Solar Challenge 2008
The second edition of the Frisian Solar Challenge has taken place a while ago. And we can look back at it with a good feeling.
Six days long, from June 22th till June 29th 2008 the teams were intently and they put up a fight to become the winner. Already a few days before the kick-off teams and organization were busy with skill competitions, swimming tests and qualification sprints.
Final results Frisian Solar Challenge 2008 (after six stages):
A-Class
1 – Hanze Solar Team (A2), Hanze Hogeschool, Groningen – 17:39:37
2 – Cree Yacht (A3), Gdansk Polen – 20:25:08
3 – Haagse Hogeschool Solarteam (A18), Rijswijk – 20:48:35
B-Class:
1 – BOB Solar Team (B16), Joure – 22:30:40
2 – Hogeschool Windesheim, Zwolle (B14), Joure – 22:44:29
3 – Solarboat Team Emden, Fachhochschule OOW, Emden, Duitsland – 22:50:11
C-Class:
1 – Delta Lloyd Solar BoatTeam (C5), Technische Universiteit Delft – 12:05:47
2 – Gowrings Energy (C10), Gowrings Continentall BV, Maasdam – 15:19:28
3- Feenstra’s Future (C9), Feenstra’s Installatiebedrijf, Schettens – 18:39:19
Extra prices:
| Fairplay price | Van Hall Larenstein/AOC from Leeuwarden | They helped other teams several times and they have also saved a skipper out of the water. |
| Innovation price | Het Teylingen College from Voorhout | They discovered a new method with ‘klunen’. (Walking with the solar boat on the shore.) |
| Consolation price |
Copacabana from Brasil | They have shown great courage to enter this project, and they stayed positive despite the immersion after the prologue. |
| Bad luck price | het Imperial College from London | With the finish of Leeuwarden in sight, they had to give up because of technical problems. |
We are working very hard to make an unprecedented success of the Frisian Solar Challenge 2010.
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