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From: ShanicaJII (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 09:52:36 EDT
You can right a flipped cat, Its well documented, You need a good Dinghy
with a strong outboard on it. (like a RIb with a 30hp on it.) You rig a
bridle between the bows and then run a long line (anchor line?) back between
the hulls to the dinghy and drag the Cat backwards. The Stern digs in and
"pitch poles" upgight. I've never seen it done, but seen it may time in the
multihull rags.
Pierre.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Goodwin" <>
To: "SnJ -" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Catamaran life...
> > My point was made simply to illustrate that a cruising cat is a very
stable
> > vessel. They don't run on one hull like a hobie cat is designed to do.
If
> > mine ever did that I would have a cardiac.
>
>:-)) Yes, I think I would too.
>
> You are providing some very interesting information about cats that I
> have not heard before. I am starting to form a whole different opinion
> about them.
>
> > He admited that they were going way too fast for the sea and wind
conditions
> > and that his error was the cause of the accident.
>
> I know the feeling, having lost, years ago when I was ignorant and
> inexperienced :-), one mast to too much sail up in too much wind,
> another to the 14th Street Bridge in Wash, D.C. (yup, same one the plane
> hit a few years later), and yet another small one to an electric wire
> while hauling it up a ramp on a trailer. Not a very good place for a
> wire, but I should have seen it anyway.
>
> Now if someone could just invent an easy way to right a flipped cat, and
> an easy way to lower a large mast to get under bridges, both types of
> sailing would benefit immensely, especially when I'm on board. :-)
>
> Dick
>
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