Carbon3 trimaran from Nigel Irens

Discussion in 'Multihulls' started by cardsinplay, Nov 22, 2010.

  1. Blackburn
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    If you want to keep the weight down and primarily go fast, then you can't have any boat with an innerliner. But in order to sell boats, the builders of course find it necessary to make it look presentable... lol

    I saw a nice catamaran today, it's a German design called Cabrio II, being sailed by Asia Pajkowska in the Ostar which just started (the Multi 50 Branec is doing that race). Nice looking cruiser, you'd need a very big trimaran to have as much space and privacy.
     
  2. Corley
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    I'm not arguing that point there is no doubt that cat's offer more physical space. It does depend quite a lot on how much space you want and I'd maintain that a 35'-40' trimaran designed as a cruiser/racer could provide adequate space and payload for a cruising family it would not be anywhere near as spacious as an equivalent cat though.

    I actually think the advantage of a catamaran is not so much in the extra space but the greater privacy offered by the accommodation being divided up into more separate areas.
     
  3. Corley
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    I'd not heard before but Carbon 3 had a M.O.B. during the Palby Fyn Cup which cost them some time and a headsail problem. Sounds like they handled the situation well.

    the original article:

    http://minbaad.dk/nyhed/archive/201...rbon3/?cHash=99c4f2aecbff0f663020891d98d6a80c

    Here is the rough bing translate:

    Carbon3 from Faaborg lost short time one of the six crew members at about 18 on Friday, as the boat passed Lyø in the archipelago in Palby Fyn Cup.

    Fortunately they discovered other crew members with the same thing, that a man was overboard, and after four minutes, they had gotten flipped the boat and pulled him up to safety.

    It writes fyens.dk.

    Sailors at Carbon 3 considers, moreover, that it was an accident with the broken sails and man overboard, which claimed the overall victory.

    Carbon 3 came for in goal number two, but only 10 minutes after the winner SAP Extreme 40 with Jes Gram-Hansen and Rasmus Køstner.

    -It was the 10 minutes, we lacked, and otherwise, had we won, says Eric Quorning, who participated in the voyage around the island of Funen in 35 years.
     
  4. Blackburn
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    ^^^

    If I may assist with the Danish, Corley, it says that crewmember Jakob Frost threw himself on a flaked sail but that it caught more wind and Jakob was then suddenly overboard. Nothing was broken, and they'd recovered Jakob after four minutes.

    At the Fyens.dk link the article there says the 100 sq meter sail filled with wind and threw Jakob overboard - sounds like the furled genaker on the foredeck wasn't furled that well.
     
  5. Corley
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    That's good work getting him back onboard so quick in the last M.O.B. incident I assisted with it took us about 15-20 minutes to recover them. We ended up pulling them onboard over the leeward float on the F-25A trimaran we were sailing on. That was a similar situation crewmember holding a spinnaker sheet and it flicked them overboard like a leaf.
     
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    ^^^

    It's relatively sheltered water around Fyn compared with where you probably sail Corley. They could have let him swim to the nearest pub, and won the race instead.

    ;)

    They don't like coming second to SAP's reserve boat (that team has two), so now they have to prove themselves in the Round Sjelland race, 13 June, I suppose?
     

  7. oceancruiser

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    Within hours of your post Owen same thing reported as happened in the Auckland Fiji race on now.

    Quote "Rescue Coordination Centre said that a crew member had gone overboard and was retrieved within about 10minutes. I'm waiting for more details. "


    Details.
    Crew member rescued from Outrageous Fortune



    Pictured: The crew of Outrageous Fortune in Auckland on Saturday morning

    At 1542hrs yesterday Maritime Radio contacted the RNZYS to advise that Outrageous had withdrawn from the race following an incident onboard. We understand that one crew member had fallen overboard, and that another was injured while rescuing him, and that the first crew member was in the water for 7-10 minutes before he was retrieved.

    Following this initial communication, Outrageous Fortune advised that both crew members are safe and well, but that it was prudent for them to return to New Zealand as quickly as possible. Overnight, the boat told Maritime Radio that both crew members were doing well.

    The boat will continue to be tracked on Yellowbrick, until it arrives safely in port, and is being closely monitored by Maritime Radio. At 0830hrs they are located approximately 300nm north of Auckland, and doing 5.9 knots of boatspeed.

    The 10.5m Tauranga entry Squealer, who was in the same area as Outrageous Fortune for most of yesterday, has reported difficult conditions on the racecourse:

    "It has been a windy, wet 48 hours on board," reports a crew member. "Nothing is dry. The 30 knot Northerly turned NorthWest after the front yesterday and has stayed 25 knots +. We have been sailing with the #3 and no main, not because of the wind, but the sea state which is incredibly confused. Bone jarring drops off cross seas that make the water from the keel forward suddenly disappear!"

    "Life onboard is wet and wet and wet. Sail and sleep is the game."

    Squealer is heading directly for Musket Cove, about 60nm behind Wild Card, which is 220nm behind V5. TeamVodafone is 175nm from Fiji, doing 17.6 knots of boatspeed.

    They say the seastate has also slowed them down, and crew have spent time fixing two breakages - a broken window, and an outhaul strop. They weren't relishing the thought of another day on the wind, and did five sail changes yesterday afternoon and evening. Today they are back up to 15-25knots under solent and one reef, and contemplating a gybe to come later in the day.






    In the same race Vodafone extreme 60 Tri broke it's own record.

    http://www.rnzys.org.nz/NewsEvents/News/tabid/274/ctl/Details/mid/774/ItemID/1126/Default.aspx

    Unofficial record for the race is 3 days and some hours set by David Barkers Cat Sundancer.
     
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