Bugatti Bolide Monocoque, 2023. Looking like Batman's next ride, Bugatti have revealed the high-grade carbon fibre structure than hides beneath the bodywork of their track-only Bolide hypercar. The Bolide’s monocoque mirrors the proportions of a catamaran, placing the driver and passenger perfectly balanced inside the car. This arrangement enables the W16 powertrain to be positioned 60mm further forward than in the Chiron, ensuring ideal packaging for track use. The carbon fibre monocoque has been developed to meet the same Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile LMH and LMDh requirements as Le Mans race cars. Powered by the 8.0 litre W16 engine, the Bolide generates 1,600PS while the car has a dry weight of just 1,450 kg. First customers will receive their cars in 2024
This large catamaran could make a suitable vessel for an adventuring party or an encounter as an exploration vessel or merchant. She measures 100 feet in length and 70 feet in width, is modestly armed with two ballistas, and her dual tumblehome hulls and shallow draft result in a stable, comfortable vessel. Two smaller boats are carried onboard and launched via cranes for shore excursions.
The upper deck hosts a deckhouse which contains the ship's galley, mess, and officers' wardroom, & captain's quarters. The lower deck in each hull contains cargo holds and sleeping quarters (including private, but spartan, accommodations for junior officers).
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OSI/Alpine Silver Fox, 1967. Also designed by Sergio Sartorelli and the last concept car shown by OSI, the "catamaran" Silver Fox was presented at the Turin Motor Show. Using a French Alpine-Renault A110 engine the intention was for the car to break speed records and it did reach 155 mph (250 kph) though that wasn't enough to claim any. Plan for the car to enter the Le Mans 24 hour race we abandoned as the Officine Stampaggi Industriali went out of business
Picture dump time! These are fan-sketches I made of Dystopian Wars, my latest miniatures wargaming obsession. Turns out, I like boats and I cannot lie. Dystopian Wars (DW) is a steampunk/dieselpunk/atompunk alternate history wargame taking place in the year 187X, where great powers have great technology and lack great responsibility. The pictures are not in chronological order; I started with the Korean crafts, did the Polynesian ships and then the Union Atomic ship, then the Greek page, then the Persian Airships. Koreans and Greeks are going to be in the game, so they're baseless speculation on my part. Polynesians were a fan-thing for the Enlightened faction, and I wanted to include a bit of Solarpunk in the designs. Verdict is still out on that. Persian Airships are ludicrous fantasy on my part, based out of the idea of using an archetypical oil lamp as the hull for an airship. In addition, DW has a strong modularity component to it. Each plastic kit can build one thing out of several options, leading to great flexibility in the kits. The Prussians are the best example; if you don't glue down the bridge and primary weapons, you can just have any ship you could build with that kit. I tried duplicating that effect in sketch form, but with the Persians I got fed up and assembled full images of each variation.
Commissioned by Art Explora, it's the world's largest sailing catamaran, with a length of 46.5 meters, a width of 17.30 meters, and a 50-meter mast.
The flybridge will host virtual exhibitions, while the central part will house the gallery for the inaugural digital exhibition 'Icons' on women in the Mediterranean.
On the roof of the deckhouse, have been installed 65 square meters of solar panels, allowing an instantaneous production of 12 kW and a total energy accumulation of more than 200 kW each day.
The design is by Axel de Beaufort and Guillaume Verdier.