Let me clarify about disAbilities - Spinal Cord Injuries to an extent that one can not sit-up independently or walk. From a broad view any boat is accessible from a narrow view of significant disabilities only a very limited number of multihulls are accessible and in the beach cat area only one is accessible. I can go on and on with this topic of disability level, diagnoses, etc. but I will save you all from that by not going there.

All your technical jargon is great. How about this to simply it, if I buy a new so called high tech cat I would buy an 18 ft. cat and lets leave it at that (kind of). So am I anti 16 ft HT cats no but I was thinking I sometimes sail with some heavy guys that puts our total weight up to around 350 lbs, which is way to much weight for the 16HT. Seems to me it would be harder to accommodate a heavy team on 16HT than a lightweight team on a 18HT. So I am wondering if anyone else runs across this and if you had to choose would you choose the 16 or 18 HT. Many of use simply cannot afford to get to HT cats. I know this is kind of an extreme example but heck I am told there is no stupid question, well I hope this is true.

Once again, no negative angle is intended with my comments.