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You are traveling at normal speed (below 60 km/h) with normal leveling.
Make your choise.
In RL engeeniers have a third choise: go bigger (battleships as a good example). But this one is not that practical in SW.
If the + side is up top, put a couple of fin rudders at the bottom of your ship, wire them up with electricity and put a constant number of 1 on them.
It will help you to slide the water in a more controlable way
Also if you're so concerned with weight that you're replacing most of your internal blocks with wedges, you probably shouldn't have any weight blocks. 1 weight block requires 19 cubes to wedges to offset its mass. I've made a working boat with less than 19 cubes in it. :)
Give me a few minutes to fix this.
Well, i had a little fun with it. The PID's settings are totally thrown in and i didn't test them in any wind (my guess is they won't work, and you need a switch or something to tweak the settings for high wind), but it works fine in low wind conditions (~5% ish) that i made a couple of longer test runs in to see how fuel consumption affects it. Hopefully i remember to remove the funny fire hose that spewed diesel everywhere to make it chug through faster.
Either way your engine is quite overdone for the job, you could probably hit the speed with 30% less fuel consumption.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2546343873
All parts i touched are in pink, except those weight blocks and rotors that i threw away. You can slap them in again if you want but i don't see any need for them. Runs at a steady 65m/s or 234 km/h. It's not exactly fast when compared to my tanker, but it's not slow either.
Ok after looking at the screenshots and reading his experience I was going to guess some cheat/rotor blocks were likely used for bouyancy. Looks like you beat me to it and got rid of those.
However if OP's description is correct, a 5000 kg (we'll call it dry weight) boat should not be having weight problems or sitting too low. I've built 14000 kg boats that have plenty of clearance above water. And I'm absolutely a hack at art and design language.
Also I've only ever managed to build boats that go 50-60 knots if that, that nearly always try to become airplanes at those speeds. Interesting. Of course, I've only ever approached building boats with some sort of "scale" realism lol. I haven't reached a comfort level yet of "Kerballing" my builds...just yet. 😄
I'll give you a winky hint on how to go really fast, but i use a steam controller to drive this thing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2323737606
You can do this with it. Also, if you're wondering why the joystick icon wasn't showing, i had a strange issue where its behavior was reversed, meaning when the joystick icon was visible, joystick mode was off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lERZLPlDAL8
It has youtube song playing on the background (cut off in this version of the video) and game sounds on because someone accused me of speeding up the footage by 2x or 3x :)