Monohull or Multihull Sailboat?

[Joli]

Carefull with your insults Sparohok. Lets have an open discussion about performance and the boats we sail everyday.

IMO: using your rating system for Mono's
Class 1: TP 52, One-Off's, AICC
Class 2: Farr 40, Mumm 30, most Thompsons
Class 3: J 35, J 105, Mumm 36, Stomp, Schock 35
Class 4: J44, Tartan 41, C&C, Swan, J109
Class 5: Morris, Pearsons, Catalinas, Beneteaus, Hinckley
Class 6: IP's, Pacific Seacrafts, Whitby's....

If you say a Privlage is only class 5 so be it, but to call a J44 a racer is silly. The performance level is pretty far down the hill from the purpose built racers. I consider the J44 a cruiser that can be raced for fun, as any boat can be if enough are present to make a start.

The fact that there is critical mass for many monos allows one design racing but that fact alone does not define the boat. Catalina 27's race one design, would you consider that a hot racing boat?

Originally Posted by Sparohok

Once again I am struggling to understand this logic, except that you are being intentionally obtuse. I said that the J44, which has a one design class, can be used for racing and for cruising. Why would I turn around and claim that the Gunboat can only race?

Charles Kanter rates catamarans using 6 classes: 1) Experimental/high performance, 2) Racing, 3) Racing/sport cruisers, 4) Cruising/racing, 5) Cruising, 6) Residential/utility. He classifies the Gunboat 48 as class 2/3, and the Privilege 43 as class 5. The J44 would probably be class 3, and I would argue that a boat with an active one design class is almost certainly in class 2 or 3.

It is crystal clear that, sophistry and wordplay aside, the Privilege and the J44 are completely different kinds of boat.