The LR6 designed by Richard Roache is just such a design that pushes the shape at the bow into a very full but hydrodynamic shape. The idea being that it will wave pierce but due to the shape will act as a foil when immersed.
http://lindahlcompositedesign.weebly.com/lr-6.html
That is rather high prismatic bows but far from round or blunt. I do not see anything hair rising, just the wish for very high prismatic hulls with cutting water bows, "Old" Lindahl knows its affair. He has been designing and building class A and 18m2 cats since before the birth of Buddha.
Round bows on a sailing catamaran must be marvelous hydro brakes. A bit violent maybe. I would like to see the beautiful thick spray refreshing the faces of the poor crew at each wave.
On boats having so big changes of attitude like multis in a formed sea, the first goal is to get a very hydrodynamic shape, a good repartition of volumes with progressive immersion and thus a sweet but efficient damping, and to not have the tramp of a submerged bow acting as brake because your diagonal stability will be highly compromised.
After 50 years of hard work by hundreds of NA on thousands of multis of every size, use and made in every imaginable style, there is now a consensus, like with the cars which have now stupidly 2 front wheels, and not only one like the Reliant.
Blunt bows work on slow boats, very heavy and in very calm waters, ie barges on a river. Spheric bows work underwater, torpedoes and submarines but not well on surface boats.
Sailing ships based on the theory big head, slim tail have been built and used during a long time. Then, at the end of 18th cent. the American boatbuilders made exactly the contrary; fine entries fat stems. And their boats were surer and faster...The European corsairs adopted the design immediately at the very beginning of the 19th cent, that was indecently superior, no English warship twuce the size could pursuit them. The schooner America made a demonstration to the English yachtsmen around 1854, and all the fast ships including the clippers adopted it. End of the round bows which became the mark of the ancient mistakes in naval architecture.
