But it's designed for much more than just unique looks, offering a high-performance ride with enough stability, speed and comfort to sit back, sip champagne and chat with your closest friends while island-hopping at 55 knots (102 km/h) 

The product of eight years of research and development, the 18-m (60-foot) SS18 debuted earlier this year to much interest and wonder. Its uniquely structured dual-hull arrangement is designed to create a blend of speed, stability and agility that more traditional forms cannot match, a combination that promises a new era of speeding across the water without worry of getting beaten up by the angry sea.

Though it appears to meet the dictionary definition of a catamaran quite neatly (two parallel hulls joined by a deck), Glider insists it is neither a traditional catamaran, nor a SWATH (small waterplane area twin hull).