About Us

WE DEVELOPED A SIMPLE, REVOLUTIONARY PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY, EDDY VORTEX TECHNOLOGYTM (EVT), TO REPLACE THE 150-YEAR- OLD PROPELLER TECH FOUND ON EVERY VESSEL.

Maelstrom’s unrivaled technology makes boating more fun, more affordable, and safer. Maelstrom Props are drop-in replacements giving boat owners superior range, speed, and handling. Enjoy the world's toughest, most powerful and safest prop.

Our Team

Our team has a combined 90 years’ experience in tech development with ~100 patents in maritime and other sectors. We have filed international patents, and we are poised for production. Maelstrom is ready to boost the performance, reliability, and safety for every vessel afloat.

Chuck Pell, Owner and CEO of Maelstrom Propellers
CHARLES “CHUCK” PELL, CEO / Founder / Ecopreneur:

Chuck Pell is an engineer, inventor, scientist, & Emmy-award-winning TV host with extensive experience in surgical robotics, biomechanics & functional morphology, fluid dynamics, miniature robotics, and autonomous underwater vehicles. He is an Ecopreneur on his fourth startup solving the world’s problems one brilliant idea at a time. He co-founded Physcient with the current Maelstrom team, who designed innovative surgical instruments: hand-held robotic smart tools that sense — and respond — to their environment, which includes the patient and their tissues, improving patient outcomes by anticipating and preventing tissue trauma through intelligent application of modern biomechanics. Chuck was Co-Founder and Director of Science & Technology at Nekton Research. At Nekton, the team developed MicroHunter, the world’s smallest autonomous underwater robot and other record-breaking ocean robotic systems. The company was acquired by iRobot. Nekton spawned a spin-out— Parata Systems— that remains the gold standard in pharmacy automation. Before Nekton, Chuck co-founded and served as Director of the Duke University Zoology BioDesign Studio. Prior to Duke, he was the Director of R&D at Dinamation, a firm that built full-size robotic dinosaurs. Fascinated by shape, pattern and flow, Chuck also builds boomerangs, paleolithic tools, catapults, and kayaks, and gives talks around the world, from TEDMED to TV.

Susan Drake, Vice President of Business Development at Maelstrom Propellers
Susan Drake
Vice President of business development
Jess Forbes, Strategic Alliances Specialist  of Maelstrom Propellers
Jess Forbes
strategic alliances specialist
Josh Haygood, video producer at Maelstrom Propellers
Josh Haygood
video producer
Sarah Masiowski, Graphic/Web Designer and Photographer at Maelstrom Propellers
Sarah Masiowski
graphic & web designer, photographer