Extreme 40s

Seawind Cats - A rock solid cruising cat.....  Excellent charter cat too.

Check out the SeaWind, virtual tour of there boats......  Some very cool photography.  Click and hold on the image and move the mouse arong for a 360 degree view.

Seawind 1000 - http://www.seawindcats.com/index.pl?page=22

Seawind 1160 - http://www.seawindcats.com/index.pl?page=141

Seawind 1200 - http://www.seawindcats.com/index.pl?page=156

 

Here's a pic Dennis.....

From previous discusions on other forums, the concensis is that the V40 is quicker.....  Would need a match up though to be sure.

Its kinda like comparing a track car to a rally car mind - I wouldn't think the D35 would cope on anything but the lakes they were designed for, round the cans even slightly offshore would be pretty scary...

Great to see so much coverage of the VX40's!

From the official website:

with big cats come big crashes

 

Originally posted by hurricane does anyone know of any pictures of basilica sailing at weymouth speed week with 4 trapezes? i know there was a photo boat following her

The Daily Sail has an article and video clip. They only reached 20kts sadly which is something you could do on your 5.9 with the kite up and a decent breeze. The main feature of the article seems to be about the gymnastics of getting and staying on the wire. As the VX40 is a non trap boat, its sides are rounded and smooth and evrey time the windward hull touched down the slowing effect was to throw all trapesers forward. Solution was a "reaching line" to stop one of the four flying forward and everyone else held onto him!