The Chris White Atlantic cats have them, if I recall correctly. Seem to work well, and Alwoplast would likely not use a system that's illegal in...
One of those SMG 50, called "do-re-mi", had a blog following their delivery cruise from Capetown to the Med. They have not posted for some time,...
Where would you put Lorima in your ranking, for quality and value, particularly for a multi?
Here is the flip: https://vimeo.com/125378004
update? Have not heard anything about the outcome of the investigation since May 2013 - any news someone?
A chart table in a pilothouse or decksalon should always be placed to starboard. It usually also is a secondary steering station (via autopilot)....
some larger yachts, like the SMG catamarans, use boomless rigs combined with behind-the-mast vertical mainsail furlers. Sail profile could surely...
It is about making an otherwise difficult boatsize manageable for a small crew. Example: An Atlantic 57 catamaran is about the max. size...
Where would you put that performance advantage of a conventional rig vs. A-Frame in numbers? Same boat, same sail area, boatspeed close-hauled =...
Here is what the french press said: Le catamaran n’avait plus son gréement d’origine, car ce dernier a été renforcé par un nouveau mât carbone de...
150ft Frers Classic When Dennis Kozlowski, the former chief executive of Tyco International Ltd., went to jail in 2003, he left behind at...
my best guess from the report: a poorly engineered drip tank, providing a set of communicating tubes between 3 stern compartments, one develops a...
Their www pages / specification mention 7 watertight compartments - strange indeed !
The easiest way, for a bigger boats/higher loads, would be hydraulic sheet trimming cylinders with an emergency release valve. They would tie...
The good suppliers offer to assemble a bank of batteries from the same production batch, which helps a bit with equalizing useful service life for...
Same here: had Panasonic Toughbook for 3 years now, without any problem except a CD drive that froze (probably lack of use, exchanged under...
Also, a cut-out on the inward side can be very useful when boarding from a dinghy, particularly in a choppy anchorage
" ... he wants to have the local smiths fabricate him a 25kg anchor.... " that sounds to me like looking for a commercial copy of a patented design
Note that the Bügel Anker is patent protected.
sorry for not being clear enough: my reference to complexity was directed towards both the twin masts on a 47' cat and the aft mast rig with its...
