What about speed?

"Bob Crantz" wrote
Simplicity and durability.

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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"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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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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Simplicity = easy to operate for one person, easy to fix

Durability = does not break or malfunction

In article et,
Bob Crantz wrote:
How about a definition of simplicity and durability for this situation?

Simplicity = easy to operate for one person, easy to fix

That should include wear factor on the one person.

Durability = does not break or malfunction

This could be an upgrade issue rather than necessarily an original
design.




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Bart Senior wrote:
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?


A lower price than most seem to. However, with all the cats
coming out of the charter fleets up for sale, prices are
coming down fast.


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

Fuel is a bigger issue than food IMHO, and cats are more
sensitive to weight load. Especially fast ones.

I'd have to do some research on solar panel charging,
although I think a diesel genset is still a very attractive
option for a multi big enough to circumnavigate.

Bob Crantz wrote:
Simplicity = easy to operate for one person, easy to fix

Durability = does not break or malfunction


Good characteristics for any boat & it's gear. But one
point- anything is easy if you know how. Preparing for
serious cruising *should* include learning as much as
possible about how all the stuff on the boat works.

The most attractive characteristics of a big catamaran are
that they are fast & have shoal draft, so getting a boat
that maximizes these two benefits would make sense. That
means daggerboards, although some people seem to hate them.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

In article ,
DSK wrote:
Good characteristics for any boat & it's gear. But one
point- anything is easy if you know how. Preparing for
serious cruising *should* include learning as much as
possible about how all the stuff on the boat works.

I had a friend who decided to go cruising from the east coast to the
south pacific. She got connected with a boat owner who had the same
thing in mind. His boat was well-stocked with all sorts of electronic
gizmos. On the third day out of marina, he handed her the folder of
manuals, and told her to start reading. Seems he never bothered to do
that himself. She jumped ship at the next opportunity.

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She quit because she had no skill. A capable woman
would accept the challenge, study the material, and
become all the more valuable as crew for doing it.

One of the first things I do on longer trips is study the
electronics. I often no more about them than the
owners.

A good sailor, should be like a line backer, filling in
gaps in the line, so the crew as a whole is better
prepared for anything.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote

I had a friend who decided to go cruising from the east coast to the
south pacific. She got connected with a boat owner who had the same
thing in mind. His boat was well-stocked with all sorts of electronic
gizmos. On the third day out of marina, he handed her the folder of
manuals, and told her to start reading. Seems he never bothered to do
that himself. She jumped ship at the next opportunity.

I think shoal draft is the most fabulous characteristic
of Catamarrans. Yet few seem to take advantage of
this by using daggerboards.

You can't argue with speed. A Catamarran that could
sail around the world in 100 days +/- 20 is something
that blows the doors off most monohulls.

The size of these vessels means either more comfort
or a bigger crew or both. Each are factors that imply
more safety.

"DSK" wrote
The most attractive characteristics of a big catamaran are that they are
fast & have shoal draft, so getting a boat that maximizes these two
benefits would make sense. That means daggerboards, although some people
seem to hate them.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King