Can the Colossal Carbon catamarans continue to sail in difficult conditions at the load limits of Wave Slam?

We know that high-tech catamaran sailboats have challenges with “wave loading” where the boat pulls away from a wave and topples over. The US military also has giant catamarans or even warships designed with three hulls. Imagine sailing through a storm offshore in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Let’s take this conversation to the next level, shall we?

Remember 4 years ago when an environmentalist ship financed by an American billionaire tried to interfere with a Japanese whaling ship? If there wasn’t an interesting article to read in Merco Press on January 7, 2010 titled; “Japanese whalers and environmental ships ram on the high seas,” it said; “Anti-whaling activists accused a Japanese ship of ramming their high-tech speedboat during a standoff in the Southern Ocean. Video of the incident appeared to show that the Japanese ship badly damaged the Ady Gil, but all six crew members were rescued.” “.

The Sea Shepard (high-tech catamaran) was destroyed. Watching the video, it seemed like that design was having a lot of trouble dealing with waves, and the wave hitting the carbon composite hull, it couldn’t go any faster and was taking a beating just to get to the location, even before that it ran into the side of the Japanese whaling ship.

Regarding the challenges of wave hitting, there is an interesting research paper entitled; “Wave Strike on High-Speed ​​Wave-Piercing Catamaran Ferries in Large Seas,” by Michael Davis, Dr. Damien Holloway, Dr. Jason Lavroff, School of Engineering, where abstract is noted;

“The size of the vessels has increased from 85 to 417 passenger cars and they can now carry 567 m of cargo trucks. The vessels have been in service with the RAN and the US Navy. The company continues to expand speed , range and payload performance A motor vessel is being built with an operating speed of 50 knots Cargo and military transport vessels have been exposed to much more severe wave conditions than passenger vessels and this has increased the need for better prediction of structural loads due to waves.”

Right now, engineers are using scientific computer modeling to predict the force and then design the helmet to handle it, but it may be time to completely redesign those helmets. Maybe those helmets need a way to lessen the shock caused by a helmet being knocked down. Maybe we need new flexible materials to take some of the shock off, maybe we could use bumps with shocks, maybe the hull needs an extended knife-edge hydrofoil with multiple wings to pop out as needed to break the fall and put the full weight of the ship. and the momentum focused on a point causing failure or cracks in the hull? Please consider all this and think about it.