Passion.
Driven.
Designs.
What happened at the FSMC2024?
The 2024 Foiling SuMoth Challenge in its 6th edition saw 11 total registered teams coming from Italy, Sweden, UK, France, and Canada. Stage S1 saw Audace Sailing Team, PoliMi Sailing Team, SotonSuMoth Team and PoliTo SULA coming with upgraded concepts from previous years and putting lots of innovation into making better their ideas. On the New Concepts (NC) side of things, 2024 saw seven teams coming with SuMoth concepts that went from a conservative state of the art SuMoth from UniCa Sailing team making a boat in record time, to Iridium SuMoth from Solent University putting together a concept that has no hull.
Stages S2 and S3 with Performance and Racing respectively, 7 teams were ready to race against the GPS and on fleet races, giving the most nail-biting moments with multiple photo-finish regattas.
Stage S1 - New Concepts
2nd PoliTo
(432 Points)
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1st RafaleETS
(450 points)
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3rd Chalmers
(420 Points)
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Stage S1 - UPGraded Concepts
2nd PoliMi
(437 Points)
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1st Audace
(440 points)
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3rd Southampton
(400 Points)
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Stage S2 - Performance
2nd PoliMi
(285 Points)
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1st Audace
(300 points)
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3rd Rafale ETS
(240 Points)
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Stage S3 - Fleet Racing
2nd Rafale ETS
(200 Points)
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1st PoliMi
(200 points)
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3rd PoliTo
(180 Points)
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Global ranking
S1
NewConcepts
1-Rafale ETS (CAN) 450pts
2-PoliTo Victoria (ITA)432pts
3-Chalmers Formula Sailing (SWE) 420pts
4-UniCa (ITA) 368pts
5-ESTACA Wave (FRA) 335pts
6-Solent Iridium (UK) 320pts
7-Metis Vela UniPD (ITA) 300pts
S1
UPGraded
1-Audace Sailing Team (ITA) 440pts
2-PoliMi Febe (ITA) 437pts
3-Soton SuMoth Team (UK)400pts
4-PoliTo SULA (ITA) 396
S2
Performance
1-Audace Sailing Team (ITA) 300pts
2-PoliMi Febe (ITA) 285pts
3-Rafale ETS (CAN) 240pts
4-Soton SuMoth Team (UK) 155pts
5-Chalmers Formula Sailing (SWE) 140pts
6-UniCa Sailing Team (ITA) 95pts
7-PoliTo SULA (ITA) 90pts
S3
Fleet Racing
1-PoliMi Febe (ITA) 200pts
2-Rafale ETS (CAN) 200pts
3-PoliTo SULA (ITA) 180pts
4-Audace Sailing Team (ITA) 160pts
5-Soton SuMoth Team (UK) 90pts
6-Chalmers Formula Sailing (SWE) 20pts
7-UniCa Sailing Team (ITA) 10pts
Overall Winner
With the sum of the S1, S2 and S3 stages results, PoliMi Sailing Team with Febe, they claimed the overall prize and took home the Foiling SuMoth Challenge 2024 Challenge!
Highlights
The highlights of the 2024 Foiling SuMoth Challenge included, as usual, a great example of camaradery
The Foiling SuMoth Challenge concept is based on the applied research and developments. From an organisational perspecrtive, the outcome of the challenge is always positive. The time, effort and passion the teams put into their concepts is a vivid example of the sustainably-oriented solutions used to achieve the final prototype.
As usual, the Jury was surprised with many out-of-the-box ideas on Stage S1, many put into practice in the manufacturing phase of S2.
Electronics
Soton
Materials
Rafale
Processing
Chalmers Formula Sailing team from Sweden