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In 1954 George Garcia, owner of Falls City Flying Service, introduced the ‘Marinette’ which was an aluminum houseboat initially built as a twin-hulled cruiser. Choosing to use an aluminum-magnesium alloy, whereas previous attempts at an aluminum watercraft had mainly involved small row boats made of a copper-aluminum alloy , the same ...
HSV-2 Swift is a hybrid catamaran.She was privately owned and operated by Sealift Inc., and was originally built under the JHSV program as a proof of concept.As part of this program, she was directly leased for evaluation from her builders by the United States Navy Military Sealift Command from 2003 to 2013, primarily as a mine countermeasures and sea basing test platform.
The Lagoon 500 is a recreational catamaran. It has a fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, two sets of swept spreaders and aluminum spars with 1X19 stainless steel wire rigging. The hulls have raked stems , reverse transoms with swimming platforms, dual internally mounted spade-type rudders controlled by a wheel on a flying bridge and ...
The boat has a draft of 4.27 ft (1.30 m) with the standard twin keels. [1] [2] The boat is fitted with twin Swedish Volvo Penta diesel engines of 40 hp (30 kW) each, for docking and maneuvering. A hybrid electric/diesel propulsion system was a factory option, which included the ability to charge the batteries using the propellers regeneratively ...
For example, the M-19 can mount a 40 horsepower (30 kW) outboard, the M-26-X can mount a 50 horsepower (37 kW) outboard and the M-26-M can mount a 60 horsepower (45 kW) outboard. With these large engines, the boats are capable of speeds of over 20 knots (37 km/h), and the M-26-M brochure shows a picture of the boat pulling a waterskier.
Lagoon have also produced some power catamarans, including the Lagoon Power 43 and Lagoon Power 44. Lagoon boats smaller than 50 ft (15 m) are built at Belleville-sur-Vie and launched at Les Sables-d'Olonne in Vendée. Boats over 50 feet long are built at the CNB shipyard in Bordeaux. By 2021 the company had produced 6,000 catamarans. [12]