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  1. wannabe
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    wannabe Junior Member

    could anybody tell me if there is a ratio on length to beam for completed catamarans and catamaran hulls ?
    thanks :cool:
     
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  2. SailDesign
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    SailDesign Old Phart! Stay upwind..

    Each cat HAS a ratio :), but No, there is no magic formula - all are different.

    Steve
     
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    See Shuttleworth's "Multihull Design Considerations for Seaworthiness". He has stability indices for both sideways wind-driven capsize and pitchpole. He recommends 40 mph as the stability factor for cruising cats.

    Most cruising cats have a distacnce between centerlines near half the waterline length. The overall beam can be misleading because of flared hulls. See Kanter's "Cruising On More Than One Hull" for a discussion of the merits of different length/beam ratios in cruising catamarans.
     
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