Windmill or Wind Turbine- powered boats: how many are out there, and are they viable?

[Ad Hoc]

What size boats are you looking at?

Catamarans for fishing boats have been widely used, and successfully too...
http://www.deepsea.co.uk/boats/mystique/boat
http://www.deepsea.co.uk/boats/seabreeze/boat

are a few examples

[megsani]

Dear Ad Hoc

We are looking at the following:

Length - 15m
Breadth - 5m
GRT - 15 (to satisfy our local licensing requirements)
Draft - 1.5m
Sea-keeping performance - sea state of up to 4 (we are caught in NE, SW monsoons)

Hope this would clarify.

Thank you.

[megsani]

Dear Ad Hoc,

I have visited the sites that you refer to. I understand that they are for sportsfishing and other uses but no reference to commercial fishing.

I am pretty sure catamarans (or trimarans) can be designed for commercial fishing purpose. What do you think?

Thank you.

[Ad Hoc]

They are used as commericial fishing boats as well as workbaots. I know for certain.
If you look in the 'gallery' section:
http://www.southboatssp.co.uk/
The dimensions you quoted, are all covered by southboats. Excellent boats these are too.

[megsani]

Thank you Ad Hoc.

That certainly gives me the comfort to look at catarmaran fishing boat.