Thanks for the contributions , very interesting debate . My cat 13.75 m "
Escape " is a Tenant cat ( since modified by CLD,Lomocean) which has exactly
the good cat characteristics described, Tennant CS hulls , narrow
displacement sections with low fore and aft bouyancy, tankage and engines on
top of the keel and horizontal shafts, and 2.6 length to beam. Malcolm
Tennant when asked this same question of stabilisation told me to get a
bigger boat ! another prominent NZ` designer interestingly suggested the
same idea that Bob Deering raises here..add more weight aloft and slow the
roll. surely not a sail ? I see Foutaine Pajot with their new 55 talking
about zero roll at anchor/slow speed so either someone has figured this out
or they have simply reverted to much fatter hulls and sacrificed the
economy. Again more experienced people than me seem to say every boat is a
compromise, take the gains and put up with it.
--
Tim Chrisp
0274 988 623
Thanks for the contributions , very interesting debate . My cat 13.75 m "
Escape " is a Tenant cat ( since modified by CLD,Lomocean) which has exactly
the good cat characteristics described, Tennant CS hulls , narrow
displacement sections with low fore and aft bouyancy, tankage and engines on
top of the keel and horizontal shafts, and 2.6 length to beam. Malcolm
Tennant when asked this same question of stabilisation told me to get a
bigger boat ! another prominent NZ` designer interestingly suggested the
same idea that Bob Deering raises here..add more weight aloft and slow the
roll. surely not a sail ? I see Foutaine Pajot with their new 55 talking
about zero roll at anchor/slow speed so either someone has figured this out
or they have simply reverted to much fatter hulls and sacrificed the
economy. Again more experienced people than me seem to say every boat is a
compromise, take the gains and put up with it.
--
Tim Chrisp
0274 988 623
