Bryan wrote:
We raced our Schock 35 for many years and often there was a multihull fleet
sailing the same course. F-28 Corsair Trimarans and others of the same ilk.
We were very rarely beaten around the course by those multihulls..

So why does the Shock have a phrf of 72 while the f27 usually has
around 50?

I would
tend to agree that in general a large monohull will be as fast if not faster
than a cruising cat.

Are you seriously saying that a comparison of a Shock 35 to a F28 says
anything about cruising boats??



That said, the ultimate speed machines are multihulls but they are not boats
you want to cruise on. Weight is the enemy of any multihull and beer in
bottles is heavy!