Multihulls- ?the way forwards.

Re: Multihulls - .White cat man

>I am currently drawing a 38ft version of Eclipse, called Transit.<

Presumably it will only be available in white, will never be cleaned, and will go like the clappers when loaded down with plumbing tools.

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You can get a fast, British-built cat from Dazcat (www.dazcat.co.uk).

Ours is a 9.2m, and we find her fine for a summer's cruising. There's lots of space, but you do need to watch the weight. She'll outperform any cruising mono below about 38ft on any point of sailing.

YM did a review of their 10m model, last year I think.

My web site describes the boat and has some pics.

Tony

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<<<She'll outperform any cruising mono below about 38ft on any point of sailing.
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I suspect you don't mean that - else someone might take you up on it in a 37 foot monohull in 60 knots and high seas /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

John

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<<<boring down there in Kiwiland with no catamarans and all them sheep...... :-) >>>

Hi Mike

The thing that has always had me wondering is what all you guys do with frozen ones that we have sent you for more than a century and half - also, why do you like them chilled now, not frozen? /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

Might be worth while noting that there are more than a few cats of bad designs too - is not something that mono's have all by their lonesome.

On the theme of not always very good designs, I met Arthur Piver of very early trimaran fame when I was a little brat, he was sailing one of his own thirty footers (Lodestar, was it?) - was only a couple of years after that that he was lost at sea in his own boat (as has at least one other mutihull designer /forums/images/icons/frown.gif).

Was quite sad with our own boat - was a custom build and when it was complete the designer and his wife were driving to see it in finished state (plus another still being built in the same port) and were both killed in a car accident.

Regards

John

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Thought that would get you going John. One thing I learned a long time ago, if you want to wind up a Kiwi mention sheep!
What do we do with the frozen ones? Eat them on a Sunday with roast totties, mint sauce and parsnips usually. I can never understand why there are still people in the UK who will insist on eating Welsh lamb when NZ lamb is so good (my favourite actually). Must be since Chernobyl they are hooked on the Strontium 90...... Dont understand the fad for chilled either.... At least we eat them over here not make love to them...... At least in England we don't.... The Welsh have always been a bit strange.... :-)
Well thats probably started another round of insults just in time for Friday so I'll move on....

Yes there have been some truly awful multihulls built all over the world and the worst of those, especially when built in the sole quest for higher speeds have been truly dangerous. In fact I am highly critical of the extreme beam very lightweight designs we have been seeing lately and crewed on one (nameless builder but French) over to Cherbourg two years ago in a F6 and it frightened the bejeez out of me! I was sitting on a "bridge" about 6 ft above the WL and it felt as if it would pitchpole at every gust of wind. Could not shorten sail or the bugger would broach and the engines fitted would not have propelled a lolly stick on a duckpond.
But then I am easily frightened. Probably why I have lived this long. There are no old bold sailors.......

Putting two hulls together does not make a perfect boat. In fact two bad hulls joined together makes a doubly awful boat.....

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Precisely John.
It's this sort of generalisation that polarises the argument into two camps. Catamarans are still boats and there is no perfect boat. There was a thread some time ago where someone asked what the "perfect" boat would be for crossing the Atlantic and someone answered the QM2! Tend to agree with him.....
While I now own a cat (albeit a very seaworthy if not fast one) I have had all sorts of other boats in the past and if I had to weather a storm in mid Atlantic again I would still chose the steel hulled heavy displacement long keeled ketch that I did it in last time! But then as I said before I am an old sailor not a bold sailor.....

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I like the following picture as a good example of the differences:

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