Boat Details - US Naval Academy 2018
- Team Name: United States Naval Academy
- Location: Annapolis, Maryland, United States
- Boat Name: Celtic Ambition
- Intended Route: West to East
- Class: Sailing
- Division: Autonomous
- Length: 2.01 m
- Weight: 64.4 kg
- Beam: 0.73 m
- Draft: 0.94 m
- Hull type: Carbon Fiber (Satin Weave, Three-Ply) Hull, With Composite Sandwich Main-Deck (Carbon Fiber Skin, Balsa Wood Core) And Internal Plywood Deck. The hull is a unique/customized design produced by undergraduate naval architecture/marine engineering students from a male (foam) mold.
- Rig Design: Free-standing, rotating gaff with fixed carbon fiber boom and gaff.
- Power source: 10.8 V 23.4 A-HR Li-Ion Battery With 20 W Solar Panel.
- Sail type: Battenless, High-Strength Mylar Sail. The sail-area is 0.83 square-meters.
- Actuators: NEMA 17 Stepper Motors, Directly Driving Rudder And Sail.
- Sensors: Wind direction via a Honeywell RTY360LVNAX Hall-Effect Sensor, ADAFRUIT BNO055 for compass heading, and Copernicus II GPS Receiver.
- Communications: SmartOne Globalstar Tracker.
- Computers: MBED LPC1768 With Additional TEENSY 3.2 Nodes As Microcontrollers.
- Other: N/A
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