Westlawn & Cruising World Announce a New Design Competition

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Originally Posted by Mark Bowdidge

Crossing the equator on numerous occassions, where the wind is light and variable, I wanted a boat which would sail comfortably and with speed through this region. It also had to have max freeboard under the bridgedek area for example, the distance between the crossbeams and the DWL is 5 ft. The control or helmstation had to have maximum all round vision and all controls leading to one point for max safety and control. Being that the nature of the boat is for fast passages, all aspects of this design have been designed with this in mind.

Hi Mark,

all you say makes a lot of sense.
As I am currently looking for a liveaboard cat I am very interested in any new concept.

1. Do you have 'metric' specs? all those lbs, sq ft are just too confusing....
2. How do you beach your cat, are the rudders retractable?
3. Do you have any layout scketches?
4. Do you have a web site?