Some monohullers have bio-adapted by having their windward leg shorten and their leeward leg slowly lengthen. Then there’s the whole heeling thingie, which also includes everything sliding off the counters below. Only sailboats and perverts on benches slide sideways towards you-while pretending they don’t. Leeway is another concept I’m soooooooo over! Trains don’t make leeway-why boats? Ditto cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Speaking of windward-is anyone else fed up with all this zigzagging business? I mean, really, in this day and age? All my life I’ve been tacking this way and that-never actually going where I want to go… just eventually getting so bored that I claim that wherever I am is where I want to be and, of course, that I’m a Zen Master! Multihulls can be a good family/race option-Įspecially foldable ones like F27 by Corsair. And while reefs don’t grow fast, I’ve had a couple outpace me to windward. In the Bahamas, of course, I love to race the conks. Yes, I anchor often-no, it hardly affects my hull speed at all. On the positive side, most monohullers don’t toss their garbage overboard offshore-who wants to stare at their own trash for days? That’s right, I’ve been passed by glaciers, for gosh sakes! I throw over the helm, cast off the jib sheet, have a leisurely cockpit lunch, straighten the wheel and sheet back in. My monohull is so slow I have to factor in continental drift on ocean passages-because the continents have moved so damn much. Multihullers call monohulls monomarans-because of the notorious debilitating psychological condition of their skippers known as ‘pathological hull envy.’ Sad, right? I mean, seriously, what else is intentionally made heavy other than steamrollers and traditional sailboats… both of which can barely get out of their own way in terms of speed. Both of the other vessel types are for idiots, plain and simple. Whichever of the above you prefer, I agree with you.
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