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From: who cares (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 18:00:16 EDT
If you got time and want world-cruising, look in Australia or New
Zealand, cats are cheaper there, in South Africa and Brazil too and
youl'll have a nice sail home. Do not be scared of the distances, a
1000-mile trip starts with one step and the next and so on. Afterwards
you will say, it was great fun!
Shuttleworth is nice, but expensive and very complicated to build
yourself. For our new cat I choose a Wilderness kit from
http://www.schionningdesigns.com.au
Advantage of the kit: easy and fast to assemble. Though I am from
Europe, we build in the Philippines, saving a lot on labour. A hull
can be assembled in two months. Our last one, a really beautifull
strip planked 47' WEST system build floating home, took two years.
Just to much work, but see for yourself.
If 40' will do, this is a very well priced kit of completle
prefabricated elements, even finished paint. Basic Sailaway but ALL
NEW for US$ 151,000!! http://www.emultihulls.com/Pages/fusion/fusion.htm
I was considering this for a long time, but 40' is a little small for us.
Other nice design from down under:
http://www.tcdesign.co.nz
http://www.lidgarddesign.com mono & multihull designs
more for the guys with the bigger toys:
http://www.gunboat.info/ a cat from one world
http://www.kkg.at/de/179/ cats from another world. the first novara
was a shuttleworth design, still similar lines here
May your dreams become true ;-)
Peter
--- In , Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at j dot dot dot >
wrote:
> Thanks for the Shuttleworth link.
>
> Any idea what current DIY construction costs are for a Shuttleworth
> design in the 35-40 foot range ?
>
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:17, Andy Repton wrote:
> > Thanks to Dwight for his excellent post re mono vs cat. I'd just
like to
> > comment on one point:
> >
> > > Tacking. A cat won't tack as nicely as a monohull. Sometimes you
have
> > > to backwind the jib in light airs or you'll go into irons instead of
> > > tacking. A bad sail configuration will really mess up a cat.
> >
> > this is unfortunately true of the large 'condominarams' that are
popular
> > in the charter fleets, but is most definately not true of modern
> > properly designed catamarans. One quote from an owner of a
Shuttleworth
> > designed 40ft cat springs to mind "she tacks in her own length". This
> > catamaran recently sailed from England to Australia via Panama etc
with
> > a family of four on board.
> >
> > For anyone interested in catamaran design, both racing and cruising, I
> > highly recommend John Shuttleworth's website,
> > http://www.john-shuttleworth.com
> >
> > Andy (who would *love* to have the Shuttleworth 63 cat, now called
> > Dulcinea, for cruising)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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