hull design for houseboat

hi, all i'm new to here so please excuse me if i make a mistake. I am designing a hull for a house boat and am wondering if this would work. Could you build a a house boat hull that was barge style but twin hulled like a catamaran. there would be two hulls but the bow ends would be angled. would they be fuel efficient, would they create less drag than a mono hull barge style houseboat? the size houseboat i want to buil is a 48foot by 16 foot houseboat. the hulls would be 4ft. by 4ft. by 48ft. any help would be very appreciated because i have never designed a boat before.

 

Yes - you could, and can. It will work fine. especially if you round the ends quite a bit, rather than a sharp corners.


see http://www.dmrtc.net/~desyacht/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.html

 

This fellow have done it, he used two large ehhh "pipes"....
ended up with a vessel of approx 90' and 300 m2 area, separate docking station for extra boat, almost forgot the elevator....

(he used to be a farmer, but as he said he got tired of working, and needed a hobby, this is at least his second design (I've seen the one prior to this.... that was big enough I thought), there may be one boat built before that again... tired of working...? ).

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/autofil/1.4972584

In Norwegian of course... all you who doesn't understand one of the main langues of this world, enjoy the pictures....

 

thankyou

thankyou for your help.

 

Knut, that is one awsome home build project you linked to.

The hulls are based on 110 cm tubes, 2 x 340 hp gives 17 knots, the owner built it in one year, full time.