Well I'll admit, the requirements in the previous post do sound rather challenging - some may say crazy, some stupid. Nevertheless, I would like to see how close I can get.
There are many contradictions. For a start it sounds like I want the comfort of a 10m+ cruiser from a lightweight car top boat. Deranged. Then I want a really stable platform that is also capable of easy self rescue. And a boat with less than 30cm of draft which can also make quite significant (and relatively speedy) coastal hops?
First things first - it looks like I want a multihull, all the stability stuff I want together with light weight steers in that direction. What I need to do is make sure that the ability to self rescue is not lost . Whether it is a cat, a tri, a tacking outrigger or a proa is still pretty open at this point but I suspect a cat will probably win out.
Something that will help is that I am not a purist. I like sailing, I like rowing and I even like motors too. Moreover I would be happy to use any combination of the three to get where I want to go. In fact, I want to relegate the sail rig to an assisting role so that it doesn't take over the whole boat.
Things that have inspired me include the tremendous motor-sailing Endorphin trimaran of Russell Maxwell:
The beach rescue 'Pattino' rowing catamarans of the Italian coast:
And all the various paddle/sail combos enjoyed by Sea Kayakers like:
Since the sail rig is not going to have to provide scintillating light weather performance it is going to be small, low and when it is not needed I want it to disappear completely.
The only thing to do now is try and develop my appalling sketching skills and provide some indication of what I want to build in the next post.
There are many contradictions. For a start it sounds like I want the comfort of a 10m+ cruiser from a lightweight car top boat. Deranged. Then I want a really stable platform that is also capable of easy self rescue. And a boat with less than 30cm of draft which can also make quite significant (and relatively speedy) coastal hops?
First things first - it looks like I want a multihull, all the stability stuff I want together with light weight steers in that direction. What I need to do is make sure that the ability to self rescue is not lost . Whether it is a cat, a tri, a tacking outrigger or a proa is still pretty open at this point but I suspect a cat will probably win out.
Something that will help is that I am not a purist. I like sailing, I like rowing and I even like motors too. Moreover I would be happy to use any combination of the three to get where I want to go. In fact, I want to relegate the sail rig to an assisting role so that it doesn't take over the whole boat.
Things that have inspired me include the tremendous motor-sailing Endorphin trimaran of Russell Maxwell:
The beach rescue 'Pattino' rowing catamarans of the Italian coast:
And all the various paddle/sail combos enjoyed by Sea Kayakers like:
Since the sail rig is not going to have to provide scintillating light weather performance it is going to be small, low and when it is not needed I want it to disappear completely.
The only thing to do now is try and develop my appalling sketching skills and provide some indication of what I want to build in the next post.
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