NO-SLAM DUNK
Like perpetual motion or alchemy, the dream of a fast boat that never slams has remained as elusive as the lost city of Atlantis. Boat builders, naval architects and scientists have spent thousands of hours trying everything from fins and foils to wave piercers and air keels to crack this maritime conundrum with varying degrees of success. But of all the ideas we have come across at MBY, one of the most promising comes not from a highly qualified marine engineer with a brain the size of a basketball but a wealthy Icelandic amputee who made his fortune designing prosthetic limbs.
When Össur Kristinsson’s search for a fast boat that he could helm pain-free through the rough seas around Iceland proved fruitless, he decided to build his own. In the way that only a man of his focus and determination could, he threw himself into reading and researching everything he could about hull design, including the
