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Here is one definition of a performance cruiser, together with the answers to questions you may have about speed, motion, and shorthanding in these designs. The author helps you think about whether a performance cruiser is right for you.
[J/Boats Inc., Newport, RI, USA]
Water ballast is very rare in cruising boats, but for those who want to race or who like extreme performance cruisers, this article gives some idea of what advantages in speed and seaworthiness can come with water ballast.
[Van Gorkom Yacht Design, Newport, RI, USA]
The authors give detailed, wide-ranging and savvy advice on choosing a boat for serious cruising, including comments on the real costs of a used boat, geographic pricing differences, design aspects to be avoided, construction details. Includes an annotated list of boat candidates.
[Mahina Tiare Expeditions, Friday Harbor, WA, USA]
Plug in your boat′s waterline length in feet, and this page calculates your theoretical maximum hull speed in knots.
[US Sailing, Portsmouth, RI, USA]
Nothing here for today′s cruiser, but a good place to see the cutting edge in sail (read wings and foils) and hull design is going. Scroll down the Sail Craft section
[FoxxAero Marine Technologies, Victoria, BC, Canada]
Ultra Light Displacement Boats can weigh half what a conventional displacement hull does, exhibit twice the cruising speed , are easier to handle and less expensive for their size. The author talks about the downside to all this and his ideas for curing them.
[Bray Yacht Design and Research Ltd., White Rock, BC, Canada]
Velocity prediction program (VPP) software that will help you calculate polar diagrams for your boat, from which you can calculate optimum sailing angles. Proper use of polars can cut significant time off your upwind and particularly you downwind passages.
[Techsail.com, Melbourne, FL, USA]
Extensive list with good search facility. Covers just about any cruising topic. Tree and branch format for threads.
[The Sailing Company, Middletown, RI, USA]
Unmoderated forum on sail and power cruising. Lots of good advice and other resources, but you have to do some searching.
[Usenet, USA]
Unmoderated forum on various sailing topics. Some useful cruising information here, but you need to dig and you need to be selective..
[Usenet, USA]
As long as the boat is big and relatively heavy with the chainplates well outboard, your on-the-wind performance is limited.
Bob Perry
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