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HY-X

After a very fruitful initial collaboration in the C-Class of the 2013 Little America’s Cup, the Swiss company Hydros expressed a desire to work once again with VPLP. The new remit was to design the HY-X, a flying motorboat featuring retractable foils which lift her hull about a metre out of the water.

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VPLP designed the hull, lifting surfaces and their associated control systems in collaboration with the design firm Ladida and engineers from Hydros and JM Koncept.

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And the prototype resulting from the simulator studies ticks all the boxes: performance, fuel savings of 30%, superlative handling and a comfortable ride. Nothing now stands in the way of this foiling concept being applied to many other types of motor vessel.

Launched

2014

Category

R&D

Architect

VPLP Design

Builder

Techno Marine

Materials

carbon

Length

6,0 m

Beam

2,5 m

Draft

0,8 m

Air Draft

1,5 m

Propulsion

Motor

Sail Area

Sailcoop

VELA

Canopée