Multihull videos

[ChucklesR]

These are not mine, they are of the same boat I have.
The Webb's on Footprint, sailing in 30 kts of wind, 15 ft waves - on the way from Bermuda to Ireland:



same folks, more bashing:


Different guy, 27 knts of wind; crossing the Gulf Stream off Florida



Sailing in San Fran:


Racing at this years rendezvous:


Same race, rounding a mark.


Note it's not as slow as I let on

[sailingdog]

IIRC, the last two are by Walt and Carolyn, who I've had the pleasure of sailing with. Their boat sails out of New Bedford harbor, and is about mile or so from where I keep mine.

[ChucklesR]

IIRC, the last two are by Walt and Carolyn, who I've had the pleasure of sailing with. Their boat sails out of New Bedford harbor, and is about mile or so from where I keep mine.

Yep, they came down to the PCI / Gemini rendezvous this year. Mary and I missed it.

[lolcat]

You guys round the mark on starboard?

[lolcat]

Nice vids btw, hope you did well during the race.

[ChucklesR]

LOLCat

That wasn't me rounding / racing. I wasn't there.

You round the mark depending on which side the race committee says you round the mark, based on the course as set up at the time.

[sailingdog]

Yeah, we saw a lot of the Geminis coming down the Chesapeake for the Rendevous when we were taking Felix up to the C&D canal.

Yep, they came down to the PCI / Gemini rendezvous this year. Mary and I missed it.

[ChucklesR]

Don't know how I missed this one.

Gemini 105Mc atlantic crossing by the designer/builder and son.

Slow start, but it gets BFS at 20+

at 33:30 you can see them trailing a warp - they are making 16+ knots in 40kts wind and 30 plus ft waves.


Gemini 105Mc - Transatlantic Voyage on Vimeo

[erps]

Anyone wanna go water skiing?

[sailingdog]

Here are two that I generally show people when they ask me about multihulls...


"Quite Depressing"
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Safari Charter, a Gunboat 62
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[ChucklesR]

Yes SD, but the Gunboat is what - 2,3 million.

My little dinky Gemini can be had new for 155k two years ago. At 18 knots (proven via these video's) that's less than 10k a knot, queen sized beds and air conditioning included. Tony and Neil were cruising at over 11 for hours.

What really gets me is cat's and tri's do this with 2 people, those racing monohulls take a crew of 11 winch grinding apes to sail at speed.

[sailingdog]

Yes SD, but the Gunboat is what - 2,3 million.

My little dinky Gemini can be had new for 155k two years ago. At 18 knots (proven via these video's) that's less than 10k a knot, queen sized beds and air conditioning included. Tony and Neil were cruising at over 11 for hours.

Never said the boat was inexpensive...but you probably would be hard pressed to run down a Reichel-Pugh 80...

What really gets me is cat's and tri's do this with 2 people, those racing monohulls take a crew of 11 winch grinding apes to sail at speed.

Yup...and the hardware and gear on the multihulls is often smaller, lighter, easier to handle and far less expensive. Chris White points out that he was able to keep up with a much larger monohull in his Juniper 2, and that the furling unit on the monohull cost more, by itself, than the entire rig on Juniper 2...

[Giulietta]

why people prefer to ride motorcycles instead of atvs??

different tastes..different meanings..different purposes..

I like to sail fast..but to sail fast with no sailing technique effort, or skill requirments and flat..not for me..

to go fast and flat..I use Cigarrette boats

[ChucklesR]

Alex,

Nice of you to say that sailing a multi requires no skill. That's great because that means I can compete with the experts. Maybe I can find a six year old and send him/her on a circumnavigation.

On this one, you have no knowledge.

Now go away

[Giulietta]

Nice of you to say that sailing a multi requires no skill.

that is not what I meant and you know it well what I meant..maybe how I wrote it.

what I meant is that to go fast in a mono you need all the help and skill levels to sail fast..on a mutli hull you sail fast with less skills needed...because the design is inherently fast..

I did not say that you require no skills to sail a multi hull..not at all..ypu require same skills or different ones...but not the same ones needed to make mono sail fast..

sorry for the confusion

[ChucklesR]

:0 got you

Me I screw it up all the time and only sail at 6 knots

[Giulietta]

I have many friends that went from mono hulls to cats, in fact you met one once, when we stopped for dinner, remember?

half love it..especially the space aboard..of them, 3 sold the cats and went back to mono's, because they weren't sailing as they did before, most motor..one after almost capsizing off Sagres, when his cat flew up in the air..and the one you met..is now sailing a Bene 49, and the one with the hybrid cat (you told me the name of the model), had so many problems with the engines etc, that he is getting regular engines installed.

The cat that was next to us in Vilamoura, sailed once this summer..all summer..

so cats are not a favorite choice where I live

[sailingdog]

I wouldn't say that you don't need skill to sail a multihull fast... if you're wanting to do so safely, you need at least as much seamanship as you do on a monohull. If you're really pushing a multihull to its limits, you have to know a lot about what they do in different situations, and how to react properly to prevent sailing on the edge from going over the edge and causing a capsize or pitchpole.

Different boats require you to know and use different techniques. Different boats are better suited for some waters than others. All boats are a compromise, but it really depends on what compromises you're will to accept..

[ChucklesR]

I'm ashamed of myself, but I had to add this one:

[sailingdog]

Talk about weight aloft... that's an abortion of a boat... looks like something Cam would buy.

[ChucklesR]

A couple more to get the juices flowing on a wintry day:

Nine knots, 6 foot of water - no worries.
Catana designs are not my fav, note the helm is on the swim platform/exposed.
There is no helm that is out of the weather.



Surf's up. Outreamer 45 at 22+ knots



Note these are live aboard production boats, not America's Cup one off's.

[T34C]

Chuckles- Do you know of any cats that have twin helms to either side? Is this an option on any?

[ChucklesR]

This one is for SailingDog, a true multihull, with grill.

My apologies to Bud Lite.

[ckgreenman]

a friend of ours has one of these:

CraigCat Official Website || Homepage

[JomsViking]

[sailingdog]

Here's a video from a Chris White Atlantic 55 catamaran as it passes a Gunboat 62 Catamaran.

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[ChucklesR]

A worthy vid of what my boat is all about.

[sailingdog]

He's a damn landlubber... on a boat its stowage...in a house its storage.

[ChucklesR]

Monthly installment - it's winter out so none of me and mine yet:

[sailingdog]

Of course, these guys are the poster children for what not to do...and yet, they managed to make it... and Bumfuzzle was a very expensive lesson in how to buy a badly built boat.

Monthly installment - it's winter out so none of me and mine yet:

[ChucklesR]

You mean it's unusual for two 20's kids to leap in a car, drive to florida, see a boat, buy a boat and start to circumnavigate before they know a jib from a dinghy?
It's a good story of how people can do it, have fun, and make do.

It is sad that South African Cat's got so bad on quality towards the end of the Jaguar / Wildcat line, I was seriously looking at them as a first choice in affordable catamarans. Then I met a Jaguar owner on the Magothy, tied up alongside and got the owner tour as opposed to the boat show tour.
Not just quality errors, look at how rounded the topsides/deck is - not a good platform to walk around on.

Got a Gemini two years later, not looking back.

[ChucklesR]

Why I sail a Gemini.
Monthly installment.

[RocinantePT]

Damn, those monohull guys seem to be having all the fun!

[ChucklesR]

If one tilts his head to 45 degrees when watching this it does seem that way.

[ChucklesR]

Why I don't have video of me doing 14 kts on my Gemini.

Who has time to take the video?

This is a Charter Gemini doing 15 in the BVI:

[sailingdog]

That's pretty heavily heeled for a Gemini...

[MMR]

yea, I get uneasy watching that video!

[Giulietta]

cool!!!!

Looks good...fast too...nice broad reach

[ChucklesR]

5 seconds in, look at the jib- it's fully out past the mast, you can see it through the window in the doghouse roof (what you'd normally call a hard bimini). The comment on the vid says it's reefed. The main isn't either - no bag at the boom

Idiots.