Keep the platform narrow your beams will need to be heavy to work anyway with the hinges etc. Making the boat overly wide will only increase weight. If you are having two short masts you'll have less heeling moment than the original boat had. So there is definately no reason to go wider.
Unless you consider the amount of time you are going to spend on this thing!
And that note really hits home!
I did a 20 day kayak trip up the texas coast in may ....
that kayak got to be quite uncomfortable at times!
I was always wet, it was a tight fit .......
and I thought of ways to live at the other end of the spectrum.
I thought up this boat along the way.
Relatively speaking,
the ufc won't be a race as so much as a luxury boat cruise!
