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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2007 - 16:05:11 EST
I agree i am a lover of Cats for quite a few reasons sadly not the
additional cost vis a vis a mono - I even like the Voyage 440 as well as a lot of the
Lagoon range and the Leopard range but sail a mono a nice and fast one. In
extremis (before you get into survival conditions when it is down to luck 99%
of the time no matter what style of boat you are in) a mono is self tending
unlike a cat which will flip if things get hairy and your not on your toes or
highly experienced. I was somewhat disturbed to see the British cat
designer Richard Woods abandon his cat when he got caught out in a Caribbean storm -
sad because when the shit hit the fan what he had written suddenly was a
load of tosh and he failed to walk the talk - he pressed the panic button as he
was afraid of the cat flipping or breaking up and got off the boat (later
discovered afloat). So much for a cat being able to outrun the weather due to
its ability to sail faster than a mono - good to read about in the sales blurb
but seemed to fail the practical test big time and this must have been a
somewhat experienced owner designer builder - so your average husband and wife
crew would be in deep deep poo in a similar situation. I hate to say i think i
am 'attracted to the Amel range' for Blue Water Cruising a boat i had a
'distinct' dislike for until i spent a few days living and sailing on one - IF
you just going to island/bay hop doing 20/150 mile sprints with days and days
at anchor in between then i am sure a 40 (ish) foot cat is a great option.
Though my female partner who i would have expected to be a cat fan says it does
not feel like sailing as it is not heeled over - so kunfoosed i am expecting
her to want to sail on an upright non heeling cat.
regards
David
In a message dated 10/01/2007 18:52:13 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
All boats are compromizes. If you are anorexic about weight, multi's may be
faster. In reality, we found them no faster than even our supposedly slow W32
when loaded for cruising on long passages. Mono's are much more forgiving of
inattention at the helm. That is enough to cancel out my ever voyaging in a
multi.
Aloha
Peter O.
(mailto:) wrote:
In a message dated 10/01/2007 13:50:41 GMT Standard Time,
(mailto:) writes:
I'm not getting into the mono versus multihull debate, as I think both are
wonderful and capable craft that meet their owners' requirements.
NOR me but i note with some horror that three died (at least one was very
very experienced multihull sailor) delivering a Voyage 440 Cat on the west
coast
of America recently the cat was found dismasted and upside down on the
beach.
regards
David
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