And yet, my catamaran has gone further in the last 4 years than your appliance box has
gone in the last dozen or so. You keep talking about "blue water sailing" but the most
you've done is to motor 50 miles over to the Bahamas.

I would concede that The Navigator may have seen some beat-up multis down where he is - it
is not a very forgiving part of the world. However, the conditions in the '40s are rather
different from the rest of the world. Your various comments imply that all cats capsize
everywhere, which is certainly not the case. An example (from memory, I admit): In the
infamous 1994 "Queen's Birthday Storm" one monohull was lost without a trace, several of
those abandoned were lost (a few recovered), one, a Westsail was scuttled after being
dismasted in a roll. There was one catamaran that was abandoned (the crew had virtually
no sailing experience) and later recovered with little damage.

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Give it up if you can't do any better than that.

Navigator clearly has the upper hand in this discussion and
is speaking from factual, first-hand information and he
bears out my point that multis rarely cruise and those that
do are in danger of capsize and structural failure is inevitable.

Multis aren't real seagoing boats. They are a gimmick and
a stupid one at that. Just because you own a cat you are
trying to defend them but your defense is as inept as your
choice of vessels.


"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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Nonsense.



"The_navigator_©" wrote in message
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Most cruisng cats thgat make it here here seem to be having their bridge
structures heavily repaired. Fact. just come to the yards here and check
it out!

Cheers MC

Jeff Morris wrote:

I don't believe this has ever happened for a production cruising catamaran. Just
what
boats are you actually talking about?


"The_navigator_©" wrote in message
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It is also rare for a cruising mono to break up and sink. In fact, they
often are found with no-one aboard. I've never heard of that being the
case for a multi. Once a cat gets flipped the loads on the bridge
structure get really enormous due to water in the hulls and 'suction' on
them. This will lead to structural failure PDQ in a storm and that is
why they'll sink. Give a good monohull anytime for survivability.

Cheers MC



Oz1 wrote:



On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:32:55 +1200, The_navigator_©
wrote:





Explain why so many cats break up and sink after capsize?

Cheers MC




Nah, you've got it all wrong.
They break up, capsize, break up some more and then scatter or sink.

Thing is the ones you hear of are usually racing bred and going twice
as fast as an equivalent mono.

It's rare for a cruising multi to break up and sink.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.
I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.