Message text written by Georgs Kolesnikovs >Where can we see what your power catamaran for ocean-voyaging will look like? Does the designer have it up on Web?< We are just getting started on the design, trying to decide how small we can make it and still retain reasonable function. Catamarans have a lot of interior space for their length, but dedicated engine rooms take up proportionally more of that space than in a monohull, as they are not often double-decked in smaller sizes. Engines under tall aft bunks are space-efficient with easy access, but create other problems. Etc. The original specs for the trimaran included routine communting with the weather between Hawaii and Puget Sound. This range is harder to acheive in a power cat of reasonable size than in a comparable tri, so I am not sure we will be able to retain it. The near-term use of the boat is island-hopping around the edges of the South China Sea -- Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Maylasia,Thailand, etc. We had also hoped to cruise the coast and rivers of China, but that appears infeasible. I have a short discription of the legal problems involved if anyone is interested. For those interested, Kurt Hughes has a very sleek powertri with retractable floats (amas) and a powercat on his website at <http://www.multihulldesigns.com>. At another extreme, the British Navy is experimenting with trimaran warships <http://www.trimaran.dera.gov.uk>. Aloha, Michael Rowe