Performance is something that PDQ always strives for. Even though it's hard to determine precisely why customers will buy a boat, PDQ feels their speed advantage is significant. Slater recognizes that most cruising cats have let weight get out of control, and, even more so than in a monohull design, a heavy cat is a slow cat. The structural cross beam or alus, as it is called in multihull lingo, is carbon fibre. For those not used to cat designs, profile drawings in a magazine are sometimes misleading.
All cats suffer aesthetically when viewed in a side-view sailplan drawing.
But because they have such great beam they can get away with a higher cabin profile and still look fine in the flesh. So make sure that you take a look at this one at the dock. The keels, which appear very stubby by monohull standards, are just fine for this boat. Cats don't need such deep keels for two reasons. First, because multihulls sail at higher speeds than monohulls, and water travels faster over the keel, creating more lift.