You are going to have a problem with the port forward 4.5" mount there Zephyr.Any aircraft with a decent wing span is going to loose a wing when it uses the port side cat.Maybe move the cat track inboard a bit.
Actually, Zephyr, what I would do is to move those forward sponsons further aft, since your bow will produce quite a considerable bow wave which will crash into the bottom section of those sponsons and buckle them in, if not outright tear them apart and off the hull. The USN experienced exactly these problems in their Forrestals, especially the USS Saratoga (CVA-60) and USS Ranger (CVA-61).
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I think Bezzo meant the gun sponsons, as I was thinking exactly the same. Those gun sponsons are too far forward and will be subject to damage from heavy seas, and maybe from the bow wave in a flat calm.
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