Anyone see the monohull bashing segment on Discovery Channel the other night? Apparently this gentlemen named Creed designed a multihull that had a huge underwater displacment in the shape of a submarine hull that kept the boat stable in almost all conditions. He was laughed at in his time, but now there are a few boast built with this technology that seem to prove his point. SWATH (small waterplane area twin hull design). looks ugly, but sure worked well in the demonstartions Vs. monohulls. What was best was the bashing of monohulls. Ive never heard the word monohull used in any other place other than this forum with such disrespect. It was great! Multihulls do rule!
What was the name of the show??? I'm looking for the re-run already.
jrg
I would see the SWATH ships down in San Diego that the Navy had, pretty interesting. They can change the amount of ballast in the twin hulls and change the height above the water for the different conditions too....
Likewise - Tivo remote standing by.
I saw it on the discovery channel. The guy filled the submarine hulls with water so they would stay sumergerd. Cool show, It is called mega machines i think.
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Is that the same thing that Tom Clancy describes in his book "Splinter Cell"?
Quote from the book. Now that I know there really is such a thing, I am assuming that Clancy did his research:
Does that sound like what they were talking about on the Discovery Channel?
Thats exactly it. Cool show, catch it if you can.
For at least 10 years (probably longer) there's been a liveaboard dive boat called the Nekton Pilot that is a SWATH boat ... key in Nekton Pilot for a looksee ...
gary
David et al,
have a look at this movie to see the comparison of a monohull with a SWATH.
http://www.abeking.com/flash.html , then you go under ships and in the right lower corner go under SWATH.
Enjoy the movie!
Fritz
Flensburg, Germany
This show was replayed last night. It was amazing to see the difference when the SWATH ship was running side by side with the monohull. SWATH ship had a drink of water sitting on a counter while out the window in the backround the monohull was getting beat to he** by the seas. Really cool technology!
SWATH tech is very good but it's damn expensive. Works best for station keeping. It's not that fast and sucks on fuel economy. But for certain needs it's very forgiving and I wouldn't have it any other way. Did I mention maintenance is a bear!
Bob