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From: who cares (no email)
Date: Fri Jun 03 2005 - 07:02:43 EDT
David, which countries $ do you refer to? In Australia you can buy a
brand new sailaway 40' Cat, build in industrial quality resin-infusion
composite for AU$ 200,000, that is about US$ 150,000, or you purchase
the kit - fits into a standard container - and save labour cost. If
you insist in European cats, then you pay the surcharge as everything
is terrible expensive here plus the overhead of the American Import
company.
I sailed Asia, Indian Ocean and Med, whenever our speed was below 50%
of windspeed I was nervous, unless beating, as in going up Red Sea,
headwind from Hanish Islands to Athens, yes that was slow (over
ground) and jamming and noisy and wet, but never ever a problem in
galley or bunks, sometimes in the front toilets, like a free ride in a
roller coaster ;-) ok, use rear toilets.
World cruising stands for long distance cruising, and this in the long
run, is never done against the wind, you cannot beat the tradewinds,
you go with them. But downwind with a cat in the trades is a beautiful
ride, maybe that is, what Rick was thinking about.
Peter
--- In , dlm48 at a dot dot dot wrote:
>
> In a message dated 03/06/2005 02:11:03 GMT Daylight Time, nigiil at y dot dot dot
> writes:
>
> it
> would be nice not to spill my drink while sailing in
> 25knots wind at a 12-14knots hull speed!!! :)
>
> Rick
> s/v BOATZILLA
>
>
>
> that is a dream a total fantasy on a blue water cat at prices of
around
> $100k unless you stay very very very light - 25 knots of wind on a
Catanta 471
> (say $750k) YES for sure not a problem - have managed 20 knots in
25 knots
> of true wind - on a lagoon 42 i would suggest 10 knots maybe 12
knots - on a
> Lagoon/ Privilege 37 8 knots maybe 9 knots THEN/AND with the seas
and the
> waves that 25 knots of wind brings and with a cat doing 14 knots it
is going to
> be a very bumpy ride i have known people get thrown out of their
bunks in
> that sort of situation so you better have a gyro stabilised drinks
holder WITH a
> secure lid on the container too if you don't want to spill your drink.
>
> regards
>
> David
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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