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Why do people buy cruising catamarans ?
"Capt. JG" wrote: But your making all sorts of assumptions about monos! On the one had, you're making the assumption of a freak wave with no preparation or warning - on the other, you're assuming that all the hatches, etc. on the mono are closed and ready for battle. You can't have your cake and eat it too. My point is that if you close your hatches and prepare your boat properly, you have a good chance of coming through a bad storm. Naturally, if you don't, you decrease your chances of keeping the boat afloat. watertight compartment with my boat floating upside down. The problem with taking a multihull on an extended voyage, say an ocean crossing, is that the chances of running into real bad weather increase. Actually, they decrease, since you won't be out as long as with a mono. Now, if you want to argue that way, you could say that SINCE multis go faster, then people would be tempted to select smaller weather windows, and thus open themselves up to greater danger. :-) What I meant was that any boat is exposed more to bad weather possibilities on a long voyage. Actually you can get stung on shorter hops. I left Key West once to go up the back country of the Keys, where there are no ports, on the advise of the weather forcast that called for reasonable winds, with a small disturbance over Cuba. That next day, it had turned into a hurricane and I was lucky it only passed me by within 100 miles, so I rode it out at anchor. You never know. In the very extreme, one can take down all sails in a monohull, batten down the hatches, put out a sea anchor and ride things out. If for some reason the boat is rolled over, it will right itself. Can't say the same thing for a multihull. Granted this is an extreme case, but if I were planning an ocean crossing, it would certain cross my mind as a possibility. Again, you're making the assumption that NOTHING can be done to get a multi to get through the situation. This is far from true. OK. What do you do if your multihull does flip over? I hear about crawling into one of the watertight compartments, but I wonder about the practicality of this, and where do you go from there? Please describe your offshore, extreme weather sailing on a mono that causes you to have these views! You can find some of them in my recent posts to this thread. I have no first hand experience sailing multihulls, but am basing my thoughts on how sailboat behave, in general, and what I know about Fluid Mechanics, Stability, etc., from an engineering point of view. |
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