A Belfast-based company is partnering with a Puget Sound maker of luxury yachts, with promises that they may build a new fleet of passenger-only ferries.

But what happens when the seas get rough? Most of the time, we see slickly edited marketing videos of hydrofoil electric boats smoothly soaring above relatively calm water. It’s an awesome ...

For a little more than a decade, the local aerospace giant brought its jet airplane technology to the commercial passenger boat market, building dozens of hydrofoil ferries used around the world.

The vehicle is designed to move through the water at slow speeds like a conventional boat, then accelerate onto hydrofoils before taking flight.