Big C - 1.1 Meter long Aluminum Boat, Why not structural adhesives

So you haven't seen the boat; haven't sailed the boat; haven't sailed anything like the boat; and yet you claim to know where the record-breaker who created it, with vastly more experience than you, went wrong.

I see you currently have a surfboard. I'm not sure if you, like the Germans, use that term for what we call a windsurfer. If so, a well-sailed well-equipped windsurfer will do the trip you're talking about much more safely than Big C because at least the board can sail effectively, and be beached easily. If you mean a "normal" surfboard then a SUP would surely be much safer and better than Big C for the trip.

Big C had parts like a Harken roller furler, custom-made sails, and a lead keel. All those cost significant amounts of money that would be far better spent elsewhere for a coastal trip along a coast lined with beaches where it appears that there is never more than 25 nautical miles between ports, and with many alternative refuges such as fisherman's harbours and beaches between the larger havens.

Why choose a craft that cannot go upwind, in which any onshore breeze will leave you at peril of being wrecked, instead of something that can make the longest passage in about 1-6 hours quite easily?

I've done a fair few miles offshore and I'd feel far safer and happier doing that trip in a plastic Sit-On-Top kayak, a SUP or an Optimist than in something like the Big C. Heck, I'd probably rather to the trip swimming (as long as there's not too many nasty things in the water).

 

Simple answer, he always sails wind favorable winds because his boat is square. In short, all wind directions are the same, therefore favorable. Duh.

 

Ahhh, very lateral thinking.

I was Googling that coastline, it looks like a great place to cruise with a beachable boat. Lots of little nooks and crannies, open beaches, some tiny fishing harbours where they pull open boats up the shore. Lots of fun with a lightweight craft, terrible on something deep and slow.

When I was a kid I did weekend cruising on my Windsurfer, sleeping under the sail. It was great fun and this thread has reminded me that hiring a Windsurfer LT in Europe and putting on my lightweight bike touring camping kit would be a great way to explore many of the coastal areas there.