New style Harryproa cruiser

[lucdekeyser]

Denney has teamed up with a Norwegian designer for a new style Harryproa cruiser. One is being built in a Peruvian boatyard. It is billed as a 60 foot cruiser but space wise it is more like a 40 foot catamaran with 10 feet extensions to each end of one hull. This is for more comfort at sea. This makes more sense than in hindsight extending the sterns of a cat to keep the wife aboard. I also like the separation of his and hers: the long skinny hull for the sails, rudders, et. al. and the short fat hull for a double bedroom/bathroom loft with a view.
I am not interested in complication to get the last percentages out of performance. So unstayed masts with just a wishbone mainsail look simple enough. I am not sure I want to use the tender hanging off the beam as a sled to motor the boat, but as a fall back that is not bad. The rudders are bidirectional now. This simplifies the design and I guess that the performance for a cruiser is not too much affected.
I guess it all depends on where one cruises but the toss up has one more set of options beside the usual: the comfort at sea of a 60 footer is important. But a real 60 footer is expensive in purchase and dock rent. This one weighs, costs and handles like a 40 footer. And the protected tender and ramp setup may make mooring a less unattractive alternative. What am I overlooking?