Our boat has already been designed, and we are now in the process of constructing the boat. Hence, we welcome any companies who are interested to be our sponsors and partners and assist us both financially and through technical consultations.

Our team’s boat is a lightweight catamaran that features hydrofoils. The two hulls design of a catamaran enable better balancing of the boat during the turning and also enable the boat to carry more weight. The boat is also designed to be symmetrical so that the center of gravity is at the center of the boat to make steering the boat easier. The four hydrofoils that the boat features is designed with NACA airfoil and is used to create a lifting force when the boat is moving at certain speed to lift the boat’s hulls out of water and reduce the water resistance when the boat is moving. The boat will feature exchangeable hydrofoils in order to manipulate the lifting force needed for two different categories of the competition. 

A video log of the whole event will be created during the competition, and we are now documenting our build progress online as a blog at j.mp/swinsurfers. We hope to end the video production by the time we return from Switzerland. 

Althought the project has been funded for design, construction and testing, we still need a lot more funds to cover the logistics and video production costs. We hope to represent Malaysia as one of the best designs, and to do this, we need your help!

**Please do note that we are asking for individual pledgers from this page. For companies, please contact me at [email protected] as we have separate sponsorship packages for companies. 

Team of Swinsurfer. Front, From Left: Ivan Ling, Daniel Vong, Pheng Hak and Kelvin Lim; Back, From Left: Gabriel Ling, Kim Yong, Wilson Yeo and Punit Shah