On Aug 24, 12:47*pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
...
Not much of a sailing trip. Sounds like more motoring than sailing. But,
that seems to be the norm for cruising catamarans that tend to be so below
their designed LWL by the time a family loads them up with all kinds of
extraneous crap. ...

I don't see why it matters what power was used. By oar, paddle, mule,
gas, diesel, sail or whatever, if it's cruising it's on topic. I also
don't see where you're getting your ideas about catamarans. Rodger
says he used 35 gallons of fuel to travel less than 500 miles on his
monohull. On my catamaran I used about the same amount of fuel
traveling from Honolulu to San Francisco and I thought that was
excessive. I used much less than that sailing from New Zealand to
Honolulu. Two of us live on my Catamaran and have done so for years
and yet we still make pretty quick passages. Anyway, if Rodger uses
35 gallons of fuel on a Maine cruise and Jeff uses some similar amount
of fuel in similar cruising grounds I think that probably says more
about Maine in the summer than it does about differences between cats
and monos.

-- Tom.