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G. Prout and Sons of Canvey Island, Essex, in the United Kingdom, was initially a builder of folding dinghies, canoes and kayaks founded in 1935.In the 1950s, the company moved to the construction of small sailing catamarans with Shearwater I and later Shearwater III, which the National Maritime Museum describes as the first production catamaran in the world. [2]
The list of modern world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the 'superboat' era – the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over 45 feet (14 m) in length, and soon three- and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable 35-to-40 ...
As of 2019, APBA sanctioned Class One racing is being held by Powerboat P1 under the name Class One USA, with catamarans racing strictly regulated sterndrive Mercury Racing 9.0L 1100 hp twin turbocharged V8 motors, and unlimited power for mono-hulls. The Victory team from the UAE is the current defending championship team.
The Spirit of Dallas catamaran on White Rock Lake A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States. A catamaran (/ ˌ k æ t ə m ə ˈ r æ n /) (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability ...
Ships Pennant number Origin Picture Class Displacement Note High-aspect-ratio twin-hull (HARTH) missile corvette (4) Shahid Soleimani: FS313-01 Iran Shahid Soleimani-class
The M32 (formerly the Marstsrom 32) is a class of sailing catamaran designed by Göran Marström and Kåre Ljung [1] and first built in 2010 by Marstrom Composite AB. [2] The design and production rights were sold in 2013 to Aston Harald Composite AB led by Håkan Svensson and run by Killian Bushe.
VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin-gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges.The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder), [1] [2] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
A GA-7 Cougar on the ramp at Les Cedres Quebec, May 2005. The Gulfstream American GA-7 Cougar is an American all-metal, 4-seat, twin-engined light aircraft.The Cougar was a twin-engine development of the Gulfstream American AA-5B Tiger and traces its lineage to the AA-1 Yankee Clipper and the Bede BD-1.