To reply to Paul Christman & Greg Schoenberg. To design a boat with the characteristics you describe is relatively easy. The difficult part is getting someone to pay you to design it! Designing boats is how I make my living and unless I get paid I don't do it. The problem is that designing a small vessel takes much the same effort and time as designing a larger one. You have to do the same calculations and structural analysis for both, so the design cost [in the eyes of the client] is disproportionate. As a consequence of this the smaller craft really have to go into series production, or you have to know you can sell a number of plans, to justify the time and effort involved. Regards, Malcolm Tennant. ARINA MA Malcolm Tennant Multihull Design Ltd PO Box 60513 Titirangi, Auckland 1007 NEW ZEALAND ph +64 9 817 1988 fax +64 9 817 6080 e-mail malcolm@tennantdesign.co.nz www.tennantdesign.co.nz www.catdesigners.com