We passed the technical inspection! We will now slowly start preparing for a test run this afternoon. During this run, we hope to perfect our hydrofoil settings for Monaco conditions.

It is 05:50, and we have just departed towards Monaco. Today we have an 800km drive planned towards our camping. Everyone is still in a good mood and excited for our first race in Monaco.

In the forthcoming weeks, we want to give you a behind the scenes look of our boat. The past year we did a great number of revisions on our electronics system. One of the most crucial parts was figuring out how to protect all these new electronic components. The pictures below show our MuPPeT and Contactor equipment. All our enclosures are sponsored by our valued partner PM Komponenten B.V. Every piece of our electronic system ranging from LCD to the MuPPeTs are carefully built into waterproof enclosures. These enclosures ensure that our components don’t get damaged due to the harsh conditions of Solar boat racing. Thanks to the great service of PM Komponenten we didn’t even have to align the mounting holes or cutouts ourselves this was all part of the great service they provided.

After successfully repairing the motor driver last night and participating in the Match Race earlier this morning. Trouble struck us again today. During the testing and adjusting our hydrofoil settings today we suddenly lost the ability to steer. Immediately after lifting the boat out of the water the problem was obvious. We have fixed the problem by now, but unfortunately not in time to still participate in the Sprint. Next week we will give it our best shot all again in Groningen.

After the setback of yesterday, a trip to Friesland and the replacement of some circuit boards. We managed to get the boat up and running before today’s start. The first tests look very promising and we are excited to get racing. Today we have the match race and sprint scheduled.