There is not much point in designing one of the world’s leading, new energy platforms, unless the platform 
itself is at the cutting edge, in this case, of international naval architectural design.
Australia boasts being the world’s leader in fast ferry design, and the designer in Australia with the best track record in hull efficiency, is the design group, One2Three Design, based in Sydney.
Critical to efficiency at sea are two core things, minimal skin friction, and excellent hull shaping to, well, deal with those pesky waves you find out there. Add light, well distributed weight, and some good old fashioned sea keeping abilities, and TRYBRID is indeed leading naval architecture into a filed on new ideas.
The very long thin central hull is doing most of the heavy lifting, and the width of multi-hull not only provides stability, but also, th
e expansive platform needed to support huge areas of photovoltaic solar cells.
In a small loft office just south of Sydney Airport, Steve Quigley, Rob Tulk and 3D guru Esteban are working in collaboration with project manager Rod Davis, to progressively work up a hull form that is super easy to propel, practical to deploy, and rather original in form.
There has been many ideas generated and explored, but the basic principle of keeping the hull radically long and narrow are core to the efficiency sought…we need speed yes, but not by wasting energy getting onto, and staying on the plane, on an ocean that ain’t flat.
The photos give a peak into the One2 Three design office, where weeks have been spent shaping up the designs, first in a general plan layout, and the into 3D, as now.