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But, we have much more space plus our weight makes a much smoother ride in rough seas. Our friend Chuck rode with us from Norfolk north in June with 30k wind & 8' seas. He has a catamaran, and after riding with us in the rough stuff is considering a switch to our type of boat.
I know this might sound like a dump question but I really don't know much about multihulls...Is it possible to hove-to with a multihull?? I'm gussing not but like I said, I don't know much about them.
Yes it is. Works very well in fact. Did it for about a half hour during my one week sailing school at Blue Water Sailing School on a 42 foot cat. We tore a jib car out of the track on a MOB drill, so I tacked then hove to. After the fix we went life jacket hunting.
Heaving too is about balancing the sails - works the same on a catamaran.
You do get wind tunneling between the hulls - but really the effect is no more than wind hitting first one side then the other of a mono - you simply balance for it.
Smack - yes, the ride on Xort's boat made up part of my decision.
On the other hand, this is a Gemini sailing in similar conditions:
Not really Peter - hard to get one to span the hulls.
They need to be center mounted.
It can be done, but generally catamarans have the deck space to mount lots of solar power so they go with autopilots because power isn't in that short of a supply.
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