Let them do what they want Berny, The practcality of it all would very soon become apparent when some one who builds a boat at some extreme width, or even if they went to only 8'6", apart from the total pain in the butt every time they had to tow it any where, when they found that it would be because of their width that they couldn't compete with a 14' cat that's beam was on the 7' side of 8', I think that the lessons would soon be learned