: Re: [PCW] Sinking Catamarans? > Few mariners have devoted more concentrated thought to these questions than the late, lamented Phil Weld. He spent five days trapped beneath his ocean racing trimaran "Gulf Streamer," which had been capsized off Bermuda by a rogue wave. Upon returning to his Massachusetts home, he promptly built a new trimaran, appropriately named "Rogue Wave," and set to sea in her. ________________________________________________ I remember that event very well. I wrote in a forum subject on Rogue Waves, " I've come to find out that it's those meandering circular eddies at the irregular edges of the Gulf Stream that can produce some very 'freak' waves in storm conditions. Phil Weld spent 5 days under his inverted racing tri Gulf Streamer off of Burmuda as a result of one of these freaks. He named his next tri 'Rouge Wave'." more rogue wave <http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4365&highlight=rogue+wave>