Have you ever seen the 'Moby Duck' busses in Salem Harbor? It looked like a
tour boat going by, then it turned right and drove up the ramp we were at.
Kinda funny.

Scotty
http://www.mobyduck.com/

"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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Nonsense - its true that the volume of a cat allows you to think of adding
so much that it
is overloaded, but the "cruising necessities" are easily handled. My
boat, for instance,
is one that allegedly suffers from this problem, especially since I have
the twin diesel
option, but it really means that I shouldn't also get gensets and A/C.
Even fully loaded
for a one year trip we easily outsailed most monohulls.

Last weekend we sailed 30 miles up the coast to Salem Bay. The wind was
10 to 12 knots,
not the best for a slightly undersailed cat, but we still did 5.5 to 7
knots, passing the
monohulls like they were standing still. Of the boats that left Boston
with us, none were
in sight when we got to Marblehead. I would admit that when we got to
M'head there were
several racing boats that were prepping for the Halifax race that had no
trouble keeping
up. (BTW, all of the multihulls in the race finished near the front - but
these aren't
cruising boats.)



"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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of a Cat, but the advantages offered in space and comfort are huge,
especially
for liveaboards who don't want to camp-out on a sub 40 foot mono.


You cannot load a catamaran down with all the necessary cruising
amenities and have it perform as well as a monohull, let alone be
considered fast. If space and comfort your wont then stick with
that flat in the city. You cannot take a flat to sea and expect it
to sail.