[MHml] Catamarans

[Alan Christoffersen]

Hello Peter,

I have a 35 footer from FP (for sale) but have had it for 6 years, you are
welcome to contact me off line if you need som answers

Cheers

Alan Christoffersen 

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[mailto:multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com] På vegne af Peter Gelinas
Sendt: 7. september 2006 19:41
Til: multihulls at steamradio.com
Emne: Re: [MHml] Catamarans

Dear members

I have been lurking this site for a while, hoping to learn more about
cruising catamarans.

Unfortunately I don't seem to know enough to even understand the relevance
of much of the discussions. Terminology such as biplane rigs, dolfin
smackers, seagull *****'s? are quite unknown to me. I seem to understand
that most of you design, build or race your own multihulls. That is not my
objective.

I recently purchased a 10 year old Fontaine Pajot 42'. My objective is to
slowly cruise the Med (Portugal to Turkey) in as much comfort and with as
much room for family and friends as possible. This boat, which I have
learned from previous posts most of you probably find ugly, suits my purpose
perfectly.

I would like to learn more about the terminology, the rigging, the sailing
of my boat. For example, I will need a new mainsail soon, and I would love
to know if there are better options than the company recomended to me (
Rolly Tasker ). I would like to have the rigging and the routing of the
control lines looked at by someone with experience in these boats. I would
like to learn how to rig the spinnaker .... etc.

If any of you can recommend some books, websites etc. geared to the typical
cruiser rather than the builder/racer, please pass them along. If anyone out
there knows of a F.P. owners group, I'd like to know about that too. If any
of you have experience with this boat, I love to hear that too.

Thanks in advance
Peter


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