I believe you will find that Evan has worked for some of the biggest
name yacht designers in the business so I expect he already has that
figured out. He is just using the group as a sounding board the same
way I often do.

freddy wrote:
Go back to the designer and ask the proper questions - there's lots of
aspects to this question besides rigging. What do you think you're
gonna get here - design genius - from people who put 14 tanks on their
boats? Multihulls have to be kept light.


On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 14:47:14 GMT, Jim Conlin
wrote:



Glenn Ashmore wrote:


SNIP
What I want to know is how do you intend to raise the mast off that deck
beam and what will it do to the RM? You are increasing the lever arm of
the center of force and putting it up higher into stronger wind. That
in combination with reducing the angle of the stays will increase the
load on the stays. But maybe the wide base of a cat will minimize that.


The added accommodation will substantially increase the weight of the boat,
increasing the righting moment. Is the existing standing rigging up to the
increased loads?





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