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Oh Lord, I went sailing on a multihull and LIKED it!
Oh Lord, I went sailing on a multihull and LIKED it!
snowleopard
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I thought Talbot had the copyright on that one.
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Oops. I take it he has posted it on here before?
Vagabond
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Cool !
What did you go out in?
What did you go out in?
Mirelle
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I was fully converted, once.
Newick trimaran.
Then she was lost, with her very capable skipper, on an OSTAR.
Never set foot on another.
Newick trimaran.
Then she was lost, with her very capable skipper, on an OSTAR.
Never set foot on another.
Talbot
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Couple other good ones from that same site, although I like that one the best!
BlueSkyNick
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So when you getting yours, then?
bilbobaggins
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A few years ago, I visited RYA Sail Cruising Manager Robin Sjoberg in his lair at Eastleigh one Monday morning, and was sitting well back out of the way - enjoying a coffee - when Training Manager Bill Anderson breezed in.
He looked like he'd been pulled through a hedge backwards and, not noticing me screened by the office door, lauched into an enthusiastic account of his weekend sailing a small-ish racing trimaran around the Solent. He was glowing with enthusiasm "Best fun I've had this year with my clothes on....!", while Robin S. couldn't get him to notice there was someone else in the room.
He'd spent years deriding the seaworthiness of all multihulls, in print, and his face was a picture when eventually he turned round and spotted me - the Rep from the Multihull Cruising and Racing Association MOCRA!
The Good Robin S. shared a chuckle with me after Big Bad Bill left. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
He looked like he'd been pulled through a hedge backwards and, not noticing me screened by the office door, lauched into an enthusiastic account of his weekend sailing a small-ish racing trimaran around the Solent. He was glowing with enthusiasm "Best fun I've had this year with my clothes on....!", while Robin S. couldn't get him to notice there was someone else in the room.
He'd spent years deriding the seaworthiness of all multihulls, in print, and his face was a picture when eventually he turned round and spotted me - the Rep from the Multihull Cruising and Racing Association MOCRA!
The Good Robin S. shared a chuckle with me after Big Bad Bill left. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Capt_Marlinspike
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I did my yachmaster exam on a catamaran back in May. I was totally converted and my next boat will be a Cat. No heeling, no down wind rolling and best of all no rolling at anchor. Not to mention being much faster than a mono. We were sailing in Plymouth sound the day that Ellen did the Brittany Ferries cross channel record and in a force 5 we were doing nearly 10 knots with no effort, brilliant.
Talbot
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What type of boat and what company?
When do you plan to get your cat?
When do you plan to get your cat?
Ships_Cat
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Have similar story - when I was a youth Arthur Piver (for those younger forumites, Piver was one of the prominent tri designers back in 1960's leading to their popularity) visited our home port on one of his trimarans and we spent time looking after the boat while he was away. Not long after he was lost at sea in one of his own designs, as has been at least another multihull designer whose name escapes me (does anyone know of a monohull designer lost at sea on a sunk monohull? Should be lots, as there are many more of them).
Ok multihulls have come along way since then, and are wonderful boats in benign waters (but not so wonderful in marina benign waters /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) but they have a very sad record for oceanic cruising here in the temperate regions of the Pacific. Given that they comprise a very small percentage of the cruising vessels that visit NZ, they are prominent in the losses (I suspect that maybe as many as 20% of the blue water losses in Navarea IV, NZ's responsibility, are multihulls - and another was lost just a couple of weeks ago, the only vessel lost without trace so far this winter - I know of 3 monohulls lost this winter but their crews were taken off them before abandonment).
While the proportion of multihulls in Auckland is probably higher due to less rugged local cruising, in our own marina (Cook Strait region) sailing multihulls only comprise less than 2% of the fleet - that, I suspect, due to their reputation in heavy conditions.
Note that I am not decrying multihulls (I actually work with MoBo ones) but suggest that they are not the great answer to every prayer that some (well, Talbot, Stingo anyway /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) would claim.
John
Ok multihulls have come along way since then, and are wonderful boats in benign waters (but not so wonderful in marina benign waters /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) but they have a very sad record for oceanic cruising here in the temperate regions of the Pacific. Given that they comprise a very small percentage of the cruising vessels that visit NZ, they are prominent in the losses (I suspect that maybe as many as 20% of the blue water losses in Navarea IV, NZ's responsibility, are multihulls - and another was lost just a couple of weeks ago, the only vessel lost without trace so far this winter - I know of 3 monohulls lost this winter but their crews were taken off them before abandonment).
While the proportion of multihulls in Auckland is probably higher due to less rugged local cruising, in our own marina (Cook Strait region) sailing multihulls only comprise less than 2% of the fleet - that, I suspect, due to their reputation in heavy conditions.
Note that I am not decrying multihulls (I actually work with MoBo ones) but suggest that they are not the great answer to every prayer that some (well, Talbot, Stingo anyway /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) would claim.
John
