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Old 12-30-2003, 01:59 PM
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stability

I've just started learning about catamaran design and im strugglering on the stability side of catamaran designing. Can anyone give me some goood websites on stability

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Old 12-30-2003, 03:10 PM
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For a cat, the only thing you need to know is that when the windward hull is just flying, you are at the position of max stability, and Righting Moment = Displacement * Beam/2

Simple. Just don't ask me to explain monohull stability the same way. ;-)

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