[MHml] First Alinghi Photo

[Dave Culp]

As I recall, that discussion concluded that; when beam is constrained,
water ballast *can* be an advantage. 90' beam on a 90' LOA boat sounds
pretty "unlimited," but it is in fact constrained. Claas will have
better data (and a better memory) than I.

Dave

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Gary Pearce<gary at thepearces.com> wrote:
>
> I do recall a loooong discussion some years back here however when it
> was pretty well categorically proven that water ballast in a multihull
> was _not_ the fastest option, so maybe we won;t see that.