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Tired of the same boring ship designs? Looking for a truely ground breaking design that is beautiful and technologically advanced. Than the Proteus is the boat for you. The Proteus is a new style of boat designed by engineer Ugo Conti. The Bay Area inventor is a former defense contractor that fell in love with the ocean after he retired. Conti had just one problem, sea sickness. he then spent the next several years designing a boat that would allow him and anyone else to enjoy traveling by sea. The Proteus’ design is a twin catamaran, but that is only the beginning, it has so many upgrades that even the US Navy is testing them out. With the ability to travel 5000 miles on one 2000 gallon tank of fuel, it is a very versatile craft. Now if I only had a couple of million dollars to drop on one.
 We've been enamoured of boats named "Proteus" ever since that movie Fantastic Voyage decades ago. Now this Proteus is real, scooting around San Francisco Bay last week like some kind of water bug. The 100-foot catamaran was built by Silicon Valley big wigs, and has inflatable hulls that draft just a foot of water.
Powered by two 355hp diesel engines, it has a range of 5000 miles, and it qualifies as a go-fast boat with its top speed of 70mph. It's a smooth ride, too, where its cabin is suspended beneath titanium spring-loaded struts leading from hulls, absorbing the shock
(gizmodo)
References: wam-v, gizmodo
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