vanishing stability
Fellow sailors, Wondering if there is a formal word on the Stability number of the MK1. I know these things are variable based on weight, rig, sail plan etc...But wondering if there is a sense, formal...
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The Yachting Monthly magazine in the UK did a test on the Catalina 42 in March last year. They reported in detail on its stability. My recollection was that its angle of vanishing stability was 115...
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Dear Jay. Visit the RYA web-site at: - www.rya.org.uk/images/upl..._11_05.pdf Scroll down a few pages to the Catalina 42, you will see it has an AVS of 105 which is low. Any off shore boat should have...
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Interesting that the RYA places it at 105. US Sailing's cacluator estimates it at 132.7. US Sailing AVS calculator (www.sailingusa.info/cal__avs.htm) with a 13.83' beam, a 20,500# displacement, an...
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If I recall, there was an error in the RYA's reporting on the stability numbers for the C-42 MkI and MkII. There was a correction published in the Royal Yachting Monthly but the STIX data was never...
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Yes, upon David's initial response I did some digging with regard to the Yachting Monthly reports. I picked up a long discussion thread that suggests that the initial AVS was calculated using a GZ ?...
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Having spoken to windward Yachting (the UK Catalina distributor) they were most helpful in providing the correct figures for the Catalina 42. There is no doubt that the figures shown on the RYA site...
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I just got a hold of a chart from Catalina Yachts & put it on our web site, www.catalina42.org/techspec.htm#stability~~~~_/)~~~~ Norm Perron, Hull #600/2 cabin, Aphrodisiac, Marina del Rey, CA
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Norm, Mal and all, Thanks, I hadn't visited the discussion in while or would have mailed earlier. Thanks for your contribuitions. 114.3 from the factory. This is a helpful reference. Doesn't but quite...
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If you go to www.transpacificyc.org/ you will see the C42 that completed the Trans Pac last summer, Wind Dancer.Steve 642-2f TESA
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recently learned throguh US Sailing that Winddancer measured a stability of 126 as mesaured for it's ORR. I am going through the ORR certification for the Bermuda Race and will know more, and share...
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US SAILING has a calulator for many hull values - one of which is Angle of Vanishing Stability*: www.sailingusa.info/cal__avs.htm I get an vanishing angle of 130.53 Deg using the following specs for a...
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