If you were shopping for a cruising boat to circumnavigate,
and decided that you wanted a catamarran for this purpose,
what characteristics would you want it to have?

Long range implies duration without outside sources
of supplies such as food and fuel.

A cellar door.

Joe

A cellar door.

Joe

Hey Bart... the "Bumfuzzle" kids (Pat and Ali) have so far...
made it from Florida to Phuket, Thailand, via the Panama Canal,
aboard their Wildcat 350.

However... I think their longest sea passages don't exceed ten
(10) days.

Bill

Refer: http://www.bumfuzzle.com/

Simplicity and durability.


Amen!

What about speed?

"Bob Crantz" wrote
Simplicity and durability.

Interesting story on the woman eaten by a
sal****er croc.

My uncle used to take vacations in the Amazon just to
kill Crocodiles. What a great idea. Fun with a big gun!
A Weatherby 460 Magnum.

wrote in message

Refer: http://www.bumfuzzle.com/

If the speed helped you outrun storms or danger or greatly reduced the
amount of provisions needed, then yes.

Practically speaking, I don't think it matters much unless you are on either
end of the bell curve.

Amen!



"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
What about speed?

"Bob Crantz" wrote
Simplicity and durability.

In article et,
Bob Crantz wrote:
If the speed helped you outrun storms or danger or greatly reduced the
amount of provisions needed, then yes.

Practically speaking, I don't think it matters much unless you are on either
end of the bell curve.

It's a double-edged sword. Speed could help you outrun something, but
that begs the question as to why you would be out there if you knew
something was coming. The other way to look at it is that if you rely
on the speed difference to use a smaller weather window, you would, in
my view, negate some percentage of the speed advantage.

Seems to me that if you didn't rely on the speed factor in your
go/no-go decision, then speed would be a factor. :-)

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In article et,
Bob Crantz wrote:
If the speed helped you outrun storms or danger or greatly reduced the
amount of provisions needed, then yes.

Practically speaking, I don't think it matters much unless you are on either
end of the bell curve.

Amen!



"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
What about speed?

"Bob Crantz" wrote
Simplicity and durability.

How about a definition of simplicity and durability for this situation?



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