It is designed to displace period. I have never seen better than 1. That's my opinion and it is subject to the freak moments when the rule and my observation can be broken but those times are not consistent or often. JCD , Nov 28, Slow is the way to go Hello Bruce, Your speeds are a little less than what I plan on. I usually think about East Coast Australia - usually sailing downwind We have done less and more over the day usually daylight coastal hops Our best run ever was miles from Coffs to Southport in 16 hours.
It doesn't take long before you realise that getting there happy and easily is better than getting there earlier and frazzled. I cruised a Twiggy tri for a few years and we used to fang everywhere at first - but we got tired and bummed out. I am a racer too but even my thirst for performance gave way to desire for peace and comfort.
Before people get excited about speeds on test sails they have to remember that most cruising boats are sailed under autopilot by shorthanded crews. What they can achieve in ideal conditions on a short sail with lots of people on board is vastly different from what cruisers sail at.
Kankama a 38ft strip plank Chamberlin got passed by about 3 cruising boats in 3 seasons cruising. That was when we had no kite up so there aren't that many fast boats whizzing around. A fast looking long cat with a big rig will probably go around with smaller sails and fewer extras than a smaller boat.
The contrary thing about talking too much about extra performance is that it costs so much. A carbon 60ft cat will go twice as fast as a simple 35footer. It will cost maybe ten to thirty times as much so you have to stay at work for a much longer time to get one if you get one at all The fastest cat is a simple one that gets you out there a season or two earlier or out there at all.
The speed data published in recent times justifying one particular design over another needs to be placed in context, especially for those ineperienced folk buying a cruising multihull for the first time.
Bruce Woods , Nov 30, It's important to remember that nearly all reports of long high speed passages are decribing racing or record attempts. Most well designed multihulls can sustain 15 knots under the right wind conditions Phil, you nailed it. Sailing fast is hard work.
Exhilarating and loads of fun for a while, but certainly not a part of cruise planning. Anchored every night, and got there in 5 days. Alan M. JCD , Nov 30, I would agree with the other comments. It is indeed hard to sail over miles a day. In part because the further you sail the slower the average speed. But mainly because, when cruising, high speeds are uncomfortable. Having said that, here is a quote from a friend who just sailed a monohull from the Galapogos to Costa Rica. Her only other sailing was on a 33ft catamaran called Rush, a boat I crossed the Atlantic in last year.
And also a boat that I found to be just about the most uncomfortable catamaran I had ever sailed. Anyway, she said: "Monohulls versus catamarans! Well is there a choice!! There is nothing worse than your brains racing from side to side in your head when you are lying down. You know, it could have been worse, there is always worse. I have bumped around in Rush at times too but then the seas were a lot worse than we encountered on this trip. Pity help it if they had been worse, I can now see why so many monos motor sail.
Still, most mainstream sailors remained reluctant to accept this new fast-cruising paradigm and multihulls largely remained the province of tubby charter boats or all-out racers. Then, in late , Peter Johnstone—of the Johnstone sailing family—set out to find an alternative to his foot cruising monohull. Johnstone wanted something fast and comfortable that also provided the sort of performance he had grown accustomed to on high-performance maxi catamarans such as Playstation and Team Adventure.
The family then set off for their cruise aboard TRIBE in and Johnstone quickly realized he was on to something big: a boat with chisel-like bows, daggerboards and a performance-minded design capable of to mile days in cruising mode with a seakindly ride.
I pinched myself: rare is the day when one gets to savor a five-star lunch while sailing north of 20 knots, not a single hair disrupted. Yet it was obvious that Sugar Daddy was perfectly balanced, with her big, powerful bows riding the swells as her carbon-fiber daggerboards provided plenty of lift. Bruce would know: he and his wife, Nora, and their crew managed to rack up a 70,plus miles aboard three different Gunboats.
We traded tacks for 10 miles—we were a little quicker and slightly lower. These days, yacht manufacturers are building more high-performance cruising catamarans, each offering a different blend of performance and cruising characteristics achieved through the use of new materials, creative weight allocation and improved daggerboard design coupled with a focus on onboard amenities.
The goal is speed, performance and offshore comfort, both in the strong stuff and, more importantly, in whispering airs that park-up monohulls.
TAG yachts has developed an incredible safety system that uses rig load-cells and a heel-angle function that automatically eases the sheets before the vessel gets to any critical or unsafe point. Daggerboards also help the vessel on other points of sail and in rough weather. According to Johnstone, the ability to lift and lower boards improves offshore safety. Onboard comfort is the final major design consideration. While ocean-racing fanatics might gravitate toward minimal accommodation plans, most sane minds prefer some comfort.
As adventurous as a sub-four-day transatlantic passage sounds, anyone could get used to night watches spent at warm, dry helm stations. Yet modern technology helps reduce weight here, too.
Others agree. These are NOT the sounds you want to hear as you trailer your boat to the launch ramp. I was about a mile away from the ramp at the time, and looking in the rearview mirror I immediately noticed Betty Jane, my Mystic 20 Catboat, was now riding a good deal However, it recently occurred to me Following a taco dinner and brief nap at anchor, the Swan 59 Icebear set sail from Falmouth, Antigua, weighing anchor at about 20 minutes to midnight.
The first passage of the season had begun. After all, how can you pick a highlight on, say, Day 2? I broke that rule, though, on a recent sail through the Exumas, the chain of Bahamian islands that extends in a southeasterly direction Brown completed the We were heavily loaded, had cruising sails and were certainly not in racing trim.
The definitive speed comparison between monohulls and catamarans is most apparent at the annual Around Long Island Race ALIR , which takes a fleet of ca. The catamarans usually start about one hour after the leaders and it is not uncommon for us to have overtaken the entire fleet within the first 40 miles of the course.
Many proponents of monohulls will say that sailing upwind is not the strength of catamarans, yet it is always on that first leg sailing to weather, where we pass almost the entire fleet. Boat speed has won wars, turned commercial fisherman into wealthy entrepreneurs and has also been a contributor of safety. In battle, a fast warship could outmaneuver its adversary or even escape from a boat with more firepower.
Higher performance meant that Gloucester Schooners, years ago could race against each other back to port and offer the freshest catch at the highest price. Just as proven in history, speed of a sailing yacht is important and gives a faster yacht more options.
Catamaran speed is relative. Personally, I find, the most important benefit of speed of a multihull is the ability to outrun bad weather. Being able to average 9- 10 knots on a catamaran rather than knots on a monohull, will give you more options in your strategy to avoid bad weather. Getting to your destination quicker and shaving off days on a transatlantic voyage will simply mean that you have, mathematically estimated, less chance of getting the toilet clogged, running into a submerged container or falling overboard.
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