I'll have some more to add to this discussion later, but right now I couldn't
resist posting this very recent observation by the technical editor at
Yachting World:
"Two Hulls are better....
If you grew up with monohulls I suspect you, like me, find it difficult to
really trust a multihull beyond the sight of land.
Make a mistake in a monohull 'lead mine' and you'll get wet, maybe break a few
things, but eventually you'll bounce back up. Get it wrong in a multihull and
you're left learning to live upside down until help arrives. The fact that
you’re less likely to sink having done so, is cold comfort for those of us
who don't mind life at 30 degrees heel.
The bottom line is that sailing offshore in a multihull is a risky business.
Or is it??
Within the space of a few days early this year, two keels had fallen off a
pair of Open 6os shortly before a 75ft trimaran crossed the finish line after
having scorched around the world at a blistering pace. And this was no
one-off.
Of all the recent round the world attempts in multihulls, several have lost
rigs, foils and parts of their structure, but none has yet capsized.
Stack that against the number of keel failures and near fatal capsizes aboard
monohulls and I can't help wondering whether I am deluding myself by choosing
between the two."
Matthew Sheahan
Technical editor
Yachting World
....beginning to sound like another convert, Brian
Brian Eiland
beiland@usa.net
http://www.RunningTideYachts.com
distinctive multihull expedition yachts
I'll have some more to add to this discussion later, but right now I couldn't
resist posting this very recent observation by the technical editor at
Yachting World:
____________________
"Two Hulls are better....
If you grew up with monohulls I suspect you, like me, find it difficult to
really trust a multihull beyond the sight of land.
Make a mistake in a monohull 'lead mine' and you'll get wet, maybe break a few
things, but eventually you'll bounce back up. Get it wrong in a multihull and
you're left learning to live upside down until help arrives. The fact that
you’re less likely to sink having done so, is cold comfort for those of us
who don't mind life at 30 degrees heel.
The bottom line is that sailing offshore in a multihull is a risky business.
Or is it??
Within the space of a few days early this year, two keels had fallen off a
pair of Open 6os shortly before a 75ft trimaran crossed the finish line after
having scorched around the world at a blistering pace. And this was no
one-off.
Of all the recent round the world attempts in multihulls, several have lost
rigs, foils and parts of their structure, but none has yet capsized.
Stack that against the number of keel failures and near fatal capsizes aboard
monohulls and I can't help wondering whether I am deluding myself by choosing
between the two."
Matthew Sheahan
Technical editor
Yachting World
____________________________
....beginning to sound like another convert, Brian
Brian Eiland
beiland@usa.net
http://www.RunningTideYachts.com
distinctive multihull expedition yachts
