Re: [PCW] Motorsailers, was Engine-room access
Malcolm,
While everyone is excited about motorsailers could you explain the cost
difference? How much diesel could a fellow buy before the sailing gear and
extra construction costs were met?
Best Regards,
Tim Askins
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 06:01:01 -0500> To: power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com>
From: georgs@powercatamaranworld.com> Subject: [PCW] Motorsailers, was
Engine-room access> > Malcolm Tennant wrote:> > >I very much agree that the
catamaran lends itself to being designed as a> >"true motor sailer". In fact I
wrote a chapter in Rod Gibbons book saying> >just this. I think this was 1983
wasn't it Rod? I have since written a> >number of articles extolling the motor
sailer catamaran as "the best of all> >possible worlds". I did, in fact, find
a client for a motor sailer and in> >1984 the Cordova was born. Twenty knots
under power and has reportedly> >sailed at 24 knots. it now has more than
100,000 nautical miles under its> >keel and is still going strong as is my
belief that it is indeed the best of> >all possible worlds".> > Malcolm and
others--> > Could you please explain what it is about the catamaran platform
that > makes it so suitable for motorsailing?> > --Georgs> -- > Georgs
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I would say that a motorsailer would only be
an economical alternative for folks who are
LONG-range ocean cruisers; usable without
sail rigging on a loop cruise by why spend the
money unless you are going big-time ocean
cruising or living aboard.
D C "Mac" Macdonald
m/v Another Adventure
Grand Lake - Oklahoma
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From: Tim Askins taskins@hotmail.com
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Subject: Re: [PCW] Motorsailers, was Engine-room access
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:02:46 -0500
Malcolm,
While everyone is excited about motorsailers could you explain the cost
difference? How much diesel could a fellow buy before the sailing gear and
extra construction costs were met?
Best Regards,
Tim Askins
Reply to Tim Askins.
Dear Tim,
Very difficult question to answer as it depends very much on the cost of
diesel fuel and how automated you make the rig. I seem to remember [it was a
while ago and I would need to delve into the archives] that the cost of an
automated rig would buy enough diesel to take me around the world at the
costs of that time at a typical cruising sail boat speed. So Mac is right.
from a purely economical point of view you would have to do long distances
to justify the cost of the rig. But you need to keep in mind that for most
sailors it is not the cost that is the driving force to cruising under sail.
Because, if they are honest with themselves, the numbers do not stack up
because harnessing the wind is certainly not free. But there are all the
emotional aspects. Perhaps that is the problem for the motor sailer. It is
neither one thing nor the other and certainly costs more than either. But I
still think it could be one hell of a boat!
regards,
Malcolm
Malcolm Tennant Multihull Design Ltd
PO Box 60513 Titirangi,
Waitakere 0642
NEW ZEALAND
ph +64 9 817 1988
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e-mail malcolm@tennantdesign.co.nz
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