[PCW] Motorsailers, was Engine-room access

[Georgs Kolesnikovs]

Malcolm Tennant wrote:

>I very much agree that the catamaran lends itself to being designed as a
>"true motor sailer". In fact I wrote a chapter in Rod Gibbons book saying
>just this. I think this was 1983 wasn't it Rod? I have since written a
>number of articles extolling the motor sailer catamaran as "the best of all
>possible worlds". I did, in fact, find a client for a motor sailer and in
>1984 the Cordova was born. Twenty knots under power and has reportedly
>sailed at 24 knots. it now has more than 100,000 nautical miles under its
>keel and is still going strong as is my belief that it is indeed the best of
>all possible worlds".

Malcolm and others--

Could you please explain what it is about the catamaran platform that 
makes it so suitable for motorsailing?

--Georgs
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Georgs Kolesnikovs
   Power Catamaran World
   http://www.powercatamaranworld.com