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Most of them have been purposely edited in low definition on the very dark side of the colour spectrum.
However expecially pic no. 5, 6 an 7 give an idea of the hull shape. What do you think about it?




It has the general shape of a catamaran hull, alright.

Whats the idea with the black-out and and low res ? You are not seriously thinking that you're protecting some top secret design features. are you ? Besides, looks more like this object in the picture is covered with filler (see the patches) to smooth out the hull. Well, you have to get up to weight somehow. Also the hull looks surprisingly alot like a XJ hull (A-cat) when looking at the sterns. In fact I can't really tell from any picture wether it is actually a new hull with enough volume for an F18 or just a solarized XJ hull. It also looks rather narrow on the deck line to me, as well as having narrow sterns. And why is the left hull blacked out in pic 5 ? In pic 4 you can see this left hull better (now in the background) Looks wider at the deck and more volumious in the sterns. It even has pintles on its sterns and it is definately not a Jav-2 or Jav-16 hull. In the other pics the big 4-X logo is covering it up mostly. Look alot like a capricorn F18 hull actually. Humm, would that mean .... ?

Anyway if the hull in the foreground is the one we are talking about then that boat it is still some way from completion. It looks like the design has made it off the drawing board and the very first hull (without a deck, note the between the beams) is under construction.

Boy am I feeling sarcastic today. Although that "mission impossible" feel to the provided pictures didn't really help in getting over this mood.

I mean, COME ON ! Just show us the normal pictures or don't show us anything.

Wouter


Wouter Hijink
Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild)
The Netherlands