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From: Courtney Thomas (no email)
Date: Fri Jun 03 2005 - 10:57:39 EDT
Who makes the kit to which you refer, please ?
Thank you.
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 06:02, who cares wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> > 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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