hull design for houseboat

[boatbuilder12]

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.

[rwatson]

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...o_gallery.html

[Knut Sand]

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....

[boatbuilder12]

thankyou for your help.

[Morro]

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.