"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
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Around 7/7/2005 8:38 PM, Steven Shelikoff wrote:

http://www.titan.com/investor/press-...id=30&select=5

Just in case the link doesn't work:

U.S. Navy's Littoral Surface Craft -- Experimental (X-Craft)
Successfully Completes Sea Trials

Mission Flexible Ship Achieves 50-Knot Certification Qualifying Speed;
Fastest large-craft in the U.S. Navy

They are being built about 15 miles from me on Whidbey Is, and they've
been running one here in the Puget Sound; I've seen it go by our house at
least a couple times on it's way to and from Admiralty Inlet.

It's big. It looks like a shoebox on pontoons. It's fast - Very fast. It's
noisy at speed, and it lays down one heck of a big wake.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

This thread put three frames me in mind of the "FastCats" built for B.C.
Ferries here in British Columbia, back in the '90s. Not the tonnage but

Three were built and one, or maybe two, were put into service but the heavy
wake and noise forced them to reduce speeds to 20 knots, more or less what
the conventional ferries were making, and decreasing hull efficiency,
increasing fuel and maintenance costs, but carrying fewer vehicles and
passengers. $400 mil in the making, sold on the auctioneers block for a mere
$13 million. For all three. To the builders.

Some pics on this site as they were (third frame down) and some drawingboard
proposals being studied.

http://www.sfu.ca/casr/mp-navalsc3.htm and
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/mp-navalsc4.htm

Don