Team Maverick aims to develop an innovative, efficient and sustainable solution for the transport section of the inland waterways.
We are Team Maverick, a group of 9 international students from group T. This year we will be competing in the ecorace challenge. In this challange we will be competing against other universities to develop the best solution for the inland navigation sector.
This project challenges us in diffrent domains like engineering, management and entrepeneurship. Not only are we going to build a vessel and take part in a number of races, we will also write a business plan and defend it in front of a jury.
This is not the first time that students of group T will be competing in the ecorace challenge. During the previous years they managed to get prizes like “best business plan” and “all-round winner.” This year we want to do as good or even better. Building our catamaran takes a lot of effort and asks for an investment.
DE MAVERICK
The Maverick Catamaran is an innovative, efficient and sustainable solution for inland navigation.
To take part in the Eco-race challenge our catamaran has to meet certain requirements. The first step was to design a catamaran that meets this demands. Our Catamaran is unique, it is modular, sustainable and it meets the highest possible performance.
MODULARITY
The hulls, the deck and the motors are replaceable and can be adjusted to your specific needs.
This means that you can buy a ‘basis version’ of our catamaran with a small investment. Later on you can expand your boat with certain ‘upgrades’. When you modify/upgrade your catamaran you can hand in your old pieces for a small recycling fee.
Thanks to the modularity of our catamaran the maintenance and replacement of certain parts is way easier than a normal boat. The damaged part can simply be replaced with a new part. This way you don’t have to buy a new vessel.
Duurzaamheid
To make our boat as sustainable, we use recycled materials. Thanks to our partnership with Armacell, we can use 100% recycled PET-foam to make a sandwichstructure of our hulls and deck. The sandwich structure will exist of 3 layers glassfiber – 1 layer foam – 3 layers glassfiber. Our motors will use biofuel.
Prestatie
Thanks to the structure of our hulls we have certain benefits.
Better stability, even with an uneven divided load.
More space on the deck. This gives us the chance to transport bigger cargo.
Safer cause the crew can leave the boat faster.
Faster because of hydrodynamic form of the hulls.
Therefor the launch of this project on Ulule & Hello Crowd. May u have any questions you can always mail us on info@teammaverick.be. .
Every euro of the project will be used as an investment to build our catamaran. To give some examples:
– Suzuki sponsored our outboard motors
-Allpa sponsored the drivetrain for our motors
-Armacell sponsored our foam core for the vessel
-Vosschemie sponsored a big part of our glassfiber and resin we need
-Watersport de kempen sponsored our safety equipment
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Besides our sponsors we want to use your contribution to pay for the glassfiber, Epoxy and the wood that we used for our mould.
You can be a part of our project!