The problem with catamaran design is that to make the bridgedeck have standing headroom you either must make the cabin excessively tall or give up the clearance under the bridge deck. That is why so many of today's catamarans have such poor upwind performance. They've got too much windage to sail well to windward.
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Originally Posted by sctpc
Under body shapes: keels and centerboards, Beam & hull-beam ratios, Beam overall – overall wide beam versus standard beam, Displacement but I can`t find any mention of the optimal hight of the bridge deck cabins, Giuliettas post mentions under deck clearance and it`s extremely important but if you build the bridge on top off the bridge deck would that make it extremely unstable as the center of gravity would be to high making the cat useless in any swell.
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