My comment was in reply to another thread about the stability of multihulls,
where
several people said monohulls will quickly fill with water and sink when
knocked
down or capsized. Just trying to make a point that this does not happen in
most
cases. I am actually trying to defend monohulls by pointing out that this
boat survived the knockdown, but unfortunately the man fell overboard.

Larry wrote:

sherwindu wrote in
:

Yes, it's another one of those monohulls going down to the bottom with
their heavy keels.

Sherwin D.



Er, ah, take off the catamaran glasses and read the article, again. The
boat SELF RIGHTED after they fell overboard....as the bilge pumps cleaned
out the mess above that heavy ol' keel.

Of course, he could have been upside down in a cat, gasping for air I
suppose.

He died of hypothermia, not monohullitis. If he'd not been thrown
overboard, he would have been below putting on dry clothes.

While reading rec.boats.cruising, I noticed sherwindu
felt compelled to write:

My comment was in reply to another thread about the stability of multihulls,
where
several people said monohulls will quickly fill with water and sink when
knocked
down or capsized. Just trying to make a point that this does not happen in
most
cases. I am actually trying to defend monohulls by pointing out that this
boat survived the knockdown, but unfortunately the man fell overboard.

Read the thread again, nobody said anything of the sort. Your point in
that thread ws that multihulls can't self-right, the point was made
that that is a multihull weakness, and a situation best avoided. The
monohull weakness is a propensity to sinking once hull integrity is
comprimised.

Incidentally, defending the mono by citing an example where a guy
drowned is close to a perfect foot-shot, imo. Almost as smart as
advising a novice sailor to seek out a vessel with a fractional rig.

Ian