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[john_morris_uk]

I knew there was a reason I don’t sail performance cats.

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[Stemar]

All part of the fun - when you're 20. Unfortunately, at 70, I don't bounce as well as I used to. I'll stick to my Catalac, no one's ever managed to tip one of them over.

 

[Concerto]

All part of the fun - when you're 20. Unfortunately, at 70, I don't bounce as well as I used to. I'll stick to my Catalac, no one's ever managed to tip one of them over.

I agree that I am not as good at bouncing as I was in my 20's. However, I feel sure with a lot of wind and a little effort I could tip your Catalac over. Do you want me to try?

 

[Wandering Star]

I agree that I am not as good at bouncing as I was in my 20's. However, I feel sure with a lot of wind and a little effort I could tip your Catalac over. Do you want me to try?

I’ll give you a helping hand if you want? Does anyone still remember the early days of the forum when Stingo was a proper sailor with a monohull and we’d all met up on a Cherbourg forum meeting? About 20 of us gave his fine craft a stability test prior to him setting off across the Atlantic? That was a weekend to remember. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there and Stingo bought a catamaran and stopped being a real sailor.

 

[Boathook]

All part of the fun - when you're 20. Unfortunately, at 70, I don't bounce as well as I used to. I'll stick to my Catalac, no one's ever managed to tip one of them over.

Should add non modified hull form.

 

[Deleted member 478]

I’ll give you a helping hand if you want? Does anyone still remember the early days of the forum when Stingo was a proper sailor with a monohull and we’d all met up on a Cherbourg forum meeting? About 20 of us gave his fine craft a stability test prior to him setting off across the Atlantic? That was a weekend to remember. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there and Stingo bought a catamaran and stopped being a real sailor.

Here you go, @Wandering Star

 

[Wansworth]

Should have reefed

 

[scottie]

All part of the fun - when you're 20. Unfortunately, at 70, I don't bounce as well as I used to. I'll stick to my Catalac, no one's ever managed to tip one of them over.

YET .

 

[Stemar]

AFAIK, no one's even managed to fly a hull on a Catalac. They don't have keels so, while you lose windward performance, if they do get overloaded, they tend to skitter off sideways. Yes, I know that, with a beam of a bit over 4m, it only takes a breaking wave of about 5m to roll one, but the sort of people who buy Catalacs probably aren't going to be out in that sort of weather. Having said that, though, several were delivered across the Atlantic.

 

[srm]

My first boat was a Bobcat (all we could afford) - the plywood precursor to the Catalac. The Lack family kept the same hull form with their GRP versions.

Somewhere in the North Sea, well reefed, I saw a big breaking wave coming at us, ducked and held on tight. There was a clinometer on the cockpit bulkhead just in front of me. It went over to 45 degrees and we surfed sideways as the wave passed under us.