"Water - Wizards" is a high performance trans ocean film platform deliverable Worldwide. This 50ft power catamaran has been specifically conceived, designed and built with extreme flexibility and efficiency to support and magnify all media:

- motion picture filming production,
- photo,
- video,
- film,
- news, etc.

Its features, efficiency, reliability, speed and range make it a valuable partner in sailing events, by becoming an asset for both media coverage (live or differed), for sponsors and suppliers visibility, as well as for the safety of the sailing teams when used as a support, safety and/or corporate boat.

Launched in February 2006 "Water-Wizards" is a light, ultra efficient 50ft power catamaran specifically designed for Trans Ocean filming of such marine events as America's Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, La Route du Rhum, Transpac, Rolex Sydney-Hobart, etc...

So far the filming and photographing of such sport feat have been somewhat limited to the coastal navigation, start and finish within a few hundred miles off the coast, onboard cameras focusing on onboard events, without much film, video, live reporting on high seas race developments as they happened between boats.

Lessons learned from trans ocean races, race boats and from the challenge of filming action at sea, contributed to its fine-tuning to film races from Start to Finish.
Along the designing and building process, high tech composites and specialized fine equipment were selected from both Sailing and Power Yacht building to bring power catamaran performance to a new paradigm.

After years of research in both sail and power, along with his experience of over 75,000 trans ocean miles racing and record setting in previous marine performance projects, and previous race filming experience (Kenwood Cups, Big Boat Series, Transpac, etc.), Stephen J. “Steve” Shidler hired such world renown designers, engineers and consultants as: High Modulus, NZ, Tim Kernan/Kernan Yacht Design, CA/US, Morrelli & Melvin, CA/US, Craig Loomes, NZ, Martin Francis/Francis Design, France/UK and Craig Riley from Composites West.

It is while on race boats at the St. Malo pontoons for the start of La Route du Rhum 2002 race, with the world renown high performance designing team Marc Van Peteghem & Vincent Lauriot Prevost / VPLP, that we decided to focus the design and to integrate features for “Water-Wizards” to be a high performance trans ocean film platform, able to follow such racing Open Trimaran 60’s and able to go between the action to film the Race from Start to Finish and/or be a support/COM boat for the participants sponsors, corporate and technical teams.

Once we had its primary design, purpose and uses defined and ready, we went to Morrelli & Melvin as we knew their ocean experience having raced with them and as they had worked on our previous 3 marine projects (sail & power). There, Tim Kernan was assigned to our Water Wizards project. Once he decided to open his own design firm: Waterplane, now renamed Kernan Yacht Design, we followed him as he had become the lead designer assigned to the evolutionary design of this ground breaking boat. Evolutionary was the process as we were integrating the input of our other consultants along the way, so as to further the boat and its refinement.
It is interesting to note that in parallel, he was also working on another performance sailing monohull yacht: Peligroso, also to be built by Dencho Marine.