Abstract
Human Powered Vessel Festival (HPVF) hosted by the College of Engineering of Chungnam National University, the Society of Naval Architects of Korea and the Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute has been held annually in Daejon since 1999. Solar boat powered by solar energy appeared for the first time in 2006, and it is expected that more new teams will enter this competition in the coming years. In this paper it is described that design procedures and manufacture processes of the solar boat named EPISODE. Firstly, It is aimed to understand compositions of the electric system and their performance properties and to show the design procedures using commercial design packages line WAVIS, CATIA, HCAD etc. Through the trial test, we confirmed ship speed, maneuverability, durability and operation condition of the electric system and found some problems. We plans to make reported problems go away and install hydrofoils for more improved speed performance.
