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Originally Posted by bluenomads
Interesting that reportedly Malcolm Tennant said that the only change he would make to his 60' long-range power cats (like Domino) was to add a mast. The mast didn't even need a sail, but would assist to slow down the flick speed of the roll.
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That's what they're primarily used for and I'm not a yacht
designer by any means. So I'd have to agree with him. I do know from reading and experience that a stay sail is less effective on hard chined V bottom
boats than it is on a rounder bottom
boat. With the rounder bottom our one
boat would heel over a little bit and she'd really settle down. It had very little rolling motion under way with the stay sail.
From your quote I'm assuming a cat will act similar with a stay sail. I just assumed it would act more like a V bottom that didn't really heel over.
If you don't mind me asking, what
boats are you looking at?
I had a 89
Grand Banks 42 with twin 3208 Cats,a 36
Gulfstar trawler with 2 85 horse Perkins's diesels and a converted 68ft
steel fishing trawler that had a 3406 cat main and a smaller cat for a wing
engine.
Out of the 3 you could burn through the most fuel in the GB and while they're great boats I was happy when I
sold it. It was a
project and I would've liked to keep it longer but I received a great off about 6months after she was finished.
The
Gulfstar was the surprise and flat out sipped fuel and she handled every bit of
weather I sent her way. They're a real value for the
money if you're able to find one. I forget how much fuel it held but she'd easily run 700-800 miles between the pumps. On top of being spacious for the size the
engine and systems access was good too on everything but the genset.
The
steel fishing trawler was another
project that literally made it through 2 hurricanes off the Jersey shore including a direct hit from Sandy. I would've loved to have finished it and kept it. But my daughter came along and I had a offer that was quite a bit more than I had in her not counting labor. So off she went but I'm currently looking at a
Allied 40 and a Seawolf 44. But neither of them are trawlers although the Seawolf is more or less a
ketch rigged
motor sailor that needs mast's, so she's close enough lol.
Anyway good luck