A course-holding, high-speed, sea-going vessel having a hull which is intended
to hold payloads or passengers and at least one rotatable, preferably electric,
rudder propeller (POD) which is arranged gondola-like under the hull of the vessel
and has, to supply it with power, at least one motor/generator unit which is arranged
in the hull of the vessel, the hull of the vessel having at least in part a bottom
which rises somewhat toward the two sides of the hull, and in that the front part
of the hull is designed so as to stabilize the course and movement of the vessel
and ending under water, in particular in a relatively slender bow with a bulb,
and in that a flow-guiding element (skegg) is arranged upstream of each rudder
propeller in order both to optimize the handling characteristics and to achieve
an optimized flow against the rudder propeller, which has a displacement volume
for the water flowing against the respective rudder propeller.
