capnsensible
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I've been lucky enough to get a lot of experience sailing yachts with in mast furling. Cats and monohulls. Med, Atlantic, Pacific. School yachts. Deliveries. Yadda yadda.Bearing in mind this is the liveaboard section, slab reefing at the mast has it's attractions for medium /large self reliant boats.
I reckon I've learnt that most of the problems people talk about are imagined rather than real. Perhaps I've just been lucky. But we see dozens of cruising liveaboards pass through every year. Many are Catamarans. Many have easy reefed in mast mainsail. Lots have all sorts of stability altering gantries with all sorts hanging off them including ribs, solar panels, etc. These are people in their hundreds going for comfort, not speed. A few years ago I posted a thread with piccies showing some of them. It's on here somewhere.
Lots have 'windows' in their hulls!
Love these discussions but they do tend to end up walking on the wild side sometimes.....