[MHml] Juan K. favors multihulls

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Bill,

A couple of weeks ago I received the scanned image of
Juan K. interview to an Argentinean magazine (he was
born there) with the same statement. Maybe it is the
same interview.

He also supports Torben Grael's (Brasil 1 skipper -
3rd place in the Volvo) statement that he would rather
sail a multihull in the Volvo.

Luiz

> an interesting interview with Juan Kouyoumdjian (aka
Juan K.) in September Sail magazine. He's a naval
architect who designed the runaway winner (ABN One) in
Volvo Ocean Race.

> At end of article they asked: "What is future of
canting-ballast technology?"

> He replied:

> "It depends on acceptance. I could argue that a
canting-keel monohull is a very inefficient multihull.
 Imagine canting a keel to leeward and instead of
ballast you have air.  You would achieve the same
increase in righting moment in a ligter solution and
in fact you get a multihull.  Our sailing community is
divided, and choices are made on style or fashion;
otherwise we'd all be sailing multihulls"



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