[MHml] low floatation floats (tri float designed for lift or minimum wetted surface?)

Paul Nudd multihulls at steamradio.com
Fri Jan 4 23:07:16 EST 2002


Yeah, just watch a big guy trying to sail a hobie 14 - the hulls don't have enough buoyancy for hull flying - it just buries the lee hull deeper!
PN

Joseph Oster wrote:

> Displacement, with crew!
>
> You're right, a huge difference on a small boat like this.  Two crew with a
> little gear could result in 1000 lbs. displacement, so a 100% ama should
> displace that much as its deck becomes awash.
>




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