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From: Lynn H. Ogden (no email)
Date: Sat Oct 15 2005 - 13:49:36 EDT
Doug:
Would you please send me the formulae for your factors, risks, and ratios in the email below as well as the meaning and range of each.
Thanks!
LO
"There are three positions for the sails - in, halfway, and out. Anything else is the effete fiddling of dinghy sailors."
H. W. Tilman: as quoted in Optimum Cruising by "Yachting Monthly", March,
1990, p. 5.
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug
To:
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:17 PM
Subject: [world-cruising] Re: Beneteau Oceanis 461
Ian,
No personal experience, but based on the numbers, I would say it
might not be the best. Capsize ratio is getting up there, comfort
factor fairly low and acceleration quite high.
Doug
NAME: BENETEAU OCEANIS 461
DESIGNER: FARR
LOA: 45.9 feet
LWL: 39.1 feet
BEAM: 13.9 feet
DISPLACEMENT: 20944 pounds
SAIL AREA: 907 square feet
SAIL AREA / DISP = 19.2
CAPSIZE RISK = 1.95
COMFORT FACTOR = 23.6
DISP / LWL = 156
VMAX / VHULL = 1.13
ACCELERATION = 0.149 g's
LOA / BEAM = 3.30
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> Does anyone have any comment re the Beneteau Oceanis 461, good and
bad and
> its ability to do long ocean passages?
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> Ian
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