trimaran

The trimaran Banque Populaire V [1] has the unrestricted record at 3d 15h 25min 48s and 33 knots [2].

This is clearly not at all the same class as the Independence, the Cleveland isn't a trimaran.

This record was not beaten until this millennium, by a racing trimaran, and even then by less than 10%.

A trimaran could accommodate wind turbines and a certain number of standard containers that would also act as ballast.

That trimaran contender still looks pretty normal, although if it uses a kite, that's definitely interesting.

A recent real-world example is the boat that won the America's Cup this time around, Oracle's 90-foot trimaran BOR 90.

There was a company out of San Francisco some years back that built several versions of an auto-foiling kite powered trimaran.

The first was the Microship trimaran, designed by him (using off-the-shelf parts) and could run on wind, sun or even pedal power.

Børge Ousland rounded world on Arctic Ocean with a small trimaran in 2010.

There's currently a 100-ft foiling trimaran in the southern ocean that is racing the clock around the world attempting the around the world record.

Why is this boat considered a catamaran and not a trimaran?

For an ocean-going trimaran, their 10 knot speed is not fast.

It sounds like the "outriggers" are the two outer hulls of the trimaran.

There are plenty of failure videos for the gigantic trimarans used in the America’s cup (search term “America's cup trimaran capsize”), and I think not all of them were in public races.