tropical storm in a 44 Lagoon cat sailboat svlazzarone.com

that's not a storm, just a light breeze

If you don't have to reef your main, it's not a storm. Tropical or otherwise. :)

ahem, where is the storm?

Not a tropical storm. Someone should read their Beaufort scale again!!

This was a nice breeze, not a storm. And OK the cat is more stable compare to a Mono Hul.. Bud ... in a storm.. you wil run out the storm with a cat. With a mono Hul you fight it. And the upraise on a mono is 93 degrees. On a Cat and he go,s down at 90 degrees.. your gone. Thats the problem with Multi huls. So those sailers who possess a multi hul .. Are good weather sailers.Not realy sailers,bud braggarts.. LOOK how i,m dooing. And this was a breeze that run out ther own boaster!

WTF? please change the title of this video-it is NOT a tropical storm, and I agree with everyone else that your cat should be doing way over 9kt in this nice breeze.

@KallyJones the cat is always more stable the a mono hull.

Do you feel there are any safety(pitchpole) issues with sailing a cat in rough weather vs. a monohull? I ask b/c I'm shopping for a bigger boat and am trying to decide what to buy next. At some point I'll retire and that next boat will be the one I take off on so I'm trying to get as much input as possible. Thank you.

@salgiron I haven't heard of too many multi-hulls taking on the Capes, storm or no.....the first solo round the world ended badly for the multihulls....(got beat by an old teak monohull). I hear they are real stable...either upside down or otherwise....

In a storm, the fatty there, could not even afford to keep his baseball cap on, let alone make a comment from three meters distance.. No rain nor high seas. I guess when you are an idiot on a 44, you can post stupid crap pretending it is an adventure. I want to see them on the straight of Magallan. Crossing tierra de fuego...

Tropical Storm? This is no storm. The seas in that kind of wind would be not much above 6 to 7 feet even taking the height of eye into consideration. This may be the beginning of a gale but it's not a storm. Storm conditions would be with sustained winds of over 50 knots and the seas would be running much higher - 20 feet or more after about 4 to 5 hours. I've been in storm conditions and believe me you can't even hear yourself speak let alone hear someone else. No, this is no storm.

@SkyyCaptainn I agree. In the other hand it is a Lagoon which are notoriously slow sailers. Most cats should do better than half wind speed irrespective of waterline. In 30 knots of wind I would see at least 14 knots in a 40 foot cat.

@PdxSailor1 No we did not get a hull out of the water, but Vic thought it was close!

what do you mean you flew a hull? did a hull really lift out of the water in those conditions?

Ha Ha ...thats not a storm and if you think thats a big sea just type big sea on You Tube search...By the way, normal to strong trades in the Indian Ocean give 3 to 5 metre waves for weeks at a time...you would be running with just a staysail in 30 to 38 knts of wind app. (well over 40 T)

@ZipSnipe when you take into account that the cat is 26' wide with 5' free board and the camera lens is at least 12' above the waterline it makes the seas look not so bad on film.

I would call that more like 2-4 ft seas

panamaawww?

check out my new vidieo, crossing the gulf stream in Lazzarone and crossing the gulf stream in Magnitude 1 &2. Magnitude is my spare boat.

Sweet.