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  2. High-performance sailing - Wikipedia

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    High-performance sailing is achieved with low forward surface resistance—encountered by catamarans, sailing hydrofoils, iceboats or land sailing craft—as the sailing craft obtains motive power with its sails or aerofoils at speeds that are often faster than the wind on both upwind and downwind points of sail.

  3. International C-class catamaran - Wikipedia

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    The C-Class Catamaran is a high-performance developmental class sailing catamaran. They are very light boats which use rigid wing sails and can sail at twice the speed of the wind. [ 1 ] They are used for match races known as the International Catamaran Challenge Trophy and its successor the International C-Class Catamaran Championship - both ...

  4. Hemisphere (yacht) - Wikipedia

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    Hemisphere is the largest sailing catamaran (two hulls) and the largest sailing private yacht catamaran in the world since 2011. [1] [2] She is 145 feet (44 m) long and built by boat builder Pendennis (UK). The vessel has won five different industry awards, including for the interior finishing. [1]

  5. Catamaran - Wikipedia

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    Howard and Doane describe the following tradeoffs between cruising monohulls and catamarans: [38] A long-distance, offshore cruising monohull may be as short as 30 feet (9.1 m) for a given crew complement and supporting supplies, whereas a cruising catamaran would need to be 40 feet (12 m) to achieve the same capacity. In addition to greater ...

  6. Taipan Catamaran - Wikipedia

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    It is a highly popular class in Australia, and is a favourite amongst high-performance racing purists. Designed by Greg Goodall And Jim Boyer in the early 1980s the 4.9 metre Taipan was a development of the Mosquito catamaran, lightweight and more similar to the A class in hull design.

  7. HSC Francisco - Wikipedia

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    HSC Francisco is a high-speed catamaran built by Incat in Hobart, Tasmania. Powered by liquefied natural gas, [4] she is currently the fastest passenger ship in service, reaching a speed of 58 knots (107 km/h; 67 mph). Propulsion is by two GE LM2500 gas turbines, coupled with two Wärtsilä water-jets.

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