First, a few things that won't be obvious to the uninitiated:
1. This boat is out in serious weather. These aren't optimal conditions and it is easy to find other videos of trimarans moving much faster in better conditions. The amazing thing is that this boat moves so magnificently under these conditions. This isn't grace under pressure, it's grace in the teeth of hell.
2. If you wanna be out in weather like this you damn well better know what you are doing. And your boat had better be a good one. Take a trip down to your local marina and check out the power boats there. Every single one of them would be doomed in the conditions this trimaran handles. Even a Cigarette boat could not move through these waves like this boat does, it would flip or plunge and the occupants would probabaly die if they tried to keep up.
3. If you have any understanding of engineering at all, think of the stresses involved. You have three roughly sixty-foot long hulls and they have to move across a rough surface at speed and the whole structure has to remain rigid. This boat is not going to last long.
My she is yar. I hate saying things like "the human spirit: but she is an inspiration and a tribute to the human spirit.
Click here to see what I mean.
(Sorry but the owner of the video doesn't seem to allow embedding.)
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