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JAXAshby
 
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Default Unconditionally stable sailboats

jeffies proves my point:

[nevermind jeffies motors around on a two-huller "because his wife is scared"


no, jeffies, you gave up on rational discussion when you stated that

catamarans
are "unconditionally stable".


I think this proves my point. Jax is so irrational that he didn't notice
that I
didn't comment at all on catamaran stability; it wasn't me that made the
comment
on "unconditionally stable" and I'm not sure what it means. I would guess,
though, that Chris was talking about cat designs like the Prout which due to
a
very conservative design have a virtually perfect safety record: no capsizes,
no
sinkings, 5000 built, more circumnavigations than any other brand of
sailboat.

Frankly, while jax babbles about theory (getting it wrong, of course), makes
up
"statistics," and posts links about 40 year old designs and beach cats, I'm
content that the actual number of modern cruising cats capsizing is less than
5
in the last 10 years or so, with well over 10,000 built.