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  2. High-speed craft - Wikipedia

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    A high-speed craft (HSC) is a high-speed water vessel for civilian use, also called a fastcraft or fast ferry. The first high-speed craft were often hydrofoils or hovercraft , but in the 1990s catamaran and monohull designs become more popular.

  3. Moth (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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    The Moth is a small development class of sailing dinghy.Originally a small, fast home-built sailing boat designed to plane, since 2000 it has become an expensive and largely commercially produced boat designed to hydroplane on foils though many are still built at home, typically at much lower cost.

  4. Sorrento - Wikipedia

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    Sorrento is served by ferry or hydrofoil from Naples or Capri as well as by boat services from the ports of the Bay of Naples and the Sorrentine Peninsula. Naples is served by two ports, Mergellina and Molo Beverello. Sorrento is connected to Naples by the Circumvesuviana rail line. Friends of Sorrento [21] has details of buses serving Sorrento.

  5. Voskhod (hydrofoil) - Wikipedia

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    Voskhod was designed to replace older passenger hydrofoil boats: Raketas and Meteors. The first boat of this type was built at the Morye shipbuilding plant in Feodosiya, USSR). By the early 1990s, around 150 Voskhod boats had been built.

  6. Hydrofoil - Wikipedia

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    A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water. They are similar in appearance and purpose to aerofoils used by aeroplanes. Boats that use hydrofoil technology are also simply termed hydrofoils. As a hydrofoil craft gains speed, the hydrofoils lift the boat's hull out of the water, decreasing drag and allowing greater speeds.

  7. Boeing 929 Jetfoil - Wikipedia

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    Jetlink Ferries Ltd. Feb 1979: 1980 Terceira: Far East Hydrofoil / TurboJET Hong Kong: Active No. 13: Jet Ferry One: P&O Jet Ferries: Sep 1979: 1982 Funchal: Far East Hydrofoil / TurboJET Hong Kong: Active No. 14 HMS Speedy (P296) Royal Navy Jan 1979 1982 Speedy Princess - Lilau Far East Hydrofoil / TurboJET Hong Kong Scrapped in 2021 (Retired ...

  8. Sailing hydrofoil - Wikipedia

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    A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the hydrofoils lift the hull up and out of the water, greatly reducing wetted area, resulting in decreased drag and increased speed. A sailing hydrofoil can achieve speeds exceeding double and in some ...

  9. USS Pegasus (PHM-1) - Wikipedia

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    The PHM project was not only a US project. Other countries involved included Italy, Germany, Canada and Great Britain. During the initial phase of the project it was planned to build up to 100 hydrofoil boats for the NATO navies. Following the retirement of Admiral Zumwalt, the Navy reduced funding for the PHM project.

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