The Maine Cat P 38 was mentioned in a post yesterday. I had only recently taken a look at it--and there are some things which I really like--bearing in mind it is still partly in the "concept" stage, with the hulls still in a finishing stage as I understand. http://www.mecat.com/indexpower.htm http://www.mecat.com/power/powerupdates.htm I like the "downeast" looks of the boat. (no flying bridge does not bother me--as I am currently running a smaller Cat with only a pilot house). This boat finally has a "walk around" --ok make crawl around--bunk. Plus a second stateroom. Nice size main saloon, with good galley, dinette and sitting area, plus a separate helm station. I am not so sure that two full heads are necessary in a 38 foot boat--but there is good privacy (assuming some acoustic treatment of the bulkhead between the staterooms). I am not convinced that the diesel electric drive is worth the cost--but it will be most interesting to see what actually transpires. I guess I just don't believe the 15 knots with a total of 70 hp (two 35 hp electric engines). The hulls do look slippery in smooth water, but I wonder what will happen in the real sea type of situation? After the comments on stablity, I wonder what the narrow, fine lined hulls, with the hard chine 8 " above water line will do to dampen both roll and pitch. Also I am not so sure that beam of 1/2 the Length is a magic number, at least in the smaller cats. The Tom Cat 255 (Planing hulls) does not have the adverse handling characteristics which some have described in the comperable sized displacement hull Glacier Bay 2600 series. (The beams are comperable) Bob Austin