Same boat - 52 ft / 15.6 metre power catamaran operating in Thailand - it looks like the bows have had major surgery. Went from a wave piercing...
Damien Smith (Naval architect and designer based in Australia) has designed an aluminum charter power catamaran in 1C Survey Class for 50...
My herring minor feast (imagined above), was much smaller than I thought it would be, since the cans were mostly full of sauce and not much actual...
idea is to get some of the benefits of wave piercing, spray defection at same time. The youtube of the Cat at speed in rough water shows what a...
Jeanneau sun fast od 2024 longitudinal symmetrical hull and team malizia banana bows are current good choices to reduce slamming and pitching,...
...average performance cruiser cat would benefit much from wave piercing bows vs normal bows. There are plenty of old performance cats that sail...
Take a look at the CW Atlantic 42 Cat design and check out how the “pod” is aft not centrally positioned. Your lounging area is just in front of...
If all living space is in the deck pod I wonder how much smaller the hulls can be. There certainly is some minimum size for fore - aft stability....
...as EG wave-piercing main hull and float design. The wave piercing bows significantly boosts its performance by more buoyancy in the bow and...
...bow. There's again an irony that the appeal of wave-piercing bows was largely said to be the reduction in nosediving, and in small cats they...
That's what Sales, Hype and Marketing is for...to make you feel you have something new, unique and different. Who said anything about...facts! :oops:
...are great when it was just a couple of years ago that the hype was all about wave-piercing bows which are right at the opposite end of the...
...by trends were running around promoting needle-nosed wave-piercing bows, and now they are screaming about scows. Both of them work well in...
...around at the current time) was to go the other way, to wave piercing bows. When there are two almost opposite trends running around at almost...
...in the hull shape. The latest idea is to have very slim wave piercing bows that don't "lift" until about a 25% of the boat is in the wave so in...
It's pretty clear what he means by dangerous, he said it clearly, "the boat will sail of the face of the wave". It's the same as any other boat...
...moment which helps the cat point well upwind. The wave piercing bows and wide underwater transom section helps the hull ride smoothly though...
It’s never quite straightforward is it? Great post. The smaller spiral does reduce things, but the flap, for example has less %. I’ll have to...
The performance of the DSS-assisted version is really amazing (at least my VPP says so). Without DSS it is not bad, but not as great. I once...
Yep, completely agree that scows aren't new; my own first boat was a scow Moth. Yes, arguably scows are normally better only when length is...
