Trimarans

[Yealm]

Beautiful !

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Have the tramps been sitting in the sun for years? If they have check them carefully.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

It has arrived.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

 

[Rum_Pirate]

 

[LittleSister]

I see the hull has a knuckle.

It's obviously closely related to the Westerly Centaur.

 

[DJE]

Years ago someone with a trimaran posted a video on here saying "Here's my boat doing 18 knots"

Someone replied "No no dear boy, what you have there is three boats doing 6 knots each in close formation"

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Years ago someone with a trimaran posted a video on here saying "Here's my boat doing 18 knots"

Someone replied "No no dear boy, what you have there is three boats doing 6 knots each in close formation"

With regular sails 12 knots apparently is within normal ability for the F-27.

This is is 14 knots.

With racing sails 20+ knots is achievable. ?

I don't plan to get the racing sails.

 

[mjcoon]

Years ago someone with a trimaran posted a video on here saying "Here's my boat doing 18 knots"

Someone replied "No no dear boy, what you have there is three boats doing 6 knots each in close formation"

Is that related to prison sentences served consecutively or concurrently, or batteries in series or parallel?

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Is that related to prison sentences served consecutively or concurrently, or batteries in series or parallel?

So if a trimarans hulls are 24'+27'+ 24' does that mean it has a waterline length of 75'0" ?

 

[AngusMcDoon]

So if a trimarans hulls are 24'+27'+ 24' does that mean it has a waterline length of 75'0" ?

Certainly feels like it when sticking masking tape on for antifouling.

 

[Yealm]

You kind of do need laminates...
Much more fun !

 

[Rum_Pirate]

A friend, when he saw my trimaran, said :

"Oh, a monohull with training hulls"

 

[Neeves]

With regular sails 12 knots apparently is within normal ability for the F-27.

This is is 14 knots.

With racing sails 20+ knots is achievable. ?

I don't plan to get the racing sails.

Wimp!



Jonathan

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I’ve owned an F27. I have an old skool photo of the log reading 17kn somewhere, during a channel crossing. These days we have a Dragonfly 920. The tri jokes are old ones, but good ones. We should have bought shares in a masking tape manufacturer years ago. 12kn, if you don’t see that on almost every sail, your antifouling needs renewing. If theres a drawback to tris, it’s that they demand a lot of performance related attention. You’ll no longer put up with shoddy sails, or a slightly foul bottom. At least the latter is easy to fix. You need a pleasant day, a beer, a sponge and a gently shelving beach.

 

[Neeves]

I’ve owned an F27. I have an old skool photo of the log reading 17kn somewhere, during a channel crossing. These days we have a Dragonfly 920. The tri jokes are old ones, but good ones. We should have bought shares in a masking tape manufacturer years ago. 12kn, if you don’t see that on almost every sail, your antifouling needs renewing. If theres a drawback to tris, it’s that they demand a lot of performance related attention. You’ll no longer put up with shoddy sails, or a slightly foul bottom. At least the latter is easy to fix. You need a pleasant day, a beer, a sponge and a gently shelving beach.

Welcome to the Forum, good to have another owner with a yacht with more than one hull.

Jonathan

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Thanks. It's quite nice to see the positivity, multihull conversation still occasionally results in hostility. We've been multihullers since about 1988, on and off, mostly on. This one is new to us, still very much on the steep part of the learning curve.

 

[Yealm]

I’ve owned an F27. I have an old skool photo of the log reading 17kn somewhere, during a channel crossing. These days we have a Dragonfly 920. The tri jokes are old ones, but good ones. We should have bought shares in a masking tape manufacturer years ago. 12kn, if you don’t see that on almost every sail, your antifouling needs renewing. If theres a drawback to tris, it’s that they demand a lot of performance related attention. You’ll no longer put up with shoddy sails, or a slightly foul bottom. At least the latter is easy to fix. You need a pleasant day, a beer, a sponge and a gently shelving beach.

Yes tris just make you damned happy! So regret selling my F28. Only prob is parking..

 

[Neeves]

Yes tris just make you damned happy! I so regret selling my F28. Only prob is parking..

Tri's are for the young and are wasted on those of us of more mature years, with sensible ideas and the need for creature comforts. We are quite happy if we can propel our floating caravan and make an average 10 knots over 100nm (with only one person on deck)

Take care, stay safe

Jonathan

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Yes tris just make you damned happy! So regret selling my F28. Only prob is parking..

Each type presents their own drawbacks. Our Dragonfly can fit in a marina berth long term, Farriers cannot, because of their folding mechanism, the float sides being immersed. But the folding with Farriers is so slick, effort free, strong and clever. The Dragonfly needs winching. Us Dragonflys also have considerably higher float volume, which is reassuring when pressing on. I personally prefer that, having tried both. However, for anyone uninitiated in the ways of trimarans, they’re not going to notice. What they notice is the sheer speed, the quiet, apart from the apparent wind that is, and the calmness, even with consistent double digit speeds. A cup of tea is perfectly possible at 15kn. It gets a bit more tense as you approach 20!