Heavy Weather Strategies When Sailing A Catamaran

Faith Banini #30423 By their nature, larger catamarans are exceptionally safe offshore. It is not unusual to sail through mildly uncomfortable conditions, such as a gale, only to arrive in port and hear sailors on keelboats talk of “surviving” horrendous weather. A large modern catamaran has plenty of buoyancy and exceptional roll inertia. Together these make a capsize, or inversion, highly unlikely. A 30-foot breaking wave hitting a cat abeam will simply make the boat surf sideways. Regardless, anyone venturing offshore in a multihull should be prepared to handle the worst.
Rob Hepler #30534 开云体育 can someone block this spammers membership? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On May 8, 2020, at 12:31 AM, Faith Banini via <faithbanini@...> wrote: By their nature, larger catamarans are exceptionally safe offshore. It is not unusual to sail through mildly uncomfortable conditions, such as a gale, only to arrive in port and hear sailors on keelboats talk of “surviving” horrendous weather. A large modern catamaran has plenty of buoyancy and exceptional roll inertia. Together these make a capsize, or inversion, highly unlikely. A 30-foot breaking wave hitting a cat abeam will simply make the boat surf sideways. Regardless, anyone venturing offshore in a multihull should be prepared to handle the worst.

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