[MHml] Warp Speed

[Paul Nudd]

I think Nick Parkyn moved to Canada.
Paul Nudd

> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:07:40 +0900
> From: harryproa at gmail.com
> To: multihulls at steamradio.com
> Subject: Re: [MHml] Warp Speed
> 
> G'day,
> The boat was way over built (25mm H100 foam in the bottom which was
> only 300mm or so wide.  It was not a stepped hull, but had a flat
> bottom tapering into a conventional bow.  It was very wide, very big
> rig, not much bow buoyancy and the owner got bored with it pretty
> early on.
> 
> No idea where it is now.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Dec 8, 2007 12:24 PM, Roy Mills <rsirfj at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > One more dip into the past, espcially for our Australian friends. May June
> > 1996, an article about a revolutionary design of spectacular performance,
> > according to the designer Nick Parkyn., An 18foot, 5.5 metre cat with a wing
> > mast and a stepped planeing hull which due to it's new design is better than
> > the round bilge form on all points of sail.  He writes very well but I note
> > that in actual comparisons he quotes proudly that it is faster than an F24,
> > but the F 24 is not all that fast a boat, despite being bigger and a
> > trimaran.
> >
> >     So what happened to prevent this paragon from taking over the beach cat
> > world?
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