[MHml] Coastal Cruising small cat

[Roy Mills]

At 04:51 AM 12/21/06, you wrote:
>To be fair they are covering a Wharram build at the moment.

         That is why I said modern. I find it hard to understand why 
a two issue article on building a Wharram 24 has found itself  in MM. 
Not to knock that boat, after all one has sailed around the world, 
which is more than I have done, but it is a very old design and very 
simple to build so one would think that there are different, newer 
and perhaps more complex small multihull designs more worthy of being 
featured. Charles must have his reasons I guess.


>Not necessarily modern though...
>
>Does this tend to widen the perception that production plastics are 
>upto date and homebuilt boats are old plywood deep vee designs...?

         It might, but it should not if it is to accurately cover the 
field of Multihulling, because that is not the case these days. IMHO 
that is, although the smaller the boat the more is plywood often the 
most appropriate material.

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>I'm considering considering subscribing to Ocean Racing instead this 
>year (having seen the brilliant on line edition in english)..not 
>much boat building there though!

         I have logged onto the on line version too. Fascinating.