* stormtactic wrote, On 6/16/2007 9:30 AM:
Hi

I have read a fair amount of hype about the sailing performance of the
Gemini 34Mc Catamaran.

Anybody around sails one, does it live to the expectation?

I don't know much about that particular cat; we bought a PDQ after
rejecting the Gemini on "mediocre construction" grounds. It really
isn't that bad, but we want to go a bit upscale on this boat.

I can say that cat performance is highly dependent on loading. Our
boat easily lived up to the "more than half the wind speed"
expectation, including easily doing 12 knots in a 20-22 knot breeze
when it was new. But now with 8 year of accumulated crap, its been a
while since we've been much over 10 knots.