In a 20-knot breeze, the steel-hulled yacht can easily accelerate past 14 knots, or 16mph.
The IMO's rules require all single-hulled vessels to be phased out, but not until 2015.
Two European companies and one American company are working on rival designs to FastShip's, including multi-hulled vessels.
At the mortar it is hulled by two to four persons using gavels in a fixed rhythm.
In 2007 the people of Hawaii gave him a present of a double-hulled canoe, the Alingano Maisu.
In August 2007, I traveled to Greenland from Svalbard across the North Atlantic in a Russian double-hulled former spy vessel.
In 1859, the first iron-hulled armored warship, Britain's HMS Warrior, was launched.
The steel vessel is double-hulled and designed for drilling in Arctic waters.
This huge, aluminum hulled beast that I had seen last night was stopping by the fuel dock a block away from my door.
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The three-skate, green-hulled craft was built in 1930 by Clare S. Jacobs, a Grosse Pointe, Mich. manufacturer who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola machines.
Like the U.S.S. Constellation, an elegant 19th-century wood-hulled warship moored in the nearby harbor, the old investment firm was once written off as a relic.
Inflatable space habitats (as opposed to the hard aluminum-hulled canisters now in use on the International Space Station) may sound wild, but the technology is real.
Cooking is usually carried out outdoors: hulled wheat, chunks of meat on the bone, onions, spices, water and oil are added to the cauldron and cooked all night.
However, the need for Chinese junks has decreased sharply as wooden vessels are replaced by steel-hulled ships, and today only three masters can claim full command of this technology.
If Ellison wins, he can force Bertarelli into a match against his DoGZilla, which has an anticipated top speed of more than 40mph, compared with about 20mph for single-hulled Cup boats.
Ryan Swift, editor of Asia-Pacific Boating magazine, says that Chinese yacht builders are a "mixed bag" but some, such as Kingship's steel and aluminum hulled vessels, are beginning to gain recognition.
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The three-skate, green-hulled craft was built in 1930 by Clare S. Jacobs, a Grosse Pointe, Mich. manufacturer who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) machines.
There was a precedent supporting the Europeans: American green laws insist that ships docking locally be double hulled, even though that forces ship owners to pay for unwanted double hulls on international waters en route to American ports.
As much as 150, 000 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel and about 12, 000 gallons of other petroleum products are on board the Kulluk, a double-hulled steel vessel with a helicopter landing pad and tower in the middle designed for drilling in Arctic waters.
The European Commission and International Maritime Organisation have ruled that single-hulled tankers must be taken out of service by 2010 the original deadline of 2015 was brought forward after the Prestige oil spill in 2002 which means that at least 1, 400 tankers will need to be broken up.
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