Swath Hydrofoil Boat Design

September 2015 - September 2016

The motivation of this project was to build for the first time this novel design, the SWATH-Hydrofoil (Brizzalora S. (2014)), tailored for rapid crew and small good transportation from offshore installations. It combines the superior seakeeping ability of an unconventional SWATH concept in higher sea states with surface piercing hydrofoils to achieve higher speeds in milder sea states. This small scale model enabled us to test and validate the concept in a real environment and situations.

Contributions

Structural Analysis and Design

Motors Design and Assembly

Electronics Fabrication and Assembly

Collaborators

Samuel Williams

Joao Seixas de Medeiros

Sahil Shah