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About the team
About the team
Our team's main focus is based around designing the hull and foil for the moth. We are a multi-disciplinary team with backgrounds in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and more. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and educations within the University of Sheffield- visit our contact page for more details!
Meet the team
Team Lead : James Clarke
Co-Leads : Jakub Strak & Danny Lockett
Robert Prince
Luke
Jess
Alice Collins
Miriam Allen
Rhys Stevenson
Max Shields
Our Focus:
The Hydrofoils are the key to making the Moth foil, reducing the surface area drag allowing the wind powered boat to achieve speeds up to 40mph. As this is the first year of the team we won't be manufacturing the foils, likely getting a loan from SuMoth for the foils. However in the next year of the competition we will have to design, build and test our own hydrofoils aiming for hydrodynamic and structural efficiency.
The hull is the central feature of the moth that provides the buoyancy ensuring that the boat doesn't sink. This feature is integral for the structure and function of the boat as it's the feature that all components (including the mast, foils, wings and systems and riggings components) attach to! Therefore when designing the hull, we must balance maximum aero/hydrodynamic efficiency with sufficient structural support for all components.
Current progress :
As of 10/11/25 we are currently in the design phase. Teams are currently working on CAD models where we will then analyse each unique design in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for the most efficient design.
As of 02/03/26 we have currently just completed our first full design of an integrated hull, foils, mast and wings in fusion 360. We are currently working on our segment in a promotional video and sharing our design with the other sub-teams so that they can now intergrate their structures and systems.
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