"Goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:33:17 +1000, OzOne wrote:

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:14:06 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
scribbled thusly:


"Jeff" wrote in message
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* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 8/3/2007 7:31 PM:
Rescue required. When are they gonna do something about dangerous,
unseaworthy catamarans?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6930023.stm

Wilbur Hubbard

An old boat, with known structural problems has a complete
structural
failure in rough weather and yet doesn't sink and all three elderly
sailors are rescued without injury. How many monohulls could break
in
half, or even sustain a small puncture, without sinking?

I've been trying to find more info on this incident. It certainly
wasn't a normal cruising cat, since the two hulls are usually
molded
as one, and breaking in half isn't possible without major trauma.
It
was probably a racing cat converted to cruising, or a old homemade
boat.


Not!

http://www.2hulls.com/usedcatamaran-2007/Tantara.html

Read it and weep. I bet it doesn't make you feel very safe on your
PDQ
which is sort of a cheapo version of the Lagoon 38.

Wilbur Hubbard

Funny that a 39' cat advertised on Puerto Rico suddenlt stretches to
46' and breaks up off Anglesy......and taht the remains in no waty
resemble the 39 footer.

How does a Tiki 46 gab you?
http://www.pca-seapeople.org/PCAgall...g2_itemId=4253


The capsized catamaran looks like it has sugar scoop transoms. The tiki
has no such thing,The Lagoon 38 does have sugar scoops, though. The
question is does the Lagoon have a keels or daggerboards (or
centerboards)? The capsized boat has no sign of a keel of any sort so it
must have daggerboards. But you can see the spar at the bow sticking up
at an odd angle. It's still attached to one hull but not the other.

Wilbur Hubbard
--- Catamaran - two unseaworthy boats joined together to make another
one?