... I didn't say "Never get wet", rather that getting wet should not be part of the expectation. I have been out in wind and waves on bays (not open ocean) in...
If you pick your days it is possible to stay warm and dry. Up here that would limit you to about 15 minutes in August. If you have made it this far without...
... If this is addressed to me, you're wrong. Slider's been out in 30 knot winds, in conditions in which even my biggest boats would have been wet, driving to...
Congrats, Ray, if yuo are staying as dry as suggested. I'm rather of the opinion that if you take your boat out in the main channel of the SF Bay on any summer...
I am sitting here in a puddle of water, my feet are wet in my runners, and my hands are cold. All I did was ride my bicycle home. Sailing in this craap is not...
That is good Ray, I am pleased it is working for you. Out in the Straight of Juan de Fuca ( part of the Salish Sea ) we can encounter every wave pattern...
... I hope I never do. A boat that can keep you dry in any conditions is a remarkably high standard. I wonder if any open boats can measure up to it. Slider...
Yeah, I don't think I'd be dumb enough to take Slider out there except in the most settled of weather. It's probably not a good place for small open boats in...
... I think Ray would agree that you don't want to take about with the Slider configuration into conditions where it might capsize or take green water over...
I'll have to back up Ray on this. One thing, there are fewer of those summer afternoons with a good ebb flowing. I'm not talking about a calendar summer,...
It might be wise to observe that during the summer, the temperature difference between San Francisco and Sacramento is the rule of thumb predictor for wind...
Lew, the definition for "dry" that I would use is that the helmsman doesn't get wet, unless it's raining. As I said, the only time in the two years that...
...  It's a wonderful quality and the stories are indeed impressive - and let me clear, I don't doubt them, this isn't sarcastic.  You're probably right...
What Chris said about the temperature difference. 20 miles across the Straight are the Olympic mountains in WA. They have a lot of snow on them. Over here the...
Lew, I'm not sure what you think I overstated-- could you clarify? Slider is not just dry in "calm conditions." She's dry in conditions that would have been...
... How much of that is a result of the Urban Heat Island Effect? Exacerbated by a slow down of winds? Temperatures within Sacramento can be as much as 10° F+...
... I don't think you overstated it. I've watched your videos (thanks for posting them) and looked at your design, and I think you accurately describe why it...
... Uh oh, Lew-- you're giving me scope. But to answer your question, I'd speculate that in the first place, a cat is more comfortable than a monohull, as a...
... Just because most modern monohulls have poor roll damping, and apparently all that you have been on, does not mean that that is true of all. I have been...
From: rhaldridge knobmaker@... ... LOL ... ... Sure, though I expect there are special cases. But as a broad statement, sure. But the...
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... How about the Hawiaian twin canoe cats? Some oceanic proa canoe types might fit the bill too - except they're not cats. Line-steering is an exception...
... Me too. I don't know if you remember, but I started discussing the idea a long time before I started drawing, on this group and others. I searched for...
The way I see it if you don't get a little wet in a boat you have not found out its limits or it is going way to slow in quiet water. Personaly I like a bit of...
Yeah, I know a guy who doesn't think it's really sailing until you're heeled over to 30 degrees, so he doesn't think catamarans are really sailboats. But he's...
