[MHml] Catamarans

[Flint Stults]

Hello I have been following the emails here for short
while and have not heard much on trimarans. I owned a
31 Elizabethan sloop, and cruised Caribbean when I met
some multihull nuts. I have not looked at sail boats
the same way. I was a dive guide aboard a 75' Peter
Spronk design named palau, a 16-20 plus boat, and one
of my surfing bros had a trimaran named "Trisel".
Newick design that his father built. lost touch with
him over 10 years ago. I have however noticed he and
his new tri on a web sight."Trisel-2," designed and
built by himself, Wayne Randal. I my self want to
build one. Was wondering if any one has done so and
could give any lessons learned from building with west
systems epoxy. "Trisel-2" can be seen on
bestofusvi.com day sailing charters. Newicks are very
fast and they can be seen on his web site
dicknewick.com check it out.
                  Cheers Flint

--- Alan Christoffersen <alan at insatech.com> wrote:

> 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 
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com
> [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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