Hickman sea sled
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The Hickman Sea Sled is an inverted vee planing hull invented by Albert Hickman
. The Sea Sled is a direct forefather of the modern high speed catamaran
or tunnel hull
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W. Albert Hickman
William Albert Hickman was a Canadian designer and manufacturer of innovative fast boats. He is best known as the inventor of the Hickman Sea Sled....
. The Sea Sled is a direct forefather of the modern high speed catamaran
Catamaran
A catamaran is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure, the most basic being a frame, formed of akas...
or tunnel hull
Tunnel hull
A tunnel hull is a type of boat hull that uses two typically planing hulls with a solid center that traps air. This entrapment then creates aerodynamic lift in addition to the planing lift from the hulls. Many times this is attributed to ground effect...
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A new type of vessel, which promises to revolutionize water craft and which takes the same place on the water that the automobile does on land - Scientific AmericanScientific AmericanScientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
26 September 1914