Cat with one driven hull

[Sundays_Child]

One beamier SD hull with engine and master in it, one thinner hull... interesting:

http://aspenpowercatamarans.com/pages/technology.html

 

[pau1gray]

Doesn't a one legged duck swim in circles?

 

[pampas]

!/2 the carbon foot print !!!!

 

[Sundays_Child]

That was my first thought!

The founder was with Glacier Bay (largest power cat company in the world, apparently) for 15 years, so I guess he knows what he's doing.

 

[Bajansailor]

Assymmetric hulls on (displacement) power cats tend to generally be pretty directionally stable.
I found this out with the cat in my avatar - 49' long, and 16' beam - when one of her engines packed up, she still proceeded happily in a straight line on one engine with no offset helm required - and I was thinking she would want to go around in circles like the one legged duck might tend to do.....

 

[RobWales]

Its the same with sub 10mtr planing cat hulls, a lot of fishermen use the Cheetah marine design of cat with just one engine on one of the hulls to no ill effect.