[MHml] Catamarans (seagull strikers)

[Clifford Bradford]

Is the term "seagull striker" a European thing? I've always thought of 
them as "pelican strikers"? BTW there was a sweet article on this very 
topic about the all carbon forebeam arrangement (dolphin and pelican 
errr... seagull strikers) on the Gunboat 48.

On some smaller boats (Tornadoes, VX40 and I think the Firebirds) there 
is no strut the strikers simply connect a short distance up the forestay 
which messes up your ability to roller furl and splits the forestay into 
two (i.e. the tension's not the same throughout) but ti is dead sexy.

Cliff

Chad Greene wrote:
> Thanks Tom,
> The pictures are indeed "worth a thousand words".
> Chad
>
> Tom Henry wrote:
>
>   
>> Chad...
>>
>> FWIW there was a nice solution implemented by a UK builder for his Woods 
>> Strider design -- he simply used two striker posts instead of one - 
>> separated by enough distance to accommodate his furler drum/gear. Wicked 
>> (yes we still say that here in New England) slick!
>>
>> I posted two pix I dug up from my archives to a temp location here...
>> http://www.tomhenry.us/tbs3/meta_c123/index123c.php?id=30&show=id
>>
>> HTH,
>> TomH
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