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Old 10-04-2009, 04:00 AM   #29
Conall
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RE: Blue Water Capabilities?

I've always been under the impression that the sail made the boat inherently more stable by counteracting the roll. It seems that quite few designers are now offering the steadying sail as part of the "trawlers" system as a stabilizing option. The Diesel Duck line of boats utilizes the steadying sail in most of his designs and even claims the sail to be a get home system. I always thought sailboats to have a better A/B ratio than most trawlers witch adds to initial inherent stability.

Sailboats are for sure a different ride than a trawler, but sailboats seem to have more stability (not necessarily a better ride) designed into them from the drawing board vs most of the off the shelf* modern trawlers.

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