Can a modern tumblehome hull handle demanding seas?

Do tumblehome hulls have serious inherent seakeeping problems?

Not necessarily; modern design and construction can produce smooth-running tumblehome ships capable of demanding service.

Modern design and construction can produce smooth-running tumblehome ships despite the hull form's poor reputation. USS Zumwalt's reported performance in the South Atlantic is offered as an example of satisfactory seakeeping. The claim is that this performance attracted Royal Navy interest after the Type 26 and Type 31 orders. A tumblehome successor to Type 45 remains a prediction about a future design, rather than an announced programme decision.