catamaran

Load up 20-40 tourists on the catamaran (based on the size), and charge them something like $40-50 each.

Then someone shows up with a catamaran with a wing sail and they have to regiger the rules again.

In the context of a planing catamaran, flying refers to allowing the windward hull to lift out of the water in order to minimize wetted surface area.

It's four hours by ferry, or 2 hours 45 by fast catamaran ferry, from Liverpool.

Hoverspeed, operator of the English Channel hovercraft ferries, converted fully to catamaran operations in 2000.

There was a proposal to build lots of fast, highly maneuverable catamaran vessels using stealth technology and armed with cruise missiles.

You're in a catamaran, at least you have two hulls rather than just one.

The linked article didn't really help me understand what the catamaran-with-wing-sail did...

I was actually thinking about using this on the surface of titanium on a catamaran.

That surprises me - I would have thought they would have disallowed the catamaran entirely.

I rely heavily on other designs, as I'm no nautical engineer, but I do pull elements from different craft designs (its a catamaran).

Depending on the surface, from 1.6 times the true wind speed in a catamaran on water, to 5 or more times the wind speed in an iceboat.

A miami-bahamas GEV plane could make the trip in 20 minutes vs 2 hours for a "high speed" catamaran ferry.