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Atlantic Section RINA-SNAME Student meeting, March 26, 2004: Ship Shape & Bristol Fashion This year’s Ship Shape & Bristol Fashion boat building competition was held on Friday afternoon, March 26 in the Fluids Lab at Memorial. The competition was very different from previous versions of the Winter design competition. The students who organized the meeting – Stephen Mulrooney and Blair Kirkland – were inspired by the game played at the Student Congress during SNAME’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco last fall. The original game was designed by students at UNO and the same principles were applied locally: design and build a vessel that could (i) propel itself the length of a small trim tank and (ii) carry a load via a crane over its side. All the materials were supplied at the start of the game and the entire event (including a jumbo pizza break) unfolded over three hours. The winning team of two Term 5 students, Rene Lange and John Barrett, and one Term 2 student, Evan Martin, managed to propel their boat the length of the trim tank in 43 seconds using a small plastic propeller powered by an electric motor and batteries. Their crane vessel supported a load of 2.80kg before tipping over. The combination of the best load and second fastest speed was enough for the win. Experience clearly matters: this is Rene’s third triumph in student design competitions. He was a member of the winning construction team in the 2002 Charybdis Challenge and crewed the winning entry in the 2003 Challenge.
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The team of Bhasker Murty, Matt Murphy, Chris Jones, and Bobby McGrath had the fastest vessel (and the most duct tape!). It zipped down the trim tank in just 18 seconds. The third place vessel was built by Rebecca Coffey, Alex Schilg, and Christian Knapp. They’ll be looking for a chance to redeem themselves in the Charybdis Challenge 2004. Thanks to Stephen and Blair for organizing a great event.
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