Interesting Catamaran on "shock absorbers"

Post by **Abuthen** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:13 pm

Aussie built, still in prototype but had a sea trial ...

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Looks interesting ...

Nude up · Post by **Nude up** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:20 pm

Looks like more to go wrong

Post by **frozenpod** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:41 pm

Looks great.

Only problem is the deck is a long way from the water.

Post by **hornet** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:54 pm

Weird as ! I thought lower to the center of gravity was always more stable in boat building circles, dunno if I want to be in that thing in a 4 or 6 meter swell off bermie or Portland ?

Post by **frozenpod** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:40 am

Lower CG is more stable but you also need to consider the centre of buoyancy.

Based on what I see I think it could be designed to be quite ok, motors are down low on the pontoons and I would assume fuel tanks would be too.

BTW love how they deliberately trim the standard cat roll out excessively whilst corning.

Fishn104 · Post by **Fishn104** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:44 am

You be stuffed if one side fails!! Imagine that though lol

Post by **frozenpod** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:51 am

Shocks and springs are pretty reliable.

Post by **Basti** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:12 am

The hydraulics are more likely to fail than the shocks/Springs. But its still a great concept

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