[MHml] Juan K. favors multihulls

[Charles Magnan]

Amazing perspacity!

-Charles

--- sysfx <sysfx at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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