A system for improving the performance of a powered boat that includes
both methods and apparatuses that provide a powered boat ways to
stabilize, control, and optimize the powered boat's performance when the
powered boat is in powered motion. The system provides capabilities of
enhancing the powered boat's performance by responding to both
aerodynamic and hydrodynamic effects upon the powered boat when the
powered boat is in motion. Some embodiments of the system are capable of
altering its way of responding to aerodynamic effects while the powered
boat is in powered motion, other embodiments are capable of altering the
powered boat's response to hydrodynamic effects while the powered boat is
in powered motion, and still other embodiments are capable of altering
the powered boat's response to both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic effects
while the powered boat is in powered motion. Certain embodiments of the
system are capable of utilizing aerodynamic elements that operate on the
air stream flowing within a tunnel formed within a multihull of a powered
boat, while other embodiments are capable of mitigating the effects of
water impacts upon the roof of a tunnel formed within a multihull powered
boat. Still other embodiments are capable of responding to aerodynamic
effects by interacting with portions of the air stream that passes above
the boat while mitigating the potential for negative effects due to
cross-winds impacting the structure which rises above a deck of the
powered boat.