摘要 |
<p>This disclosure relates to hulls for planing or semi-planing water craft. The hull (4) has an abruptly down-swept trailing edge portion (18) which, in the preferred embodiment, is in the form of a flap (18) extending across the full width of the transom of the hull and which projects beyond the level of an upswept portion of the underside (14) of the hull by flap chord (Cf) representing only a small fraction of the length (L) of the hull (4). According to another aspect of the invention, a hull (4) having a lightly cambered nose portion (5, 10, 12) is also described.</p> |