On Fri, 9 May 2008 09:24:21 +0100, "Dennis Pogson"
wrote:

I sail on both a 50-foot Beneteau cruiser/racer, and a 65-foot pilothouse
ketch, and you can keep your pilothouse boat. They are bloody awful to sail.

Slow to respond to the helm, won't point, and require an engine the size of
the QM2's to make any progress thru wind and waves.

They are simply downwind flat-water cruisers with no propensity to
seaworthiness.

How exactly does the pilothouse affect all of those characteristics ?