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.
not a hydro expert, but those shots look like very light air and a huge bow wave for the speed, Aerynt observed in the F20 forum, the bow wave is quite different, so how do you get from that to zero bow wave at other speeds? seems a bit backwards to me, but then its hard to ignore how clean it looks on the water otherwise (the videos's). Also noted in an earlier post that they thought the optimum crew position was further aft than shown in most shots, seems they don't move from upwind to downwind. Whats hard to ignore is that the mast seems to be stationary in any of the video's, have never seen that before. And last of all, who the hell is Retired Geek ?
