Hello Frank and everybody,
I'm a small-boat designer from Newton, Massachusetts.
I'd like to introduce to you a new small-boat concept for which I recently got US patent #6871608 "Twin hull personal watercraft" (AKA W boat).
It allows for boat designers and builders to create boats that have some advantages over traditional small-boat forms.
Such new boats can vary in width from 2' to over 3', and from less than 10' in length to over 20', with hulls as narrow as 6" or wider than 1'.
The general form can be "open" like a canoe or dinghy, or "close" like a kayak.
Applications for such boats can be from paddling and rowing to sailing etc.
All materials and building methods used in other small boats are suitable for making these new boats.
I'm already manufacturing a small, plastic W boat called the W1 that's based on this concept.
I'm looking for designers and boat builders (including amateurs) interested in developing their own versions of W boats.
Personally, I'm interesrted in seeing W boats that are longer and generally bigger than my 10' W1.
The attached images show some things you can do with the W1. Longer models will be faster and more stable, and have a bigger load capacity.
Longer designs with wider hulls could fit a new range of applications.
You are all welcome to make comments, ask questions and request additional information
Yoav