High efficiency high speed ship
OwnerDonald E. Burginventor
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Abstract
Presented is a high efficiency high-speed boat or ship that has multiple hulls. These multiple hulls can include recesses in their undersides that are supplied with pressurized air to form supporting air cushions. There is a support and stability adding hydrofoil disposed between two of the multi-hulls and one trimmable hydrofoil mounted to the transom in the preferred embodiment of the invention. There are water deflecting steps forward of recesses inset in one or more sides of the multi-hulls where such recesses are preferably above the sidehull chines.
Claims28
In an improved multi-hulled marine vehicle, the improvement comprising:
- a trimmable hydrofoil disposed, at least in its majority, aft of transom portions of and above keels of two sidehulls of said improved multi-hulled marine vehicle, said trimmable hydrofoil spans at least a majority of a distance between the sidehulls, wherein said trimmable hydrofoil is in mechanical communication with the transom portions, and wherein force for movement of said trimmable hydrofoil is supplied by a powered actuator.
In an improved multi-hulled marine vehicle, wherein the improvement comprises:
- at least one step recess inset into a side of one of the sidehulls, wherein a water deflecting sidehull step is disposed forward of the step recess, and wherein the step recess is disposed above a sidehull chine.
In an improved multi-hulled marine vehicle, the improvement comprising:
- water deflecting steps alternatively interspersed with step recesses inset into sides of sidehulls of said multi-hulled marine vehicle and wherein the step recesses are disposed above sidehull chines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.