In one you can just see the water coming over the bow in one of these video's but this is mostly because the resolution is so poor. Even the bow and sterns waves are obscured by the poor resolution.
On thing that does strike me in these video's are the laboratory like conditions on this pond. Winds are 6 to 8 knots at least as the skipper can be seen to lift the hull while trapping but the water looks as flat as a pancake. When you look on the inside of the leeward hull you can see how small the chop really is, my guess about 4 inches. It is difficult to tell what the wind is doing.
Basically it is hard to tell anything from these video's, probably intentionally.
If the designers are playing around with pressure distribution along the waterline length of the hulls, much like the designers of larger freighters did with the bulb keels, then I would expect this design to have sweet spots and not-so-sweet spots. Basically the pressures along the hull vary with different boat speeds, crew weights and conditions (weather and water surface).
If they can pull it off to have a hull that manages to minimize to wave system over a wide range of conditions and crew weights then they will have achieved something remarkable. The big word here is of course "if".
I still would like to see this hull in some real chop.
Wouter
Wouter Hijink Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild) The Netherlands
