>Why? Because once I was introduced me to the twin-hull alterative, I >was "spoil't fer life." --------------------------------------------------- I do not know much about twin hulls, but I will relate my one real life experience. I was in Santorini Greece 3 weeks ago. We were out in 8 ft beam seas. Nothing great, nothing bad. (As you can tell from some of the recent posts, lots of days are that way in Greece and Turkey). Our neighbor at the dock said they went out and had to return, "they got the "sh*t beat out of them." They were in a 50 ft power twin hull. I do not remember the make, but it was French, the owner was Australian. ------------------------------------------------------ >My point? Time and again, when my crews are engaged in deliveries of >cats, they relate stories about accompanying monohull cruisers who, >losing their stabilizer systems, find life at sea almost intolerable >(depending, of course, on the sea state and its direction -- in calm >conditions, whether aboard a cat or mono makes little >difference....except that a displacement-hulled cat can cruise at twice >the speed of a displacement-hull monohull). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are right I would not go out in 8 foot beam seas in an unstabilized Nordhavn, but with stabilization I do, something that power twin hulls appear to not be able to do at any time! Oh and for people trying to find docking space for one in the Med, don't count on it! I asked and they said they can find space in about 1 marina in 20, but the cat is very stable at anchor, except for beam seas which is pretty much the full west coast of Italy this year anyway. We found space in a marina about 80% of the time, and we could afford the marina about 80% of the time, to bad it was not the same 80%! This is probably why even though many of the power twin hulls seem to be French, in the Med they are rare. ------------------------------------------------------- Scott Strickland Strickly for Fun Nordhavn 47