Hey RQ, glad to here the project is coming along. Back in 1991 Hans Giessler, who owned a company named Gcat that built sailing beach cats since the seventies here in Florida, approached me with the same idea. His sailing cats were a symmetrical deep v design with rocker, that provided the lift vs. centerboards. This hull design though slow to tack was one of the fastest hulls I had sailed, and I believe still holds a speed record for its size. He took his twenty one footer put a flat deck on it with some spray curtains around it and hung a 25 hp. Tohatusa on the back. He invited me for a ride on it to look at the marketing potential. I asked Cort Steck to come along as well. When we arrived, Hans met us with the boat on the trailer, he launched it single handed easily pulling it off the trailer. That particular day on Tampa bay was very rough blowing 20 with nice 3 ft. square waves, there wasn't another boat on the water. Cort and I looked at each other with some trepidation about the upcoming ride. With the three of us aboard we went out the mouth of the basin and braced ourselves, Hans floored it and the boat quickly took off with no bow rise, just straight ahead, a real wave piercer, it sliced and diced and pretty much ignored the conditions, water came on the deck and ran off back overboard, the two sealed hulls essentially offered an unswampable craft, Hans said he had it out in much worse conditions with no worries. As we were scootin along Cort and I looked at each other, and we each had the same epiphany at the same time, "Why cant we do this on a larger scale?" So that's where the whole thing started for him and me and our interest in the potential of powercats, thanks to Hans Giessler. To this day that was probably the best running boat I have ever been on. From a marketing standpoint unfortunately it didn't make a lot of sense, it would cost to build about the same amount they were selling 20 ft. Bayliner packages for at retail. Hans later developed a larger 36ft. sailing cat design which we built at Endeavour for about a year as a high performance cruiser. Unfortunately again the market for this boat was very small. I hear Hans has taken that hull and is building it as a powercat now.