"Catamarans have some stresses on them that don't effect other boats but can prove fatal on a catamaran"

I hadn't considered that. There are no boat surveyors here on Guam but I do have a boatbuilder friend and a sailing friend who would probably do the job for me.

Willie-O, advise from an armchair sailor to another armchair sailor is pretty much harmless. The dream back in Maine was to live on the boat and then sail home when I retire in 4 years. I figure by then I'd have enough experience to try it. However, the reality is that I am too large to live on a boat. I am 6'3" tall and weigh in at 340 pounds. Right now I am trying to reduce the poundage but that doesn't fix the tallage. I spent my first year in the Navy bumping my head on the overhead on a WWII destroyer.

It occurs to me we have drfited away from the original question on the Texas Dory Plans. Did the original poster ever get his answer?