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I agree , these guys had no idea
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Don't drag the upturned cat/tria fast, or into shallow water with the mast down. - derig it first, its not that hard.
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Attach lines to each connection to the hulls near the bow. Pull sternward. Sterns being flat dig into the water, bows being being pulled continue to pull up. Bows pop up into the air and it flips upright !.
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Yes you would think it could, but the stability of the cat was greater than that of the monohull tow boat and the towing boat could have capsized trying to lift the cat, the conventional way is to right the cat by putting a rope over the bottom of the boat connected to a bridle on the bows then pull it backwards sinking the sterns and eventually righting the cat. We tried this for 3 hours but the cat had too much buoyancy in the cockpit area and it could not be done.
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could the towing boat not have righted the cat with the crane on the back?
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Yes maybe but that was not an option the mast was in at least 2 pieces and the forestay broken, the bridgedeck had way too much buoyancy to turn the boat over the usual way for a cat so we tried righting it these two times unsuccessfully, had to finally use a crane back at the harbour, we could not believe how lightly the boat was damaged (apart from the rig) after towing it upside down for about 16nm.
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Undo the opposing shroud ( or simply de-rig ) throw large belts over the opposing hull - attach. Get a lot of distance (bad angle for leverage otherwise) Add 100+ horsepower, go nice and slow. you're done.
This video is the salvage of Catabatic a very fast catamaran that capsized during the Auckland to Tauranga race last week. Before all you wise ones start another round of Mono Hull vs Multihull, just think about this, at least this owner still has his boat, maybe a mono owner would not. Again to the wise ones this attempt to right the vessel was conducted by salvage experts and the righting at sea failed thus the vessel was towed to port and craned upright successfully. Any salvage that recovers the vessel with only the damage sustained during the capsize is a huge success. I was highly impressed with the high build quality of this vessel, it took an absolute hammering and came through with minimal damage (except to the mast and mainsail) to the boat, impressive.