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Peter, I'm not sure why you say a cat is better than a mono? Certainly they
have different attributes but the choice of what makes one type of boat better then another is strictly personal. I grew up racing monohulls and that is what I feel comfortable on. I do see the advantages of a cat: room, sailing flat, shallow draft, but I also see advantages in a mono: load carrying ability, more seaworthy, softer ride. Buying a boat is a personal decision. What is better for you may be worse for me. Fair winds, Bryan "Peter HK" wrote in message ... wrote in message nk.net... So why do people buy cruising catamarans if monohulls in the same price range are just as spacious and can go just as fast ? 1. Shallower draft 2. They can be parked on the beach 3. They don't sink as easily 4. They don't roll like monohulls 5. ??? "Bryan" wrote: We raced our Schock 35 for many years and often there was a multihull fleet sailing the same course. F-28 Corsair Trimarans and others of the same ilk. We were very rarely beaten around the course by those multihulls.. I would tend to agree that in general a large monohull will be as fast if not faster than a cruising cat. There are a number of errors in logic in the above post. People buy cruising catamarans because they are better than cruising monos, albeit generally more expensive. Firstly let me make a comment about speed. In this perennial argument there always seems to be the anecdotal statement that someone in a mono somewhere beat a multi around a course and that means that multis aren't faster. Let me point out the reality. Cruising multis (of similar size) are slower than racing monos. Racing multis are faster than cruising monos. Racing multis are faster than racing monos (clearly evident from all the long distant records and also from the America's cup farce in NZ between the huge mono and the multi half its size where the cat annihilated the mono to windward and held back off the the breeze so as not to jeopardize the subsequent court case). Cruising multis are faster than cruising monos- but not by much as both tend to be overloaded and the evidence that I have seen suggests about a 10% difference. Shallow draft is great. Movement under sail is arguable as multis have a sharper motion but the lack of heel is a big plus. On my cruising cat we never had a glass spill even in 40- 50 knots ( though I admit we weren't beating into it!). Non-sinkability is a huge safety plus and forgotten by the mono brigade. Here in Oz in the last 25-30 years there have been no deaths from multi capsizes but well over 200 deaths from mono sinkings. Multis here are popular and account for 25-30% of boats cruising, so it's not a statistical error. Clearly capsize is not nearly as dangerous as sinking. Better upside-down on the surface than right way up on the bottom. Beaching is not that common. At anchor they can behave poorly, especially in wind against tide situations. In cold climates they are harder to heat and all the deck space is not much use- the converse is true in the tropics. The spaciousness is great if a cat is large enough so that the bridgedeck is a lounge area. This means that the staterooms are separate, the shower/heads are separate, and the whole setup is more like a house. Monos are more like a dormitory. If, given the choice, I would certainly choose a large multi over a large mono for cruising. Peter HK |
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