Thai Mk4 cat

http://bearfacemedia.co.uk/thaiIV.aspx

Lovely piece of film.

Interesting to compare the Thai to the Nacras on the Multihull forum.

Alan Williams over on the cvrda site may well know of some - he is the owner of a Shark, the 20' B Class version. The concept was used for the early C Class Hellcat series which raced for the Little America's Cup, too.

Originally posted by Max McCarthy Are there any of these still about

I can remember Alan Williams sailing a Thai mk 4 at a cvrda event at Roadford. I think frightening is the best description, especially if your boat was near - the speed difference was such that you didn't have much time to keep clear!

I can remember the Thai Mk4 back in the first half of the sixties; there were three of them in my club. Being a very young sprog I never got to sail in one, the guys that did took racing them very seriously (and themselves too, I think). But the word was that they were very easy to 'twist', which I think meant putting the hulls out of vertical alignment. They certainly seemed to need an awful lot of maintenance in that direction. But on the water they were bloody fast!