vessels
there is a tremendous advantage of being able to afford experimental
design variations at high risk. This is what makes waterbikes
interesting to learn from. Not only from a biking point of view but
especially from a shipbuilders point of view.
This is probably also a reason why many shipbuilding
students enjoy it so much to make a human powered boat and
participate at competitions.
Besides the human power that is necessary to win, a good concept,
low hull resistance and a high efficient propulsion system are the
key factors.
And some of the boat designers appear also to be great artists!
Go to:
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Building of the Macbath (mould and
carbon hull), Delft
Waterbike Technology (DWT), The Netherlands
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