capnsensible
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Not a problem in Lake Solento......
Catamarans for cruising. Numbers continuing to grow.
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Snowgoose-1
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Still required if re heating yesterday's curry.Not a problem in Lake Solento......
Best to be on the safe side.
Chiara’s slave
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You were only supposed to blow the b.. doors off.
prestomg27
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And have an abomination of a boat that no one else wants?
Chiara’s slave
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Everyone seems to want mine. I have a collection of phone numbers of people to ring if I want to sell. We get approached by people in their tenders continually.
capnsensible
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Saw a couple of these in Puerto Calero last year.
Chiara’s slave
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Is that a Neel? They do get around the space issue to an extent, and also tack better than many cruising cats. Probably quite a nice compromise for the transatlantic run. Not quite our thing, if we sold the DF for a different kind of boat, it would almost certainly be a Dazcat. Bet there aren’t many of those in your anchorage.
capnsensible
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Yeah the tri is a Neel. Not heard of them and hey presto! 2 next to each other in Calero.
Dazcat? Dunno. There are loadsa cats here at the moment, most I don't recognise. Did you look at Rubicon webcams? There may be some marks that you know.
Next week an old oppo arrives on a Sunreef 80 that he skippers. Will get some pics. If you watched any of the racing in Barcelona, he was day running with corporate punters. Lovely boat. Megabucks tho.......
Dazcat? Dunno. There are loadsa cats here at the moment, most I don't recognise. Did you look at Rubicon webcams? There may be some marks that you know.
Next week an old oppo arrives on a Sunreef 80 that he skippers. Will get some pics. If you watched any of the racing in Barcelona, he was day running with corporate punters. Lovely boat. Megabucks tho.......
Chiara’s slave
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Ah, the bucks. Reason no 1 why we don’t own a Dazcat. The other reasons are that we don’t need one, our cruising is coastal, too many shorebound commitments, and also we wouldn’t be able to moor it locally. They’re quite easy to spot, compared to your average cooking fat, by the sleek lines, reverse bows and daggerboards visible when moored. You pull them up because they clunk, and wake you up. Ours is the same, the clunking, though it is technically a centreboard, on a pivot. However, the other attributes of a cat do appeal to us. We are the party house, our table can seat 14. So a bigger saloon on our boat would be natural. The Daz has all that, plus being a proper sailboat. Fast, efficient to windward, and good in light airs. Just expensive. Perhaps we’ll get an ordinary cat when we are too old for Dragonfly sailing, we’d make a good committee boat too.
I know 2 families who make ocean voyages on Dazcats, they love their boats. Perhaps if we bought one,we’d make the time to do it, and stop off for a beer.
I know 2 families who make ocean voyages on Dazcats, they love their boats. Perhaps if we bought one,we’d make the time to do it, and stop off for a beer.
Mudisox
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Better and cheaper,
https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/yacht/2005-schionning-1160-9041521/
or similar, although mostly in the Southern hemisphere.
Sorry, my Comanche is sold.
https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/yacht/2005-schionning-1160-9041521/
or similar, although mostly in the Southern hemisphere.
Sorry, my Comanche is sold.
Chiara’s slave
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Dunno about better, but a damn fine boat. I think you’d have to see which one suited you before making such a judgement. But, being older, it is distinctly better priced. Not massively more than my DF in fact… hmmmmmm, Shall I show Mrs C?
Supertramp
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A couple showed me their Dragonfly in Scotland this summer. They had about half the interior space I have and sailed in one day what took me two. While completely different to the heavy lump I sail, I see the appeal.
I think there are a whole new set of sailing and seamanship skills to learn sailing a multihull offshore. A different set of limits. The sheer size of big cruising cats could be restrictive but then again they are designed for lots of crew.
capnsensible
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Not really lots of crew. Many couples on relatively large boats. One ex forum member here sailed his larger cat across the Atlantic solo.
zoidberg
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I suspect your browser is stuck on the 'Jesters' page....
zoidberg
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An old mate I used to race with had several of them.
He lost a new one - built to win the RBR Race - a day north of t'Azores... fine day, they'd all gone down for lunch together, which included several members of the RCC.... they left the big spinnaker up and the autopilot keeping watch....
Then they went 'oopsadaisy'....
The deckhatches had been left open; they were all in shorts and t-shirts. Oddly, they survived and were picked up by a 'banana boat'.
No, you didn't see that reported. The 'old mate' had been a barrister....
Chiara’s slave
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The boat is probably still sailing around the oceans upside down, unless it’s been recovered, I won’t say salvaged. I know Darren a bit, he’s never mentioned that one.
Stingo
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Run a mile if that Schionning was built by Charter Catamarans in Durban, South Africa.
zoidberg
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Chiara’s slave
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Never mind the height, the width would stop you 20ft before the mast did. It is another reason why we have the folding tri. The beam limit is about 5 metres to get through. We have to fold at least one ama. However, to enter Yarmouth harbour at all in the summer months we need to fold, the ideal beam in there in summer would be a 30sq m. Taking your Catalac in there would require a degree of fortitude few possess.