Hi 2bish
Thanks for the link
I saw it advertised about a week ago and have benn having a bit of a look at the ad
I have also been keeping an eye on this one as well
www.boatsalestas.com.au/sail-multihulls/easy-37-modified-catamaran/141795/
I read on on another forum about one of these that was turned over at its mooring at Oyster Cove few years ago when we had a front come through with around 70 knot winds and was later sold at auction and I wonder if this might be the same one after reading the advert
Regards Don
I've seen the Waller, and it looks like a lovely cruiser - especially for her home waters, where drying out is a huge advantage. Looks to be great value too, and if I were in the market for a cruiser I'd have looked at it already!
Yes, the east was the one that flipped - it was beautifully built, but I don't know what effect the capsize had. I know the story, but still find it hard to imagine that it was "only" 70 knots that flipped a cruising cat at mooring - maybe localised strength was greater?
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I've seen the Waller, and it looks like a lovely cruiser - especially for her home waters, where drying out is a huge advantage. Looks to be great value too, and if I were in the market for a cruiser I'd have looked at it already!
Yes, the east was the one that flipped - it was beautifully built, but I don't know what effect the capsize had. I know the story, but still find it hard to imagine that it was "only" 70 knots that flipped a cruising cat at mooring - maybe localised strength was greater?
Hi all@sea
Here at Port Huon there was a visiting boat at anchor in the bay that dragged on to another local boat on a mooring
The owners were on the anchored boat trying to sort the mess out and they said they saw 75 knots on their wind instrument (when they were looking at it) but like you said it may have been more
We had 2 boats at the time on moorings out in front of our house and they were being spun around and laid over at approx 45 degrees with bare poles with the wind coming from all directions and it was pretty scary watching it happen and from memory it lasted for around 10 to 15 minutes
There was a race on at the time from Port Huon to Cygnet and we had just come home from Church and the forecast was for 30 knots but as the boats left the start and sailed across in front of our place i said to my wife that there was bugger all breeze compared to what was forecast and i thought the forecast was wrong but 5 minutes later it hit
The blokes in the race afterwards said it sounded like a train coming and happened that quick they didn't have time to reef or drop sails
One of the 40 footers had both her sails shredded and the boat i normally crew on was laid over flat in the water and just sat there like that until it was over
Regards Don
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we had just come home from Church and the forecast was for 30 knots but as the boats left the start and sailed across in front of our place i said to my wife that there was bugger all breeze compared to what was forecast and i thought the forecast was wrong but 5 minutes later it hit
The blokes in the race afterwards said it sounded like a train coming and happened that quick they didn't have time to reef or drop sails
One of the 40 footers had both her sails shredded and the boat i normally crew on was laid over flat in the water and just sat there like that until it was over
Regards Don
When they said "pray for wind", they didn't realise you had such good connections.
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Hi 2bish
Thanks for the link
I saw it advertised about a week ago and have benn having a bit of a look at the ad
I have also been keeping an eye on this one as well
www.boatsalestas.com.au/sail-multihulls/easy-37-modified-catamaran/141795/
I read on on another forum about one of these that was turned over at its mooring at Oyster Cove few years ago when we had a front come through with around 70 knot winds and was later sold at auction and I wonder if this might be the same one after reading the advert
Regards Don
The Easy 37 looks interesting Don. I have no catamaran experience at all, how do these sail? Does the design have a good reputation?
Hi 2bish
I asked the question on the multihull section on Cruisers Forum www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f48/thoughts-on-this-cat-202751.html and the feedback has generally been positive from those who own the same or similar boats
I have a rdo on Friday so i might give Kim a call and see if i can have a look over her and see what she looks like in the flesh
Regards Don
Hi all
I went and had a look at the Easy today and she looks pretty much the same as shown in the advert
I cant really see to much wrong with her
I also called a surveyor down here and asked the question about what the procedure would be to put her in commercial survey with the aim of having her make some money and he said the first thing he would need to do is look at the build plans to see if it was feasible so i asked the broker to see if the original build plans might still be in existence
I then called the designer Peter Snell (a nice guy who was easy to talk to) and he said that there were a couple he knew of in survey but was not sure what modifications had to be carried out in order to meet the regulations
Peter was a bit perplexed as to why the bows were changed from raked to plumb (extended not cut off) when the rebuild happened as he believed it would not be an improvement on his original design
As far as the flipping over incident early in her life the broker (who watched it happen) told me she dragged her mooring in the storm into deeper water and when the mooring chain ran out of length the weight of the block dragged the bows under and she got a gust under her stern and flipped her over
We will see where we end up with this one
Regards Don
Hi Don, I was trying to imagine how it flipped, now I understand. So did you ask whether the depth of water it flipped in was sufficiently deep to avoid the rig slamming into the sea floor?
