Nano Catamaran

[ricardoribeiro]

Will it be that a catamaran as small how much that has a reasonable acting?
Will it be that the catamaran is stable?
http://boatdesign.net/forums/attachm...6&d=1100975895

[nero]

Guessing that there is too much sail. At 3.5M, perhaps there will be a strong tendancy to capsize in the for-aft manner.

For the small amount of materials it would take, build it and find out.

[Windvang]

How do you get under the boom, when tacking? That is about 0.4 m.
Fun idea though.

[ricardoribeiro]

I don't know like him gets so much depth, that project is of a great Brazilian planner that has the same last name same to mine for coincidence, but I don't know him.
He has a project that a skipper my friend traveled from Senegal to Brazil, alone. http://www.barracudatec.com.br/gal-proj-ribeiro650.htm
That very small one I wanted a lot of to build for small coastal trips.

[frosh]

At 3.5 meters in length, any coastal passage should be limited to a distance that you can swim back to shore. The hulls will pitch like hell in a chop and the ride will be rough. Maybe extend it to 5 meters.