Without wanting to drag things out, this completes the feasibility study into whether flat-cats might be built for crewed operations: broadly speaking, seems they might.
The half-decks are of identical build to the pontoons and largely serve to protect the propellers, which are overlapped (to reduce width by some 25%) by off-setting the motors longitudinally.
It is around 8' in length, and so a half-scale build. Asking whether it could be got to work in any shape or form, as a guide we've the fact that people on planks seem to plane happily on water when moved at speed. Whether anyone would want to buy a boat like the one here is debatable, and dependent on expensive prototyping prior.
What I might do then is to build something larger for the sheer entertainment value, and get it towed behind a regular motor-cruiser belonging to someone richer than I.
But if you wanted swarms of drones stored or built as flat-packs at reasonable cost, then the outline would probably be worth considering?
The props should run in this event in the same direction in order that overlapping portions of disk run in opposition.
