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Seaworthiness of Mac26
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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