Power Cats of the America's Cup

I think these are pretty interesting:

click-

 

Gooday - U-there - - Much more than just interesting I M H O

That 2nd power-cat - has some very interesting hulls for sure.

SUPA looking bow - long - lean - nice cut-away bow - minimum wetted-surface area - all those nice things & more.

Front beam is a nice long way back

Great transoms for a fab turn of speed - very little wash.

Wonder how far back the c/b's are - ho ho ho ho ha ha ooops but funny ???

Looks like the motors are well forward & just inside the hulls at the bakc of the superstructure ??? Wonder how much hp. Great looking 'mother-ship' - - Wish we had one of those for our sailing club - out here - don't suppose - Larry would consider a really cheap 'rental' - our young sailors could sure use a hand-out & I'm just short the $4 mil for all that infrastructure. DAMN. Ciao, chaps, james


SUPA neat looking toy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I green with 'lust' !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Looks they just utilized molds for AC racing cats to build couple of powercats

 

Gooday Alik - - can't you do better than that ??? Bows - well - just - - maybe - - but sterns - not in my lunch box. More smart - from you - is what we have all become used to - so give-over with the smart comment - not that - somewhat - trite - blurb, eh ??? Thanks, james

 

The first pictures hulls look somewhat Extreme 40 cat to my eyes, but I'm sure someone in this thread will tell me I'm wrong

DAVE

 

At least make them more practical, say access to bow could be provided. I have seen similar cats as Dr.May's concept and those were useless while eye catching.

 

=================
James, Alik is right -at least on the first picture. There is an article somewhere- maybe in the AC thread- where they used two AC 45 hulls to build that boat.....

 

A sail world article and video on the Team New Zealand chase cat for the AC72 catamaran.

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-Cat-chase-boat-ready-for-the-big-night-+-Video/99754

and the youtube video

 

Ya gotta love it when a POWER boat needs 1200hp to keep up with a sailing boat