Check out Multihullworld (BROKER) who have a 37 Snowgoose in UK at the moment, in the details section there is a Practical
Boat Owner Magazines trial when new stating sailing speed were generally half the
wind speed in the F3 conditions, mainly reaching.
My brother sailed Red Sea -
Seychelles - Mauritius - Durban in the 70's in his 'goose.
He reckoned to tack comfortably through 90 degrees, never had problems going into irons, spent a good deal of time analysing sail performance and was impressed by the lack of any wake.
However, the
Events have the hulls expanded inwards to accomodate proper double beds and although this is done at the waterline there must be some effect. The central nacelle seems to sit lower too, see Catello on the above site.
They are the safest, easiest ocean sailor's
boat. Unsinkable,
single handed with the rear set
mast, built into the rear bulkhead, and there are only a few mods to do to them. Wife, bless her, wants the double
bed of the Event. Solo I'd settle fot a proper goose.
Extend the
mast by putting a section at the foot. Replace
rigging with this modern pastic stuff, it's amazing weight saving, keep reflectors and stuff low to reduce
pitch and roll. Search for 'parasail', they make interesting claims on flying at 50 to the app. wind and provide a very stable flying off-the-wind
genoa thing.
Ron Underwood, ex MD at Prout and now with BB, reckons they were conservative on mast height and reminded us they were new at the time and their
safety record is impeccable. His own 'goose had a taller rig, 'Chello' was available recently.
I'm getting deeply frustrated in having to wait for the house to sell to buy mine and get gone.