Patent ID: 9718516
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B63B

Claim:
1. A trimaran boat, comprising: a pair of sidehulls; a center hull positioned between the pair of sidehulls; a deck extending substantially continuous from one sidehull across the center hull to the other sidehull; and a pair of center hull transitions and a pair of sidehull transitions; wherein the pair of sidehulls each have a length between about 35% and about 45% of a length of the center hull, a transom of each sidehull is generally flush with a transom of the center hull, a design water line length of the boat is about 36 to about 38 feet, a beam of the boat is about 15 feet, the center hull has a beam width of about 3.5 feet, and a centerline of each sidehull is about 7 feet from a centerline of the center hull; wherein the boat has optimum energy efficiency at speed between 14 and 20 knots.