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South Carolina | A 100' single handed monster. I think we're reaching the limits of boat one person can manage.
Jake Kohl
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Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Clermont, FL, USA | is the keyboard getting too big?
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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Minnesota Jeff Peterson
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Minnesota | Please, tell me this is a Photo Shop joke! It's too much to comprehend that this thing may actually exist.
Jeff Peterson
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06/21/07 02:22 AM 06/21/07 02:22 AM |
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North-West Europe Wouter
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It is the French, they build these things for sure, no doubt about that. They have done it plenty of times in the past.
Wouter
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South Carolina Jake
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South Carolina | This is Francis Joyon's new ride. He set the single handed around the world record on a 75 foot trimaran but was shortly thereafter beaten by Ellen McArthur by a matter of a day or so. Ellen had a very custom built trimaran (around 65 or 70 feet or so I seem to remember) that was built specifically for her solo round the world voyage. After setting the West to East trans Atlantic record in his 75' trimaran and on the way home, Joyon took a nap and overslept while his autopilot malfunctioned and put him onto the rocks destroying his boat. For the last couple of years, he's been building this monster with the goal of getting the round the world record back. http://www.trimaran-idec.com/
Jake Kohl
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tampa, fl | The photo came from the SA front page. There is a write-up about the boat on the front page also. Definately not a photo-shop job.
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I got 99 problems but my beautiful wife ain't one
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Asuncion, Paraguay Luiz
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Asuncion, Paraguay | A 100' single handed monster. I think we're reaching the limits of boat one person can manage. Maybe. But a proa with the same sail area would be longer, lighter, cheaper and (probably) faster. Worth checking the smaller version at Sailing Anarchy Design Contest.
Luiz
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South Carolina Jake
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South Carolina | A 100' single handed monster. I think we're reaching the limits of boat one person can manage. Maybe. But a proa with the same sail area would be longer, lighter, cheaper and (probably) faster. Worth checking the smaller version at Sailing Anarchy Design Contest. But would it be safer in the Southern Ocean?
Jake Kohl
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Asuncion, Paraguay | A 100' single handed monster. I think we're reaching the limits of boat one person can manage. Maybe. But a proa with the same sail area would be longer, lighter, cheaper and (probably) faster. Worth checking the smaller version at Sailing Anarchy Design Contest. But would it be safer in the Southern Ocean? With a sealed mast the proa will not turtle and is expected to self right. Meanwhile the pod stays high and dry. But this is something I definitely wouldn't want to test.
Luiz
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Long Island, NY Catius
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It is the French, they build these things for sure, no doubt about that. They have done it plenty of times in the past.
True - Hats off. How come the French pretty much own the monopoly on large multihull sailing? Where are the other "large" sailing nations when it comes to this?
Thomas
Mystere 6.0
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Gainesville, FL 32607 USA dacarls
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Gainesville, FL 32607 USA | It's been a long time since the first aluminum trimaran of this same general form sailed into the Ala Wai Harbor, Hawaii unannounced: Pen Duick IV, 1969. He arrived a day ahead of the first Transpac boat, Windward Passage.
38 years- WOW!
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South Carolina Jake
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South Carolina | It's been a long time since the first aluminum trimaran of this same general form sailed into the Ala Wai Harbor, Hawaii unannounced: Pen Duick IV, 1969. He arrived a day ahead of the first Transpac boat, Windward Passage.
38 years- WOW! And now? you're just showing your age. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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