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Seaworthiness of Mac26
"JAXAshby" wrote in message ... Modern cruising catamarans, over 35 feet and used for cruising, have a near perfect safety record, especially with regard to sinking. You'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of incidents in the last 10 years. To compare their record to monohulls is laughable. compare the Iroquois owner's list to see just how many Iroquiois catamarans sank of the total number made. The % is not unusual in the context of catamarans taken "out there". Iroquois are not "modern cruising cats over 35 feet." The were designed in the early 1960's and are only 30 feet long, with a 13 foot beam. Many of the early boats were finished from bare hull by amateurs. While it was a "breakthrough" boat in its day, they serve now as the example of how not to build a catamaran. Try again, jaxie. |
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"JAXAshby" wrote in message ... BULL****. Yet another idiot claim from our resident clown. check it out, yo-yo. catamarans "out there" sink at an unethical rate as compared to mono's. Check what out? Show us a site that proves that cruising cats aren't safer than monohulls. Another worthless claim from the jaxhole. |
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jeffies, owning a catamaran is a leap in religious faith, and like most
religious bigots, catamaran bigots have the mental capacity of a seven year old kid. catamarans present huge, and unstable, wind surfaces, have large, marginally structural surface unable to stand tons of water slamming against it, unable to sail up wind, enormous engineering problems in trying to keep the two hulls from twisting the interconnecting structure to broken pencils and are rather misserably slow when weighted down by cruising necessities. As a % of boats "out there", catamarans sink at a much higher rate than mono's. That is why so few catamarans -- as a % of total catamarans -- "go out there". Catamarans are training wheels, bought by people who feel the need for training wheels and both the boats and the people who buy them are best off staying close to shore and anchoring every nite in a well protected anchorage. now, jeffies, go pray in your Church of Eternal Life/Two Hulls that the God of Two Hulls might smite the Half-Boat Heathens who might dare to set sail in winds above 15 knots and waves above 4 feet. Modern cruising catamarans, over 35 feet and used for cruising, have a near perfect safety record, especially with regard to sinking. You'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of incidents in the last 10 years. To compare their record to monohulls is laughable. compare the Iroquois owner's list to see just how many Iroquiois catamarans sank of the total number made. The % is not unusual in the context of catamarans taken "out there". Iroquois are not "modern cruising cats over 35 feet." The were designed in the early 1960's and are only 30 feet long, with a 13 foot beam. Many of the early boats were finished from bare hull by amateurs. While it was a "breakthrough" boat in its day, they serve now as the example of how not to build a catamaran. Try again, jaxie. |
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Poor, poor jaxie. Your post reeks of jealousy.
You still haven't given even a single example of a cruising cat problem. "JAXAshby" wrote in message ... jeffies, owning a catamaran is a leap in religious faith, and like most religious bigots, catamaran bigots have the mental capacity of a seven year old kid. catamarans present huge, and unstable, wind surfaces, have large, marginally structural surface unable to stand tons of water slamming against it, unable to sail up wind, enormous engineering problems in trying to keep the two hulls from twisting the interconnecting structure to broken pencils and are rather misserably slow when weighted down by cruising necessities. As a % of boats "out there", catamarans sink at a much higher rate than mono's. That is why so few catamarans -- as a % of total catamarans -- "go out there". Catamarans are training wheels, bought by people who feel the need for training wheels and both the boats and the people who buy them are best off staying close to shore and anchoring every nite in a well protected anchorage. now, jeffies, go pray in your Church of Eternal Life/Two Hulls that the God of Two Hulls might smite the Half-Boat Heathens who might dare to set sail in winds above 15 knots and waves above 4 feet. Modern cruising catamarans, over 35 feet and used for cruising, have a near perfect safety record, especially with regard to sinking. You'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of incidents in the last 10 years. To compare their record to monohulls is laughable. compare the Iroquois owner's list to see just how many Iroquiois catamarans sank of the total number made. The % is not unusual in the context of catamarans taken "out there". Iroquois are not "modern cruising cats over 35 feet." The were designed in the early 1960's and are only 30 feet long, with a 13 foot beam. Many of the early boats were finished from bare hull by amateurs. While it was a "breakthrough" boat in its day, they serve now as the example of how not to build a catamaran. Try again, jaxie. |
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BULL****.
Yet another idiot claim from our resident clown. check it out, yo-yo. catamarans "out there" sink at an unethical rate as compared to mono's. Check what out? Show us a site that proves that cruising cats aren't safer than monohulls. Another worthless claim from the jaxhole. http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi/read/9154 http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi/read/9182 http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi/read/9275 |
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Poor, poor jaxie. Your post reeks of jealousy.
You still haven't given even a single example of a cruising cat problem. jeffies, were you too busy praying at the Church of Eternal Life/Two Hulls to notice the post with three quick references? Is is your faith so bigot based you couldn't read words that contradicted your faith? |
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:15 pm in rec.boats.cruising Jeff Morris wrote:
Poor, poor jaxie. Your post reeks of jealousy. You still haven't given even a single example of a cruising cat problem. Just plonk the troll into your killfile, he is terminally clueless. The existance of a few bad small cats is enough to condemn all multihulls in his tiny mind despite the existance of cats which are unconditionally stable. |
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"rhys" wrote in message
... I'm not sure why you have a problem with "flat sliding doors" since I've never heard of a failure of one. I just find large openings and flat surfaces on small vessels of any type inappropriate from a windage viewpoint and POTENTIALLY from a structural viewpoint. I don't like large companionways and tons of fixed ports in the coachhouse for the same reason. It's not particularly scientific, but there's a reason submarines and shuttlecraft don't have screen doors, either. G Or are you defining "seaworthiness" as something that "looks proper" as opposed to something that has been proven safe with a perfect safety record? Perfect? Stats, please. Plenty of catamarans have gone missing in the ocean... Really? I've heard of a couple in the last 20 years ... can you point to any? This is an odd issue, because people often claim cats flip, sink, or go missing, but then are never able to provide examples. There are, of course, a few, but very few compared to monohulls. we had one kill two sailors in Lake Erie three years ago near here in a line squall when it flipped and flooded. Yes, it was a racing boat carrying full sail with spinnaker in the middle of the night, only one man was on deck at the time. There is certainly no question that racing cats and tris flip. Of course, racing monos also flip and often sink. If a catamaran went down in the ocean, it would be hard to figure WHAT killed it, but a large glass door in the cockpit can reasonably be assumed will let in more following seas IF it fails. Why? Most catamarams keep a dry cockpit in following seas. And in major storms the preferred strategy is to lie to a sea anchor. And engineering tells us everything fails, eventually. Me, I would rather it was a couple of dropboards YMMV. Some cats are more conservatively designed in this respect; others go for the "sunroom effect". Are you saying a Hunter is a safe boat because it has dropboards? You could make the hypothetical case that sliding doors might not be safe in an "ultimate storm" but certainly the majority of boats built have similar issues. So are you simply saying that most cats are built as coastal cruisers, just like most monohulls are? Actually, I consider the door to be a major safety feature since you don't have to climb down a ladder to "go below." Different strokes, I guess. I have plenty of handholds so I essentially "drop" the four feet or so into the cabin. Racing cats, of course, look like '50s fighter jets, with "blister" windscreens and a minimum of deck clutter. Modern cruising cats don't have a problem with seas breaking in the cockpit because the sterns are quite bouyant and lift easily. In many cats the door is almost amidships, so its rather unlikely to be tested even in the worst conditions. And the cockpit drains are usually 3 inch scuppers that drain directly below. I know that traditionally, large comfortable cockpits are not considered the safest for long passages, but they really aren't that bad on a cat. Well, as I've said, while my experience with them is limited, I've seen a few that seemed a bit more alert, so to speak, to the possibly of tons of green water landing in an inconvenient spot. Yes, there are certainly a number of cats designed specifically with ocean passages in mind, just as there are a number of monohulls so designed. At the other end of the spectrum there are cats suited only for coastal waters, although they have made passages as "stunts," just like you hear of J30's making passages. One thing to remember about larger cruising cats is that they make a huge number of passages. Almost every cat the Caribbean (a major part of the market) gets there on its own bottom, usually from France or South Africa. Even my PDQ, clearly a coastal design, has 30 or 40 Bermuda passages (the major charter fleet uses that route), plus a least one Atlantic crossing. South Africa builds some apparently incredibly tough blue-water cats (they'd have to, given the conditions there), and while I'd personally have to learn to sail 'em, I'd let the brother buy one. You'd figure it out real quick. So I understand. Perhaps I should start with a tri...there are a few F28s locally that are supposed to do 20 kts. Now that might take a bit of learning. Last year I was waiting out some weather in Plymouth, MA when a new F31 came in. He said they had just been doing about 17 knots reaching down from Boston. I was a bit envious until I went below - but it did make me think about choices and alternatives. -- -jeff www.sv-loki.com "The sea was angry that day, my friend. Like an old man trying to send back soup at the deli." |
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Did you even look at the links? One talks about the Iroquois, a very early
design from the '60's, only 30 feet, which did have problems. They also did a considerable number of passages, including IIRC a circumnavigation. The second provides a number of links to mishaps involving a 19 foot cat, a "Route du Rumb" racer, Groupama, one of the most extreme racing boats ever made, a Prindle 18 capsize, a daysailing dive boat in Hawaii, and a fictional movie. Another tells the rather improbable third-hand tale of two 42 foot cats falling over in an anchorage from a 40 knot gust. (Most modern cats are designed to stay upright with full sail sheeting tight, with a 45 knot wind on the beam.) Pretty lame, jaxie. But its about what we expect from you. "JAXAshby" wrote in message ... BULL****. Yet another idiot claim from our resident clown. check it out, yo-yo. catamarans "out there" sink at an unethical rate as compared to mono's. Check what out? Show us a site that proves that cruising cats aren't safer than monohulls. Another worthless claim from the jaxhole. http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi/read/9154 http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi/read/9182 http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi/read/9275 |
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yeah, the asshole believes in science, facts, experience, limits of positive
stability, structural integrity and 30 knot winds, too. killfile the *******. Poor, poor jaxie. Your post reeks of jealousy. You still haven't given even a single example of a cruising cat problem. Just plonk the troll into your killfile, he is terminally clueless. The existance of a few bad small cats is enough to condemn all multihulls in his tiny mind despite the existance of cats which are unconditionally stable. |
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