PS If you want to go off on a tangent, get into a discussion with the guy purposing Torpedo shaped submarine hulls for a catamaran sailboat.
Well that boat would be a pitchpole waiting to happen.
Why do you think that? to my mind the thing that prevents pitchpolling is more volume in the bows, and a low drag bow regardless of the trim of the boat.
If you take Hakans view to the extreme, that any volume above the water line is wasted, then a torpedo would be a good shape if not the best.
Gareth
