When Ugo Conti piled his family into a sailboat to take a three-year trip around the world, the main problem wasn’t his lack of sailing experience—it was his tendency to get sick at sea. So, like a lactose-intolerant ice cream lover, he was eager to find a solution to his problems—and confident that he could be the one to make it happen. After a few years spent MacGyvering around in his garage, he developed wave adaptive modular vessels (WAM-V) technology—boats that are flexible enough to conform to the water’s surface, skimming along the surface instead of busting through waves.
