"Howard" wrote in message
rvers.com...
I too would not like to take sides on this debate but I wonder, if multi's
are safer than monos because they won't sink, where is the crew of the lost
cat?

It seems there was a shred of line tied to a sail drive. So someone,
presumably, survived the flip. But then what? Dead is dead.

Now, they might have been dead faster in a mono, I don't know.

Multi or mono either one is a risk, I guess the question is, which one is
the greater risk.

I went to the Annapolis boat show this fall and saw a bunch of big cats
with sliding glass doors across their cabins and no bridge deck. So, it
made me think, how hard is it for that massive expanse of glass to give up
the ghost. And there is nothing to stop downflooding into the cabin. And
they had these escape hatches in the hulls.

On the other had there are many pilot house monos with huge expanses of
glass. A friend of mine was on a boat lost in the Atlantic this fall.
They had a hull mounted port that punched out and were consequently taking
on water. Not sure if that was a fatal flaw.

I have seen Montisiers (sp?)"Joshua" described as more submarine than
sailboat, with a glass turret for inside sailing.

Maybe the comparison is not mono or multi but "sea hardened" (to coin a
phrase?) or not.

Just some thoughts.


It's always possible to find an inappropriate boat crewed by inappropriate
people and put it in an untenable situation.

They clearly had a stable platform to survive after the flip, and it's at
best speculative to wonder why someone died afterward. It's also easy to
say, "If I had been there, I would have done X."

BTW, even with the expansive glass sliders, modern cats won't sink just
because the glass gives way. It would just be more of a dangerous mess. The
cat in question clearly didn't sink.


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com