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| Originally Posted by YachtForums I
This led to the conclusion that further research was needed ...
With these objectives in mind, ... The result is a slender stabilised monohull, more commonly referred to as a trimaran.
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Hmmm,...., I wonder if this boat was somehow related to this program.
I am actually still interested in buying this one as a "commuter boat" if and when I get that job in Virginia Beach. (I simply refuse to drive over that bridge ever day).
Purpose built, she set new standards for transporting four persons across rough water at high speed while minimizing slamming loads. The hull is built in a trimaran configuration. By limiting the beam of the center hull to 4.5 feet at the chine, using an extreme deadrise angle of 32 deg., slamming loads are reduced to 20% of those of a conventional monohull. The outer hulls serve to preserve stability.
This project was initiated by Anadrome Design, LLC, in Sept. of 1999. The principal designer is Dick Newick who is famed for his OSTAR (transatlantic single handed) winning sailing trimarins. The chief engineer was Keith Burgess of Maine Composites. Consultants who have contributed to this design are Adrian Thompson, the designer of the VSV wave piercing craft in Great Britain and Harry Schoell Marine Design of Pompano Beach, Florida.
In 2000, the full-scale prototype was built. A
pretensioned monocoque aluminum alloy hull was computer-plasma cut in Canada by the jet boat racing champion, Rob Chrunyk, of Eagle Power Boats, and fabricated by Neil Malam of Aluminum Master in Clarkston, Washington. The construction combined state-of-the-art aluminum construction with composite panels. Since delivery of the boat for field testing in Maine in July of 2000, progressive experiments with differing engines, drives, and running surfaces have led to the boat presented at the Miami Boat Show of 2002.
The current vessel is powered by a fresh-water-cooled, fuel-injected gasoline V-8 built and rigged by Innovation Marine of Sarasota, Fla., closely resembling the specifications of the endurance motors they build for the Navy SEALS. The propulsion system is a series 1750 surface drive from PSI of Pompano Beach, Fla.
Cool, eh?
