Fundamental Research: The Science That Shatters The More Than 100 Years of Industry Lies
True fundamental research is not about polishing marketing gimmicks or tweaking outdated designs. It's about having the courage to question authoritative practices and mindsets--the ones that have long dictated the industry's logic--using real-life facts. And it's about rigorously fixing their fatal flaws from the very scientific root.
For over a decade, this is exactly what we have focused on in our fundamental research: We do not just study high-performance boat failures--we dissect the broken "basic theories" that make those failure inevitable, because, only by reconstructing the industry's working logic can we fundamentally eliminate the existing flaws and build a better future.
The Industry's Dirty Secret: The "Authoritative Theory" Is Just the Scientific Root of the 100-Year Suffering
Every industry advances only through breakthroughs in basic-theory-based architecture innovation. Yet the high performance boat industry has stagnated for over a century--chained to a single lie: the "violent motions"(making the ride in real life full of pitching, rolling, heaving, rocking, jumping, transom throwing, side skidding, sharp heeling, bow steering, etc) are globally accepted as a "necessary trade-off" for performance by purposely hiding the truth of compromising fundamental safety for pleasing flat water data.
The lie is baked into the "authoritative theories" governing every mainstream hull design: from hard-chined deep-V hulls to catamarans, trimarans and hulls of other forms.
The problem? These theories have fatal flaws in their scientific working logic--flaws encoded into the "DNA", the basic architecture platform of every boat. They do not just "cause problems"--they create the "world-class bottlenecks" that keep the industry stuck. To help better observe how the industry is made to keep stagnating, we will get the hard-chined deep-V hull architecture as example to explore how it comes to fatally decide the fatal problems of the industry, considering more than 99% of high performance boats of today are developed just on this basic hull architecture platform.
The Hard-chined Deep-V Hull Theory:
Its "deep-V shaped" bottom is supposed to "cut waves", but it actually amplifies vertical forces. Why? Because stability, seakeeping ability and efficiency are inherently conflicting--and stability has to be always prioritized over the others to make the boat stable and upright on water as the most decisive key to safety.
Thus, when a wave hits the bow, the endless conflicts in parameters setting will make the bow to inherently and horribly lift high above water to allow the wave to directly slam the midship hull bottom and then the boat will fall down and heavily slam onto the surface of the sea by gravity force (just like falling from a 3-story building and even far higher, subject to boat speed, location of lonmgitudinal center of gravity and wave height), triggering "slamming loads" that crack the hull structures, damage machinery and injure crews (Breakdowns are not found in sea trial acceptance test just because the time is yet to come but common sense tells us this is something unavoidable and only waiting to happen, since nothing can sustain proper working in such harsh working environment).
You can see the flaws clearly shown in the GA drawing below--it's from a so-called "world-class safe boat" designed and built by a top US shipyard. This drawing alone shows how the DNA flaws are baked into every hard-chined deep-V hull based boat.
The Spray Rails/Lifting Strakes Theory:
The "sharp rails (also called lifting strakes) with flat bottom" running along and situated close to the hull's keel line with approx. 2-3 rails on each hull bottom side are designed to "deflect sprays" to the sides for different speeds in an violent manner, rather than gently redirecting or trapping water to get the sprays to gently and steadily lift the hull. This fundamental flaw in design mean today's spray rails not only increase hull drag in real-life irregular waves (though it reduce drag in flat water due to added lift and reduced wetted areas above dynamic waterline), but also worsen both lateral and longitudinal instability because of creating force concentration in an imbalanced way. Worse still, in irregular waves, they alter the hull's trim angle violently--slowing forward momentum, turning small swells into even far more violent rocking, jumping and flying-out and ultimately deteriorating the working environment for the crews, the structures, the machinery, the equipment, the electronics and the sensors.
Please just take a look at below GA drawing from a so-called world-class safe and capable boat designbed and built by a premium US shipyard as example to show how the flaws are baked into the DNA of boats built on the problematic hard-chined deep-V hull architecture with an even more problematic spray rails setting:
Yet, The Industry's Rule Bar Doubles Down on The Lie:
Instead of fixing these flaws, the industry rule doubles down:
Class societies set low safety bars: These bars give huge room for poorly designed boats to easily satisfy through the way of performance limiting--no military, paramilitary or professional boat users obeys. Why? Because the performance limits imposed by these rule-based standards are far lower than what real-life mission demands.
Besides, low safety bars setting only considering simple dimensional factors by class rules also means that designers have no interest to tackle challenges of real life--They prefer to focus on how to make the boat look pleasing.
The conflict between low safety bars by class rules and high performance required by mission helps bring an even worse situation: Boats for real-life missions are always used with performance far higher than limited by safety bars thus far higher risks are made to reality but all parties like designers, builders and class societies can safely get rid of the responsibility by law except the users--This explains why users are always regarded by law as the responsible party in the result of investigations of many tragedies recorded worldwide.
Thus, unless foundational working logic of the boats is changed, otherwise the ridiculous cycle will be made to play endlessly again and again.
The Ridiculous World: Evidences Showing A World Full of Endless Failures and Crew Injuries Are Marketed as Evidences of What A World-class Safe and Capable Boat Shall Be Like
Top brands and countless followers market danger as capacity: Premium US/EU/UK/Australian designers and builders of so-called "elite" brands advertise safety-threatening behaviors as "proof of world-class safety and performance" by showing such visually identified, real-life based, horribly violent riding motions of their boats at the most outstanding place of their marketing documents and website, as evidence to indicate "Our boat stays intact even when it moves violently like such"--then call violent jumping "agility" and bone-jarring slamming "seakeeping" of "world class"--This is criminal!
Just as shown by below exampled boats (Regardless of hull size, structural material, propulsion and functionalities) which are all best designed boats of today from the most reputed and expeienced US/EU/UK/Australian designers and builders and marketed as boats with world-class safety and tough mission capabilities--The sea is visually justified to be still very gentle with no significant waves or swells but the boats have been made to be so horribly exciting by their shared problematic DNA, abruptly pitching, rolling, heaving, rocking, jumping and even fully flying out from water: Please, just follow common sense with no need of in-depth knowledge and ask yourself if you can work properly and avoid being injured in such harsh working environment inherently brought by the problematic hull architecture platform, then, you will come to understand why the life of a high performance boat for open sea mission is so full of failures, full of energy wasting, full of capabilities limiting and full of crew injuries/deaths, wordwide, throughout every government agency!
So, why are they continuously doing such way? Because such violent riding motions are the most outstanding, easiest visually identified characters in the rides of their boats--They have no fact-based, scientifically workable evidence to prove the good of their boats but they have to tell the clients their boats are not simply good but also world-class in safety and capability for stimulating sales: This is why an irresponsible misleading-based selling pitch is made to reality--It is high time to disclose this dirty fact to the public!
The evidenced results?
Evidence No.1: At High Speed Ahead Even With No Significant Waves, The Hull Platform Has Been Made to Be A Weapon Deadly Fighting the Sea, The Boat and The Users
To help visually observe how the weapon is created, we have illustrated the step-by-step behaviors of a 11m interceptor boat from a very reputed US company and the step-by-step behaviors of a 16m interceptor boat from a very EU shipyard(all directly collected from and available in the public domain):
Evidence No.2: Even Only At Moderate Speed in Small Open Sea Waves, The Wheelhouse Gets Fully Washed by Strong Wake and The Crew Gets to His Extreme Capability only for Balancing
We have no interest to exaggerate the situation,we just show you the fact from real life that are easily accessed,so that you can judge yourself:
Evidence No.3: High Speed Tactics Maneuvering Is Just Like A Disaster Waiting to Happen Because The Sharp Heel Makes Everything Easily Out of Control
Due to poor self-stabilizing effect, doing tight tactics maneuvers even only at approx. 20 knots of initial speed can cause 30-40 degrees of sharp heel angle which can make everything easily out of control and the boat can easily roll over even with very skilled coxswain in place. So, again, we have no interest to exaggerate the situation,we just show you the fact from real life that are easily accessed, so that you can judge yourself:
The Shocking Truth: Behind Every So-called World-class Safe and Capable Boat Is A 100% Crew Injuries Rate, Worldwidely, Only Waiting to Be Disclosed To the Public
Just as we have repeatedly emphasized, no machinery, equipment, electronics, sensors, hull structures and users can perform properly in such horribly violent motions. To help better learn the shocking truth long time not disclosed to the public, please take a look at below result from a survey on Impact Induced Injuries Onboard High Speed Boats conducted by CWO5(ret) SWCC Ron Carpenter, showing 91% injuries rate--Based on our fact-based research and systematic statistics, the actual rate is 100%, not 91%, the difference only lies in waiting to happen: The situation is just like the evidence of showing a boat riding violently but still intact during sea trial is not evidence of what a world-class safe and capable boat shall be like but evidence about the truth that the world of high performance boat operation is a world full of endless suffering, failure, damage, injuries and tragedies!
This shocking truth is only an indication of the systematic failures found with even the best of today's high performance boats handled by the best skilled crews.
It on the other hand also helps explain why every designer/shipyard keeps claiming that their boats could do better than others but but every designer/shipyard is quickly slapped on the face by the facts from the ride of their so-called better boat, just as exampled from below ridiculous story with the US Navy Seal Mark series of special operations craft programme available from wikipedia which involved many designers and shipyards who claimed they could make a boat ride better than the former but the result was no change and the boats were still found with endless failures and crew injuries--Please just imagine how helpless the crews are feeling: They do want a truly real-life safe and capable boat but they have no choice except to continuously live with the endless suffering, because, all boats are sharing same science from the DNA which makes the problems inherent!
So, Why Most Fundamental Researches Declared by Most Companies Are Nothing But Only Marketing Gimmick
Most designers and shipyards call their work "fundamental research"--but it is only about "window dressing" and they never get to the fundamentals of real-life problems.
Here is their process towards a so-called revolutionary boat:
Start with the same problematic basic hull architecture platform;
Compromise this for that to make data pleasing;
Add a new radar, a bigger engine, a different propulsion to tweak for a specific project;
Slap on a "professional" paint job or "high-tech" styling;
And then declare it "a revolutionary design through endless advertorials".
They never invest in studying why machinery breaks down, why hulls fail and why crews are injured--they would prefer to add a system to improve in some extent (example: to add a dynamic stabilizer, a transom-mounted interceptor system, to fit a very expoensive shock-mitigating seat, etc) or some other ways to make the boat larger and larger in size with more and more complicated systems and higher and higher cost from the beginning to the ending besides worsened reliability due to the fundamental change in systems complication.
As one undisclosed premium EU designer told us off the record: "Fixing the true real-life problem would make our entire catalogue obsolete because it will first give chance for the public to know our marketed world-class safety and capability are only gimmick--And worse still, globally there are very few that can find the way to question the authoritative practise, not to say to find a way to bring the change, since this is the only approach to make users believe a new world can be made--If no undoubted evidence to show being able to do better, the questioning of the authority would mean endless troubles from lawsuits posed". Besides, with today's boats designed with flashier styling, more advanced, pleasing-looking machinery and electronics, this game can be made to play far easier.
Lucky enough, we have made it changed, fundamentally, from the very scientific roots.
Our Fundamental Research: One Person, 10+ years, 10,000+ Real-life Cases and 1 Uncompromising Goal for Changing the 100-year High Performance Boat Curse
Regardless of what field of industry it is, breakthrough in basic theory and foundational architecture is always a personal job through the very personal characteristics in obsession for changing. It is no exception to KINGTOUGH in the path towards our systematic breakthroughs--Our fundamental research is cored by our founder's obsession to uncover the root of the industry's curse and the ambition to continuously transform the industry.
Thus, we did not just "do research for research"--we rebuilt the rulebook for high performance boat design and reconstructed the foundational capabilities for high performance boats.
For over a decade, we focused on one question-based guideline: What if we started from scratching--ignoring every "authoritative theory" and only following science that prioritizes tough-mission safety, success, simplicity and affordability? What if we designed a hull that can live harmoniously with the sea, not fighting it?
Our process was unflinching, data-driven and exclusively built on systematic research about how each and every tough problem behaves in real life and how it is made to behave that way by science: We set aside authoritative theories and studied every trackable failure, breakdown, damage, injuries and tragedy recorded over the whole high performance boat history till today: Analyzing 10,000+ cases of hull cracks, machinery breakdowns, crew injuries, mission aborts and boat sinkings to uncover the exact physics behind each disaster; We reverse-engineered the flaws: Using Newton's Laws of Motion instead of advanced engineering software, we modeled how deep-V hulls amplify slamming, how catamarans lose speed in swells, how trimarans twist under stress and how hydrofoils are born fragile from the very beginning to the ending. We didn't just "see" the problem--we dug the roots and reconstructed new science and architecture to fundamentally eliminate it.
You can see a small sample of these flaws below--we systematically analyzed every possible fundamental flaw of thousands of so-called "best-designed boats" before being able to identify what the basic hull architecture of tomorrow and what its science shall be like. That is just a tiny part of the work that led to our breakthrough.
Our Breakthrough: The K-TOUGH Hull Architecture Platform That Delivers The Science and Capabilities of A Different World
Born for removing the 100-year curse of the high performance boat industry, our K-TOUGH Hull Architecture Platform has systematically reconstructed the logic of the high performance boat industry: Replacing the "fight the sea" logic with "live harmoniously with the sea", we make the boats empowered from the very DNA to be able to self stabilize its riding behaviors in waves, self dampen landings on high swells, self brake for a stable, well controlled and short-distant emergency crash stop, self enhance and evenly distribute lifting forces, self protect all dangerous hull structural areas and self redirect waves, thus eliminating violent motions from the very scientific roots and unlocking a new world of fundamentally different safety, capabilities, simplicity, reliability and delivering high-tech boats in a simple, compact and cost-accessible way: A refund-backed, 10x cost-prformance revolution and sustainability than any competing boat from any designer/builder.
Our K-TOUGH Hull Architecture Platform is unique, distinctive in its run of lines which makes every K-TOUGH Hull based boat born with the same unique and disrupting characteristics in both hull shape and real-life capabilities, truly unmistaken to be identified from the rest boats throughout today's global market, just as illustrated in the following:
The K-TOUGH Hull Architecture Platform: Harmony with The Sea, Dream-like Tough Mission Capabilities, A Lifetime ZERO Failure, Proven from The Toughest Mission Fields
Empowered by the science behind our K-TOUGH Hull Architecture Platform, every K-TOUGH Hull based boat is made to handle the sea just like a dream: Smoothly, gently, stably comfortably and with even nearly 100% top end speed sustained in sea state five like a monster on the sea, born truly for tough mission success and truly real-life proven.
Just as having been repeatedly mentioned, real-life riding motion is the simplest while also the only scientifically workable evidence to tell whether a boat is as superior as marketed or only stays good in marketing gimmick and advertorials. Here in the following, we will solidly based on facts from real life to share with you what a fundamentally different world our K-TOUGH Hull has created(Exampled boat is only a small enough, commonly equipped boat of 10.6m in length--Only small enough in size, simple enough in systems and disrupting enough in capabilities developed only on our first generation K-TOUGH Hull can help prove whether the result is disrupting and the change is fundamental!!):
Evidence NO.1:
Riding in moderate open sea waves extremely stable and comfortable just like driving a car on expressway which even makes coast guard superintendent from an island nation able to stand still on the fore deck with no need of holding the deck rail while traveling at 40 knots (We believe you must still have the impression from the opposite facts about the so-called best designed, world-class safe and capable boats from the premium US/EU/UK/Australian designers and shipyards which have been pitching, rolling, jumping and even flying horribly--A fundamentally different world we have created!!):
Evidence NO.2:
Extreme full speed tactics maneuvering is fully with no observed heel angle (we actually make 3-5 degrees of heel angle for mitigating hard feel while turning), making stability, comfort, agility and safety always in control and to be even more than ten times better than all of our competing boats which are turning horribly with very large heel angle even upto 45 degrees, making tactics maneuvering full of side skidding, transom throwing and easy loss of control besides high stress to both the boat and the users--This means that, even already with top skilled coxswain handling the boat, tragedy is only about when to happen.
Evidence NO. 3:
Riding in rough seas and storms, fully with visibility always in place,fully no high bow wake making observed, fully with confidence throughout, while comparably you will be shocked that even a 30m boat from the most premium US/EU/UK/Australian designer and shipyard cannot find to handle the sea to such capability--This is not astonishing. It is disrupting: It fundamentally ends the days of hull's working logic in fighting the sea when lots of clients enlarge a hull at the cost of many times higher for purchase and use and at the cost of many times of more structural/systems complication only for getting a larger hull with heavier weight to secure safety. Thus, we have created the best tough mission capable high-tech boat technologies and solutions into simplicity and make disrupting capabilities best cost accessible with least footprint on the environment--A truly fundamentally different world!
Besides, due to the more than ten times of far better working environment created by our unique K-TOUGH Hull, the hull structure, the machinery, the equipment, the electronics, the sensors and the users can sustain extensive performance to their best which is just the secret about why our K-TOUGH Hull based boats can enjoy a lifetime's ZERO failure even in 2-6m waves (empowered by our first generation K-TOUGH Hull only which has now evolved to its third generation with even far more disrupting capabilities and fuel efficiency) and why end users have quickly put aside their existing so-called world-class safety and capable boats from the US, EU, UK and Australia, only use and keep over-using throughout any ups and downs--So now we believe you must have come to understand why we say the violent riding motions are the scientific roots of all evils and the path towards a different world must start with removing the violent riding motions!
We Create the Most Sustainable Solution: Empowered by KINGTOUGH Science, Compact in Size, Less Critical in Materials, Simple in Structures and Systems, Low in Power Demand But Disrupting in Capabilities, in All Metrics
These years, there are too many talks on sustainability with too many strategies applied by governments, organizations and authorities, but what we see are more about making old stories placed by new ones with no fundamental change to the fundamental working logic of the industry--They change fossil fuel to electric but with heavy batteries and less propulsive thrust efficiency, they change the typical hard-chined deep-V hulls to hydrofoils but built on a fragile grounding with unacceptably high cost for endless make-ups throughout which makes the final solution even more fragile, and too many other strategies of same characteristics.
In our philosophy, the real scientifically workable approach towards sustainability shall be in a way where disrupting capabilities in all metrics are built on less demand in critical materials, equipment, machinery, systems, engine power and craftsmanship through changing the fundamental working logic of the industry, rather than simply going in a way of compromising this for that or taking complexity to replace simplicity at far higher cost only for making some narrow data pleasing, otherwise even more terrible, unpredicted situation threatening environmental sustainability will be unavoidable.
Empowered by our exclusively innovated K-TOUGH Hull Architecture Platform, we offer to the world the most environmentally sustainable, tough mission capable and cost accessible boat solutions that can perfectly turn the industry, the society and the globe.
A Call to Action: Let's build a better industry
For more than 100 years now, the industry has hidden behind "authority" and "tradition", making all high performance boats of all hull sizes and specifications ruled by the 100-year curse and filled with endless failures, damages, injuries, deaths and high cost but low capabilities. We have proven this "impossible" is possible --but we want more challengers to join us in moving the industry even more forward, so we welcome any designer or shipyard brave enough to test their "best" boat against our K-TOUGH Hull in real open sea.
In a world where end users have been made to be tired with too many times of disappointments by the too many so-called "world-class safe and capable boats" and "world-class success stories" from too many so-called premium US/EU/UK/Australian brands that are nothing new but only another example of continuing the more than 100 years of high performance boat curse, we are here to help change, by science and by facts.
Let's talk about how our fundamental research and breakthroughs can transform your fleet, your mission and your imagination in what a high performance boat can do to offer.