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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 19:27
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Do you see any keel canting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFrnkV5ACa8&feature=youtu.be

Again what matters narrow or beamy is the position of the CG. A beamier boat with an equivalent B/D...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 17:57
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

You mean because they are the more demanding boats in what regards safety items: The ability to right itself in flat water without any outside help, the huge positive stability the very good dynamic...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 13:41
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

They really sail flat. 10 to 15º I would say.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 13:35
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

You seem to have a problem with information: you reefer to an accident happened 15 years ago on a boat designed 19 years ago.

I said:

"In fact on the last years (since the boats were improved)...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 11:04
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

The beamy boats lightly ballasted, as you call them, are practically almost all contemporary cruisers. They are only lightly ballasted because as they are light they need less ballast, as they have...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 10:41
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

I really don't know if you don't know or if you pretend that you don't know but the only contemporary solo French Open60's (Sense is a contemporary design) that stayed upside down were those that...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 09-03-2014, 08:28
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

That old type designed hull, kind of Swan type of the 80's is still what some consider the most seaworthy type of sailboat around. Take a look at the beginning of the movie and consider that these...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 08-03-2014, 19:29
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Yes, by being beamy means that they have a huge form stability to join to the RM provided by the ballast and that they are, like the cats, much more dificult to capsize then narrower boats with an...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 08-03-2014, 14:08
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

There are several ways to measure AVS, the one used by ISAF for racing gives lower numbers than the one used on European RCD, an ISO procedure. Regarding an ISO AVS a First 36.7 with standard keel...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 07-03-2014, 18:49
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Sorry about that. The hulls are not that different but here you have it corrected, now both about the Sense 55:

Here is what Bluewater sailing magazine said about that when they tested the Sense...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 07-03-2014, 18:01
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

No, I do not work for Beneteau and never had a Beneteau but is hard for me that you seem to fail to understand that the cheap Ikea particle board that furnished your daughter's dorm room (if only...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 07-03-2014, 16:07
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

What do you mean by Beneteau's design theam? They are not like Catalina or Hunter. The boats are not designed "in the house" but by some of the best French NA; almost all have been or are actively...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 07-03-2014, 09:22
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

It seems that everybody is forgetting that the Sense has a hull heavily influenced by the one of a solo racer, the type of boats that make the Vendee Globe. They do not seem marina boats to me:D...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-03-2014, 12:36
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Yes you are right, There are tastes to everything but one thing is a taste other is efficiency in what regards a use (lighter cabinets).

Some don't like "plastic" boats either.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-03-2014, 10:43
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Sure the professional testers that chose it for European boat of the year among a big choice are just blind or on the Beneteau pay role:rolleyes:

It would not be more correct to say that you don't...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-03-2014, 10:33
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Not the one used normally on boats (cheap) and regarding cheap I remember Bavaria that used real wood on the Cabinets not long ago. The material used on boat cabinets are not normal particle board...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-03-2014, 09:44
Replies: 262
Views: 74,496
Posted By Polux
Re: Beneteau Sense Quality Issues

Boats have never been built better than now. The idea that old boats were better built is just a mirage. The control quality is much better now as well as the building techniques and the huge...
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