Design: Wave Piercing Cruiser cat

Pete Melvin wants to apply experience gained with his wave piercing racing beach cats like the Infusion and A-Class models to cruising catamarans.

Although wp hulls are being used quite often in power ferry boats, large Trimarans amas like Groupama 3, Banque Populaire and others (but this ocean going sail multihulls have a traditional main center hull) this is the 1st time to my knowledge this technology is being applied to cruising catamarans.
Without bow reserve volume up this design aims to reduce pitch poling and provide a more pleasant ride, certainly volume distribution may change but you need volume there, in any shape or form you like, but is has to be present.

Wave piercing beachcats always lacked volume in front until the Infusion came to scene and this Pete Melvin design is now the top performer in the F18 class which sails under 21m2 spi and I´m haven´t heard any report about the Infusion suffering from pitch pole “illness” like some other wp F18s, quite contrary the Infusion seems to nail the right shape and volume distribution for the perfect F18.

Cruising catamarans needs also reserve volume, as they are large boat aimed to pleasure and safety sailing. So I would like to see some saling footage in the future of this design.
Remember wave piercing bows are not rake profiles, there´s a cross section distribution that is quite describable as a Tiger-Tornado bow “upside-down”.

For more info check:
www.aeroyacht-supercats.com
www.morrellimelvin.com