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prototype planing under motor 1

Apart from testing the rig, we ran the boat under power to look more closely at its extraordinary performance with such a small outboard. This shot dramatically demonstrates the hull's low-drag characteristics. With 15 h.p. generating 16 knots of speed the hull creates the standard rooster tail astern, but almost no bow-wave or quarter wave. This in turn helps to explain how it achieves its speed with such a small power input.

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Uploaded on October 8, 2010
Taken in October 2010