Transporting a Catamaran project

[thebes]

My wife and I are strongly considering building a cruising cat. One thing I have found very little information on is getting it to the water when its done.

I live (currently) around 1000 miles from any ocean or navigable river which flows to the ocean. Catamarans are, of course, inherintly very wide.

Does anyone have advice on the practicality of building a yacht with a 17-19 foot beam that would need to be transported that far? I know it must require wide load permits, but what is the maximuum width (in the USA, New Mexico and Texas specifically).

For that matter how would a catamaran with an even larger beam (21-23 feet is quite plausible) be transported from where it was constructed to a suitable launch site even if it were the same city.

I don't need to know companies that transport, etc, I am just checking on the feasibility of this for the moment. I would be able to move to a port town to build the catamaran, but my wife and I really love the area we are living in and would prefer to build it here if that were practical.

btw, the plans we are looking at all have bridge deck cabins.

Thanks in advance for any advince,

Thebes