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Catamarans have something extra....
wrote in message ups.com... On Aug 16, 9:24 pm, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: Yes, cruising catamarans have something extra. As a simple Google and YouTube search using capsize and catamaran will reveal, the something extra is the remarkable ease with which catamarans turn turtle. With this in mind, any potential catamaran buyer must ask himself if the paltry advantages of a catamaran - things such as small heel angles, slightly faster speeds downwind, more elbow room below (but not load carrying capacity), shallow draft and largish cockpit - outweigh the fact that sooner or later the whole shebang is going to end up upside-down and swamped. Don't even think about what happens if you get trapped under the thing and drown. Just think about upside-down. In other words, everything is ruined. Why put up with a boat that has a designed-in flaw of being more stable upside-down than rightside-up? Is the trade-off between a platform that doesn't heel quite as much and an upside-down platform worth it? Only you can answer that question. It depends upon how much you love your life and the lives of your loved ones. I wonder when the Coast Guard is going to get some balls and declare any and all cruising catamaran ocean voyages "manifestly unsafe voyages" and put a stop to them? Wilbur Hubbard Sir I think you are confusing racing cats and lightweight hobby cats with cruising cats, Cruising cats again and again have proven to be more stable than a monohull and I am a fan of the monohull. The appears to be more space in a cruising cat but this is an illusion as it is just more cramped spaces and more of them, but if you need to know the truth on cats go to http://www.tennantdesign.co.nz/ Malcolm is one of the world's leading marine architects on catamarans. then you can speak with authority, check out the technical details and the record of CRUISING CATS . David Law Thanks but the bottom line is the stability curve. That says it all as far as I'm concerned. Cruising cats have stability curves similar to racing cats at the top of the curve where it says, "oh oh, turn turtle because there's no going back." Since they are heavier, the bottom of the curve looks a little better but that's spurious information because it's at the top where the problem arises. Anybody who claims cruising cats have an impeccable record are not familiar with the facts. People have died when their cruising cats have turned turtle. People will continue to die. The various manufacturers have an aggressive plan to cover up any incidents of capsize. They'd rather people weren't aware of the fact that they are selling a dangerous product. A product of dubious worth when it comes to ocean voyaging where sometimes one just cannot avoid a survival storm. Wilbur Hubbard |
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