Now we can either rake the bow back, put a lot of carbon and reinforcing in the hull to take the increased loading or we can move the mounting point as far foward as possible by leaving the bow almost vertical, I choose the latter as unless you are doing about 30 knots the true wave piercing bows simply do not work. I do understand why we narrow down the top part of the hull but it has nothing to do with wave piercing.

Would I do the same if I was building another boat, nah raked back bows just look so much more ubber cool