[MHml] Catamarans

[Dave Culp]

You can get Chris' book secondhand, for $10, here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0070698686/sr=8-1/qid=1157770839/ref=sr_1_1/103-3490014-0117461?ie=UTF8&s=books

Dave

On 9/8/06, Dave Howorth <Dave.Howorth at acm.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 17:40 +0000, Peter Gelinas wrote:
> > I have been lurking this site for a while, hoping to learn more about
> > cruising catamarans.
>
> Welcome!
>
> > 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.
>
> Probably the single best book is "The Cruising Multihull" by Chris
> White. Another book I like is "Multihulls for Cruising and Racing" by
> Derek Harvey.
>
> There are also a few books on catamaran racing that have some useful
> info. Depending how much you know about sailing cats, you'll learn a lot
> of useful skills much faster on a beach cat than on a big cruiser. It's
> a lot easier to understand the effects of apparent wind and of sail trim
> etc on a small boat.
>
> I don't know about an FP owners' group - have you asked FP? - but I'd
> definitely recommend joining a multihull sailing club. I don't know
> where you're based, but here in the UK we have MOCRA, for example.
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
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