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Forum: Multihull Sailboats 07-08-2023, 14:03
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Gday John

Many multis get blown around lots - that is because they have teeny little foils that work well at high speeds, but then when we are faffing around at low speeds they fail to generate...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 15-07-2023, 05:14
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I really get the point Jim Brown makes about shallow water seaworthiness. I love the way my 38ft cat can lie on the sand in a shallow lagoon and when the tide comes in she has absolutely no design...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 12-12-2022, 12:23
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I would very rarely (Never) use nails when I could use chipboard screws to pull together pieces for gluing. Using your cordless drill with its torque setting adjusted just right, allows for a deft...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 07-11-2022, 22:40
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Douglas fir for the stringers and ply sounds good. The rot resistance is mollified by epoxying the entire interior with three rolled coats of clear epoxy after construction. In Australia I would...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 09-10-2022, 13:37
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Yeah nice boat.

I had a look over her about 25 years ago. She had a Ruggerini in her and she had a 4 bladed prop. My wife and I crawled around inside her and were impressed. I would have bought...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 06-09-2022, 19:56
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Whilst I won't disagree that the majority of cats made now would fit in with your generalisation, of course there are exceptions. I spent 1.5 years designing a really nice (well I think it is anyway)...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 03-07-2022, 00:18
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Gday Cav

Totally agree with the furlers. Go the heady first, probably on a Searunner the staysail next and then the Code 0.

I reckon you can get some good stuff secondhand. My furler was...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 02-07-2022, 16:41
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Looks like a great cat - a bargain from my perspective. Shame such a good boat is not worth much more.

As for your issues Rossad

I like a Code 0 for running from say a beam reach to a 3/4 or...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-06-2022, 22:41
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Gday Rossad,

Searunner lover but cat owner here. I think the mule is old hat. To upgrade the Searunner rig I would be thinking a nice tri-radial 110% genoa on a furler. Also a nice flattish...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 11-05-2022, 01:56
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Gday Rossad

Can you give me some info about your Davis wind instrument. What are you using to read the data from the sensor? Does it work well?

cheers

Phil
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 18-04-2022, 04:47
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Thanks Mark. I like the idea if using a small float for the end of the chain. I will copy that on my boat. I also ended up with a windlass. I have an electric one and found that on my lightish 38ft...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 21-02-2022, 00:54
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I am not having a dig at Searunners per se. A sailing friend of mine found much the same occurence on a much later designed Aussie trimaran of 10.6m LOA with an inboard diesel. At about 15 knots the...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 20-02-2022, 12:09
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

In my role as a Science teacher, I try to keep up to date with innovative thinking. Biomimicry, was a great book that tells us that we can learn huge amounts from nature, but I am sceptical about...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 09-12-2021, 02:39
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Gday Migizi

I was surfing through Youtube and came across a video by John Marples. In it he uses a Searunner 34 to do research on Flettner rotors. To truck the boat he saws it into three. He goes...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 16-11-2021, 02:55
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

That's a pretty exhaustive refit!
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 31-10-2021, 23:41
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Just in case it is interesting for the OP too.

I made my tunnel tents from 6 metre long sections of gal pipe. I bent them in the fork of a tree and used a marked out semi circle in chalk on the...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 31-10-2021, 19:22
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I am not sure. Like Cav I think a drill is the best way to check. I would really like to see the interior veneers of the ply in each area. Only after I had checked lots of black wood cores would I...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 31-10-2021, 02:25
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

That is a lot of black wood.
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-10-2021, 00:53
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I would be thinking of butt blocks on the deck and underwing panels inside the wing and maybe under the wing. I like the idea of feathering the edges. I would probably go for just the glass on the...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 27-10-2021, 12:56
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Gday Long John

Last weekend I had my cat on the slip. She is strip cedar for thew curved hulls and ply for the bulkheads and decks (with a foam cabin and a Duflex aft deck)

I had an issue with...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 27-10-2021, 01:24
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

On reflection, string lines are the go.

Make a temporary stand at each bow and stern, like builders do when setting out. Measure up the same amount from each bow and stern say 1000mm and set the...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 27-10-2021, 01:10
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Oh as for twisting, she almost certainly isn't. But you will have to get her exactly level when rebuilding. For me to check I would set up string lines over the float bows and sterns. Check they are...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 27-10-2021, 01:04
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Congrats on the Searunner. I am interested in if she is a 34. A quick run if the tape would be good. Don't 34s have a double and one single instead of two singles?

A couple of thoughts. As for...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 09-09-2021, 23:31
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

Long John is a real Searunner owner so his opinion has lots of weight. I am a Searunner lover and plan owner (31) who built a cat for himself.
My 38ft cat is about the same weight as a 37 (4000kg)...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 08-09-2020, 02:58
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Posted By catsketcher
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I remember reading your story in "The Case for the Cruising Trimaran" and also a magazine detailing your larger Seaclipper tri. How you could quickly build a Searunner 37 as a 19 year old has always...
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