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True fundamental research is not about polishing marketing gimmicks or tweaking outdated designs.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 form.
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 (the foundational DNA of more than 99% of high performance boats of today servicing military, paramilitary and professional agencies worldwide) as example for explanation:
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 is always prioritized over the others. When a wave hits the bow, the hull will horribly lift high above water to allow the wave to directly slam the midship hull bottom and then heavily slam onto the surface of the sea by gravity force (just like falling from a 3-story building and even far worse, subject to boat speed and wave height), triggering "slamming loads" that crack the hull frames, 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 that 100% unavoidable, since nothing can sustain proper work 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.
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 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 and high performance helps bring an even worse situation: Boats for tough missions are always used beyond the safety and capabilities profile thus higher risks are made to reality but all parties 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.
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, horribly violent riding motions of their boats at the most outstanding place of their marketing documents and website indicating "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 from the most reputed US/EU/UK/Australian designers and builders and all 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 inherently and identically exciting by their shared problematic DNA to keep jumping and even flying out: 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 empowered by the problematic hull 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 and full of crew injuries, 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, just like showing a boat riding violently but still intact during sea trial is not the evidence of what a world-class safe and capable boat shall be like but evidence of a world full of endless suffering, failure, damage, injuries and tragedies!
The Ridiculous Phenomenon: A Ridiculous Phenomenon Is Made to Again and Again Continue, Even in Today's World
The fact of the 100% crew injuries rate not disclosed to the public and the far higher real-life performance demand against permitted performance limited by low safety bars makes users as the party responsible for hull failure, machinery damage, systems breakdown, crew injuries/deaths and even tragedies even when investigation is made, since investigation is carried out practically following ruled standards, thus creating a huge room for the ridiculous game of making safety-threatening motions as evidences of world-class safe and capable boats but users have no choice except to accept to live with such a horribly violent boat platform to carry their mission.
This explains why every designer/shipyard keeps claiming that their boats could do better in sea handling safety and performance but every designer/shipyard is quickly slapped on the face by the facts from their claimed better boat (When there comes no change to the basic hull architecture, the so-called better performance or safety is only about sacrificing this for that, not to mention that all hard-chined deep-V hulls are riding abruptly, violently and horribly due to the flaws in the DNA that just cannot be changed), just as exampled from below ridiculous story with the US Navy Seal Mark series of special operations craft programme involving many different designers and shipyards because of their claimed so-called better designs over the former designs already constructed and tested disappointing but finally proved to be of no significant change to the disappointing result of the former designs which is available from wikipedia:
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 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;
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 or why crews are injured--they would prefer to add a system to improve in some extent (dynamic stabilizer, etc) or some other ways to make the boat larger and larger in size with more and more complicated systems 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". Besides, with today's boats designed with flashier styling, more advanced machinery and electronics, the ridiculous game is made far easier than ever to be successfully played again and again.
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 remove it.
Thus, we did not just "do research for research"--we rebuilt the rulebook for high performance boat design and reconstructed the 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 focused on tough real-life problems: We set aside authoritative theories and studied every trackable failure, breakdown, damage, injuries and tragedy in high performance boat history: 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 theories 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 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 The Industry has Long Time Thirsty For
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, quick, 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.
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.
We welcome any designer or shipyard brave enough to test their "best" boat against our K-TOUGH Hull in real open sea. Let's compete to make boats safer, more reliable and more capable in a responsible way--not to mislead users with advertorials and "success stories" but to bring the real change.
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 trust in what a high performance boat can be.