I can understand Mary needing a motor to get out of a narrow channel, but Igor, a small electric motor isnt going to do squat if the weather comes up and you've got a 3 year old on board. I've got a 6 year old and a wife that prefers the beach, and we dont go out as a family unless its perfect, flat water, under 10 knots, tide going the right way. If you get the 3 year old and wife in some weather, they wont want to sail with you no matter how big a motor you put on the cat.

Bill