Hi Wouter

Well I guess the main objective was a 12ft cat, increasing its length to make it suitable for a larger weight range, you may as well build a Paper Tiger or an Arrow.

I spoke offline to another forum user, who to is interested in introducing a more modern 12ft cat for trainers, for their junior fleet, as we had said earlier, we would prefer and his own kids would prefer to have the option of a trapeze, and probably an optional jib to allow their friends to continue to sail with them after they get the hang of it. We didn't really discuss hull shapes or profiles, but the boat I'm working on, would be tortured ply design, not that I'm a designers little toe, but I'm having a crack at it, I don't find tortured ply difficult at all, when I try to explain it to someone who hasn't a clue what I mean, I think its sounds more technical than it really is.

Regards