I own a Seapiper 35 which prompted me to open a thread a while back to clarify misconceptions of the SP at that time. I think it is time for me to interject once again. The discussion seems to focus on the center cockpit. If I knew how it create pictures in this site, I would show you how I handled the problem. Mind you leaving the pilot house in 25-30 knot winds with resulting sea spray, to pee or whatever, is nuts. I must resort to my blog
http://mvkiwi.com and ask you to look at the section dealing with the Bimini/Dodger I had built over the center cockpit. This design turned out very dry and effectively creating a large comfortable living space. In the cool periods when there is sun, it acts as a green house heating the boat, and in the summer various panels can be opened to regulate the breeze and temperature. Seapiper will soon be offering this concept as an option.
Trailering is another issue, while I did not buy the boat to be trailered, it's a nice feature. I too would like to see it to be 10 ft beam but there is a lot of arguments against that, so very convincing that totally upsets the concept of the boat. I'll let Ritzo Montinga, the designer, handle that one. All I can tell you is that it is a sea kindly hull being the reason its precursor the Sea Bright skiff was the favored boat of the rum runners off the Jersey coast, per John Gerr. Additionally it only cost me $4500 to truck it from LA to Naples, Fl., which I thought was pretty good. Plus since it is sea container size it was economical to ship it from China to the USA.