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From: bessyboop2000 (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 23:18:42 EDT
From Steve Honour on Cruising World message board:
OI's were built in Florida for the purpose of hitting the outer
islands of the Bahamas. You need a shallow draft boat for this and
being a relatively short trip, interior stowage was reduced in favor
of voluminous cabin interiors. The resulting large cabin also is
bereft of sufficient bulkheads for serious sea work.
When I was young and inexperienced, I used to wonder why so many
large boats had their interiors chopped up into small spaces. I
couldn't understand why with a large boat you couldn't have a large
cabin space. I was more impressed by the boats like the OI which had
relatively large interiors. After 38 years of sailing, I now know
why. The sea and big waves impart tremendous stresses on a boat with
a keel under it, a big rudder on the stern and a rig on top. These
forces impart a twisting effect on the hull/deck as if giants hands
have siezed the vessel and are attempting to wring it out like a
little rag. The result is that the entire hull and deck "work". They
move slightly with respect to each other. This "working" motion
causes fittings, hatches and ports to shift ever so slightly in
their beddings and become leaky. The worst case is that eventually
things fail and the entire assembly rips apart. You don't want to be
in a boat when this happens. You want a big keel and to have it deep
down there for stability. It takes a stronger boat to support this.
The OI, with its shallow keel is the opposite.
Bulkheads add strength to the structure. The more, the stronger.
That is why serious offshore boats are all compartmentalized off.
Because of strategic placement of bulkheads and partial bulheads.
You can hardly have too many. When you see a boat like a Hunter (NOT
an offshore boat) it looks impressive to the inexperienced because
it is large and airy inside. Looks like home. But lack of structure
and multitudes of large cheap ports and hatches are a bad
combination in a big sea. When you see a boat like a Hinckley, it
may not show as well but that is the one which impresses my
experienced eye more. You get what you pay for.
I have read other clips that rave about there live a board comfort
out weighing the less then favorable "pointing" ability and small
sail plan yet owners agree that not many races but comfort is what
they wanted anyway. any other comments out there??? good and bad...
I would go to the morgan (sailjazz) forum but that would be more in
favor.
bess
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