Adventures at Sea

Vessel Name: Price & Quantity
Vessel Make/Model: Stilletto 31 sailing catamaran
Hailing Port: Orient YC NY
Crew: Casey Mulligan/Scott Klodowski/RussTurk
30 May 2020 | Long Island Sound
30 May 2020 | Long Island Sound
27 May 2020 | Approaching Atlantic City NJ
27 May 2020 | Approaching Atlantic City NJ
26 May 2020 | Chincoteague VA
26 May 2020 | Chincoteague VA
26 May 2020 | Chincoteague VA
26 May 2020 | Chincoteague VA
26 May 2020 | Chesapeake
24 May 2020 | Hampton drying marina
23 May 2020 | Hampton CA
22 May 2020 | Colonial Beach VA
21 May 2020 | Los Angeles airports
30 May 2019
30 May 2019
30 May 2019
29 May 2019
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30 May 2020 | Long Island Sound

NYC to Orient NY

An amazing day of sailing today. Starting at the Statue of Liberty up the East River through the city. We reached the along Island sound with 10-20 knots of breeze south. Boat speed was 8-15 knots making the 80 miles up the sound exciting. Beautiful seaside homes and scenery.

30 May 2020 | Long Island Sound

NYC to Orient NY

An amazing day of sailing today. Starting at the Statue of Liberty up the East River through the city. We reached the along Island sound with 10-20 knots of breeze south. Boat speed was 8-15 knots making the 80 miles up the sound exciting. Beautiful seaside homes and scenery.

28 May 2020

New York Here we are!!

Left Atlantic City early morning and had excellent wind out of the south at 10-15 knots. We covered 93 miles in 11 hours top speed was 16.6 knots. Fun sailing and glad to be in NYC. We blew up the spinnaker halyard and shrimped the code zero 18 miles from the city. Came in with the blast reacher doing 9-14 knots. Spotty fog but great to get ihete before dark.

28 May 2020

New York Here we are!!

Left Atlantic City early morning and had excellent wind out of the south at 10-15 knots. We covered 93 miles in 11 hours top speed was 16.6 knots. Fun sailing and glad to be in NYC. We blew up the spinnaker halyard and shrimped the code zero 18 miles from the city. Came in with the blast reacher doing 9-14 knots. Spotty fog but great to get ihete before dark.

27 May 2020 | Approaching Atlantic City NJ

Foggy motor sailing

Two days of mostly motoring with some sailing. Lots of fog with less than 200 yards visibility. Rather chilly and wet the wind chill was in the 50’s. Burr!!!

27 May 2020 | Approaching Atlantic City NJ

Foggy motor sailing

Two days of mostly motoring with some sailing. Lots of fog with less than 200 yards visibility. Rather chilly and wet the wind chill was in the 50’s. Burr!!!

Getting a little bumpy.

26 May 2019
Building sea and wind will continue for the next few days Tuesday will be the peak. Catamarans love bean reaching and running meaning the wind at 90 degrees to 160 degrees from the bow. However they don't to real well upwind. The two challenges cats have are slipping sideways and pounding. Side slippage is due to the lack of a deep keel like monohulls. Some higher performance cats have dagger boards that perform the same benefits of a keel preventing side slipping and converting it into forward progress. Fortunately Force has dagger boards aiding in better upwind performance.
As for pounding, there are two hulls connected with a deck. Bow wakes combine between the two hulls and the deck this often coupled with the crest of a wave slaps the underside of the deck causing a pounding action. The greater this deck height from the sea the less pounding. But with large enough seas the pounding will happen.

Force does have a decent deck clearance but still is subject to pounding when going upwind in seas greater then 8 feet and winds over 15 knots.

Tuesday we expect 22 knots of breeze and seas to 10 feet. We will do what we can minimize the pounding.
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Delivery of Casey's 31' Stiletto Catamaran from Colonial Beach VA to Orient NY.
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