MapisM
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TBH I have never seen the hull of an Abs Navetta. So, I can't tell you anything specific about it.Since the Navetta is not a full planing hull (although not quite a cruise ship hull) perhaps it’s more suited to pods than, say, a Absolute 52 fly
But in principle yes, pods are better suited for displacement rather than planing hull - so much so that they have been used for ages (well before IPS) in ships, tugs, and several others workboat categories.
The key issue with planing hulls is that builders must use tricks to place pods in a way that makes them rotate on an axis as vertical as possible.
This clashes against the fact that P monohulls are by definition V shaped - even the most sedate ones, with a moderate deadrise.
Not to mention deep vee hulls: if pods would be placed on hulls with a 20°+ degrees inclination of their rotation axis, they would make the boat capsize at the first hard turn at speed!