Equipped with three vertical wings, or hydrofoils, the craft is 'able to fly out of the water when it's going fast enough,' Andrea Meschini, head of R&D testing for the Candela P-12 ferry, told Agence France-Presse.'It's amazing; it feels like the future,' Meschini said as he demonstrated the prototype off the coast of the Stockholm archipelago, adding that 'it feels like a magic carpet.
The company, Candela, is due to start taking passengers between the island of Ekero and central Stockholm in October — a busy route that should take 35 minutes with the new ferry, half the time it takes by land.Under the agreement with SL — the Swedish capital's public transport operator — Candela will only supply a single boat for the time being, with a capacity for 30 passengers.Despite waves and the wakes produced by other boats, passengers feel virtually nothing on board the shuttle.