I hope Sailor will be here soon but here’s my understanding of the speed of a nonplaning hull ship:
As power is applied there are 2 waves created (one leading and one trailing). As more power is applied these waves seperate untill such a point that the waves are at the distance that the hull is so the ship has to now climb the wave to go faster. This effect limits how fast a nonplaning ship can go. The longer the hull the faster it can go (given enough power)
I’m sure I pretty much butchered it but just incase I got the gist of it. What happens if more power is applied once at the hull velocity? Will the non planing hull plane anyway, will it be forced into the wave it created, is it like the speed of light where you can just keep dumping power into it and not go any faster?