High-speed (40 to 200 mph) water surface craft experience high vibration and instability as the sea state and speed increases. Enormous increases in energy use and dissipation are experienced in surface craft that are designed to displace upward as they encounter waves.

This is the case with most surface craft, since they are designed to do just that. Water, although soft and compliant at low speed, is hard and non-compressible at high speed. Therefore, a wave at 10 knots is displaced whereas a wave at 100 knots is difficult to displace.

Travel over a surface at high speed requires an entirely different mechanism than traveling over that same surface at slow speed. While traveling on water in a high velocity vehicle, the characteristics of a sea state can therefore appear to change to one resembling a hilly desert or rocky terrain, which will rapidly destroy an un-cushioned or non-suspended vehicle.

Our craft are not displaced when meeting the sea, as are other lower technology vehicles. Our vessels cut through the waves with the minimum displacement required to advance on course, provide a safe, smooth, comfortable ride and dramatically increase speeds.