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A catamaran would be a nice "marine stabilized platform"



Not necessarily.

Catamarans tend the roll pretty aggressively, even if they aren't going to roll over a wide angle.

A SWATH - small water-plane area twin hull - would be a better choice. Basically two completely submerged pontoons with small pylons passing though the water surface up to the superstructure.

Because they have very little boyancy change when the waves change the water surface level, they have very gentle roll characteristics.




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