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.
Claims18
In an improved multi-hulled marine vehicle having two sidehulls, the improvement comprising:
- a trimmable submerged hydrofoil of, as seen in a vertical longitudinal plane of the improved multi-hulled marine vehicle, low water resistance airfoil shape and disposed, at least in its majority, aft of transom portions of and above keels of the two sidehulls of said improved multi-hulled marine vehicle where said sidehulls are separated over at least a majority of their length by a waterline, said trimmable hydrofoil spans 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 and which further comprises artificially pressurized gas cushions disposed in undersides of each of the two sidehulls.
In an improved multi-hulled marine vehicle having two sidehulls, the improvement comprising:
- artificially pressurized gas cushions disposed in the undersides of each of the two sidehulls of the multi-hulled marine vehicle, water deflecting steps alternatively interspersed with step recesses inset into outboard sides of each of the two sidehulls of said multi-hulled marine vehicle and wherein the step recesses are disposed external to the artificially pressurized gas cushions and above continuous sidehull chines of the multi-hulled marine vehicle.
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